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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...
jdettmann
Mar 21, 20173 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Sep 2, 20153 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Jun 4, 20153 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Apr 8, 20152 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Mar 5, 20142 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Oct 3, 20132 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Aug 28, 20132 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Nov 16, 20121 min read
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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....
jdettmann
Aug 21, 20124 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Jul 25, 20122 min read
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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....
jdettmann
Jul 15, 20121 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Jul 10, 20123 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Apr 17, 20121 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Mar 21, 20123 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Mar 1, 20121 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Dec 2, 20112 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Nov 30, 20111 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Nov 7, 20112 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Oct 28, 20112 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Oct 26, 20111 min read
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