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    I Am A Lego Detective
    jdettmann
    • Mar 21, 2017
    • 3 min

    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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    Roll With It
    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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    Lego, Lego, Can’t Hold It Back Any More
    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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    20 Things I Should Probably Have Explained To The New Babysitter
    jdettmann
    • Apr 7, 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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    Games for Rainy Days
    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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    The Trials of Motherhood
    jdettmann
    • Oct 2, 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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    What’s Mine Is Mine and What’s Yours Is Mine Too
    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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    Ages Two And Up
    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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    What I Learned on My Holidays
    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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    Degree Of Difficulty
    jdettmann
    • Jul 24, 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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    Humpty Dumpty Had A Great Downfall
    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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    There Are People With Games Of Thrones And Stories To Tell
    jdettmann
    • Jul 9, 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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    Dear Jess: Sleep-Tricycling
    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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    She Is Sixteen, Going On Seventeen (Months)
    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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    What I’ve Liked This Week: Trapped Indoors By The Rain Edition
    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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    What A Lot Of Carry-on
    jdettmann
    • Dec 1, 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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    Come Fly With Me
    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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    Being One, Alphabetically
    jdettmann
    • Nov 6, 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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    Do Yourself A Favour
    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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    Down With Diversity
    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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