I Am A Lego Detective
But I’m confused, because although I think that’s what I said, what he seems to have heard is, ‘I am a Lego Detective. I can find any...
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jdettmann
- Sep 2, 2015
- 3 min
Roll With It
When we stayed in Perth last Christmas, housesitting for friends,  I noticed a box in the laundry that had ‘Who Gives A Crap’ printed on...
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jdettmann
- Jun 4, 2015
- 3 min
Lego, Lego, Can’t Hold It Back Any More
For about a year we have had, shoved into the cupboard in the playroom where no-one ever goes because it houses the vacuum cleaner, a...
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jdettmann
- Apr 8, 2015
- 2 min
20 Things I Should Probably Have Explained To The New Babysitter
When Garnet says he wants to wear a dress, he means it. Unless he is talking about a T-shirt, which I have taken to calling dresses in an...
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jdettmann
- Mar 5, 2014
- 2 min
Games for Rainy Days
Others are more prosaic. Take ‘Molly Drops Her Phone’. In this game, May Blossom is Molly. Molly takes my phone, puts it in her handbag...
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jdettmann
- Oct 3, 2013
- 2 min
The Trials of Motherhood
He wasn’t a bad baby to begin with, but about six months ago I began to hear tales from his mother about various crimes and misdemeanours...
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jdettmann
- Aug 28, 2013
- 2 min
What’s Mine Is Mine and What’s Yours Is Mine Too
Every Tuesday, she will go to a fantastic home daycare, which is, happily, run by my parents’ neighbour. She will be one of five small...
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jdettmann
- Nov 16, 2012
- 1 min
Ages Two And Up
Are you aged two (and up)? Are you bored? Have you got no-one to play with but your own shadow? Try some of the new games May Blossom has...
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jdettmann
- Aug 21, 2012
- 4 min
What I Learned on My Holidays
1. You have to stay somewhere as good or better than home. My very clever friend Other Jess once told me this, and I think she is right....
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jdettmann
- Jul 25, 2012
- 2 min
Degree Of Difficulty
Oh for the days when the in-seat phone was all the entertainment she needed. In about four hours we are heading to the airport to fly for...
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jdettmann
- Jul 15, 2012
- 1 min
Humpty Dumpty Had A Great Downfall
Is it just the hair? On Play School Humpty’s hair is usually styled with a centre part, but the toy’s hair just wants to go to one side....
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jdettmann
- Jul 10, 2012
- 3 min
There Are People With Games Of Thrones And Stories To Tell
Wild scenes: May Blossom out of control in the moshpit. Tip her over, pour her out. We’ve just returned from the Play School Concert. If...
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jdettmann
- Apr 17, 2012
- 1 min
Dear Jess: Sleep-Tricycling
Here’s the first in a new occasional series in which I will ask myself questions and then reply. I’ll be my own agony aunt. Today’s...
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jdettmann
- Mar 21, 2012
- 3 min
She Is Sixteen, Going On Seventeen (Months)
May Blossom loves to play. Anything that involves chasing, shrieking and creating mayhem gets her seal of approval. Yesterday she and her...
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jdettmann
- Mar 1, 2012
- 1 min
What I’ve Liked This Week: Trapped Indoors By The Rain Edition
Wearing my new spectacles: They make me look like Colin Firth in A Single Man. The ladies are going to swoon. Watching May Blossom’s...
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jdettmann
- Dec 2, 2011
- 2 min
What A Lot Of Carry-on
The two suitcases are packed — beautifully, if I do say so myself — using the rolling technique. I am a fairly crap clothes folder, so it...
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jdettmann
- Nov 30, 2011
- 1 min
Come Fly With Me
Did you know that today is International Fifteen-Minute Nap Day? I didn’t either, until May Blossom informed me. It’s some sort of...
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jdettmann
- Nov 7, 2011
- 2 min
Being One, Alphabetically
B Blueberries: why not allowed to eat unlimited quantities? C Cat: for kissing. D Doors, slamming thereof: why so annoying to parents? E...
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jdettmann
- Oct 28, 2011
- 2 min
Do Yourself A Favour
This morning, between baking four huge chocolate cakes and dealing with a toddler suffering from what I thought was fear of the noise the...
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jdettmann
- Oct 26, 2011
- 1 min
Down With Diversity
Where are your friends? If this is some sort of sock conspiracy to make me lose my tiny mind and turn to the cooking sherry before nine...
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