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Pining For The Fjords
I’m doing that thing I always do when I come back from new and wonderful, and I try to transport the lifestyle. When H and I went to...
jdettmann
Oct 10, 20163 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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Ten Years? You Get Less For Murder!
I settled on going as a snake charmer. I do know that’s not an actual carnival or circus thing. I didn’t dress as an Indian sitting on a...
jdettmann
Apr 1, 20153 min read
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My Wedding Advice
My most excellent friends Nic and Wilf are getting married today! So, in their honour, I present my top ten pieces of wedding day advice....
jdettmann
Nov 24, 20123 min read
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Talking Turkey
Actually, this year the game of Move The Tables From The Verandah To The Garden And Back Again Thrice As The Weather Changes was knocked...
jdettmann
Nov 22, 20122 min read
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Lunch Of The Week: Mushroom Barley Soup With Grilled Feta Toast
Better a terrible photo than none at all, that’s what I always say. I couldn’t put my spoon down long enough to take a photo with two...
jdettmann
May 14, 20123 min read
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What I’ve Liked This Week: Learning to Be On Holiday Edition
Swimming in an ocean rock pool. I am a bit slow, clearly, but I have finally discovered a place that has all the nice seawater of the...
jdettmann
Apr 14, 20122 min read
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My Kitchen’s Adequate: Or How I Resisted The Title ‘Salad Days’
Anyway, My Kitchen Rules is a cooking competition, and last night the competitors each had to choose a dish and cook it in ninety...
jdettmann
Mar 23, 20122 min read
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And Finally, Monsieur, A Wafer-Thin Mint.
As you can see, this is a very ordinary photograph of some bacon in a bain marie. Why would anyone put such a bad picture on their blog,...
jdettmann
Mar 16, 20121 min read
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Is Going Out Tonight Worth It?: A Statistical Analysis
I bought the tickets a few months ago on a whim, because H loves Bonnie Prince Billy, who is a grumpy-looking, balding, blond bearded...
jdettmann
Mar 5, 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 I’ve Liked This Week: Sleep Training Edition
Here's a picture of some sort of spotty cat. H took it. I don't know how it's relevant to this post. Can't you draw some kind of...
jdettmann
Feb 20, 20122 min read
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What I’ve Liked This Week: Fremantle Edition
Wearing sandals, thongs, or plastic Melissa shoes. Looking at the photograph ‘Nat and the Girls’ by my clever friend John Witzig,...
jdettmann
Feb 9, 20121 min read
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Cabin Fever
Have you seen this website, all about cabins, and this one, about woodsy hipster life? I am a bit obsessed with both right now. It’s...
jdettmann
Feb 2, 20122 min read
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Summer’s Blood Was In It
The reason for the subterfuge is that since blackberries are a terrible pest in these parts, and you are supposed to keep them away by...
jdettmann
Jan 30, 20123 min read
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Highly Commended
The Show is a two-day affair, Friday and Saturday, and a celebration of all things agricultural. It is also, in its own way and perhaps...
jdettmann
Jan 28, 20123 min read
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A New Year, A New Way To Eat Potato Chips
More guests arrived and three cats became four; an eleven-dollar blow-up paddling pool provided at least twelve dollars worth of fun; I...
jdettmann
Jan 2, 20122 min read
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A Very ‘To The Lighthouse’ Christmas
The place was gone to rack and ruin. Only the Lighthouse beam entered the rooms for a moment, sent its sudden stare over bed and wall in...
jdettmann
Dec 20, 20111 min read
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Early Christmas
All I wanted for Christmas this year was the chance to watch my grandmother gaze at May Blossom. I got it. This picture was taken by H...
jdettmann
Dec 16, 20111 min read
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Fly Away Home
Perhaps someone could explain to my eyelids why I am so damn shattered then. Maybe it’s because on our splendid holiday we visited the...
jdettmann
Dec 15, 20113 min read
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