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Car Seat Shopping For The Hormonally Deranged

jdettmann

Nov 23, 20123 min read

Car Seat Shopping For The Hormonally Deranged

One of the many dangerous roads of the world that are all out to get my children, according to my pregnancy-addled brain. Have you ever...

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jdettmann

Nov 22, 20122 min read

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...

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Nov 19, 20122 min read

If You Can’t Say Something Nice…

Today nearly slipped by without a blog. Today was hard. Physically I feel like crap right now and trying to be funny feels forced. So...

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jdettmann

Nov 18, 20121 min read

Probably For The Best

Must dust cat. To our dear friends whose hen’s and buck’s nights we failed to attend last night, the following conversation is what we...

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Nov 17, 20122 min read

The Talkies

This is not strictly relevant to the following post except that it sums up better than any other photo I have how today has made me feel....

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jdettmann

Nov 15, 20122 min read

It Doesn’t Touch The Mango

Which of the two following stories is scarier? Thing 1. This week I saw a new physiotherapist. She told me I should wear what can only be...

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This Is What You Get When You Mess With Us

jdettmann

Nov 14, 20121 min read

This Is What You Get When You Mess With Us

I think we all feel like this today. Because of the wonders of Facebook, I know, for certain, that everyone else in the civilised world...

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Children’s Parties for the Back-yardless

jdettmann

Nov 13, 20123 min read

Children’s Parties for the Back-yardless

Invitations: To get the numbers up, it’s useful invite people to your party. I used Paperless Post for electronic invitations. It is...

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jdettmann

Nov 5, 20123 min read

Baby You Can’t Drive In My Car

Let’s just get this, in a six-seater version with loads of airbags. We need to get a new car. I find this simultaneously a very boring...

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jdettmann

Oct 18, 20123 min read

Grant Me The Serenity

Lunch out with a tiny nun always helps. I haven’t been feeling very good lately. It’s nothing that the birth of NB won’t fix (or possibly...

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jdettmann

Oct 2, 20122 min read

Taxing

There’s not a lot of coherent narrative flow going on in my life right now, and so, to reflect that, here are some random observations...

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Aug 21, 20124 min read

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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Jul 25, 20122 min read

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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There Are People With Games Of Thrones And Stories To Tell

jdettmann

Jul 10, 20123 min read

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

Jun 26, 20122 min read

Absence Makes The Weather Grow Colder.

Um, no. I haven’t got a good reason. I was just off, you know, living my life and trying to keep warm. Oh, and GROWING A HUMAN, too,...

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jdettmann

Jun 12, 20123 min read

You Can’t Handle The Truth

May Blossom searching for the truth. Right now if you were to ask May Blossom to state, for the benefit of the tape, her full name, she...

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jdettmann

Jun 5, 20123 min read

Great Expectations

Here’s a blurry picture of the creature to be known henceforth as NB. Those are the initials of its in utero name, but could equally...

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May 29, 20122 min read

How To Feel Better

1. When she walks down steps, May Blossom has taken to sometimes refusing the proffered hand of her father or me and instead holds her...

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May 22, 20121 min read

Out Of Control

So instead of writing you a proper blog entry, I am going to try to tackle one of the house-sorting items on my to-do list, which is so...

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May 17, 20122 min read

Mother’s Day And A Misunderstanding

‘Poo.’ She declared. Then, in case I was in any doubt of what she was referring to, she pointed to the bean with her other hand and said...

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