It Turns Out, You Can Go Home Again
Sample bookshelf from my parents’ attic: Just one of the many collections of books that tells you probably more than you need to know...
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JESSICA DETTMANN
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jdettmann
Apr 27, 20165 min read
Nothing Is Fun For The Whole Family
This seems lovely, doesn’t it? Until you realise that is not the ocean Garnet is wallowing in but actually self-pity. See the ripples of...
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jdettmann
Jun 4, 20153 min read
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
Feb 5, 20155 min read
A Bit of Stair Trouble
This morning was officially the second day I was to leave the house and come here to work on the blog and other self-directed (aka...
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jdettmann
Aug 8, 20143 min read
The Son Also Vomits
My daughter has a remarkable grasp of phonetic spelling. This week has indeed been totally phykd. Gastro. Again. You’re going to start...
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jdettmann
Jul 4, 20143 min read
We Sneeze In The Face Of Danger
May Blossom’s Self-Portrait With Gastro It’s winter here, and with each new and sparkling dawn comes a new illness. I’m quite serious:...
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jdettmann
Dec 12, 20133 min read
Flat-packed
So sweet, you’d never know they have tiny ear canals brimming with filth and germs. Nor that the one on the right is about to throw up in...
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jdettmann
Sep 20, 20133 min read
Things Are Good When Things Are Good
Thing 1: Since one or other or another of his or my recent colds or ear infections or other random maladies that have blurred into one...
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jdettmann
Dec 4, 20121 min read
You Give Me Fever
In the event of finding yourself over thirty-eight weeks pregnant and suffering from a virus that makes you burn with fever and shake...
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jdettmann
Nov 28, 20123 min read
My Patience Is The Only Thin Part Of Me
But, weirdly enough, it was one of the loveliest nights I can remember. Partly because nights in general, in my opinion, are for sleeping...
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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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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
Aug 10, 20123 min read
Off The Wagon
We have just spent seven days on a dude ranch in southern Colorado with my extended family on my mother’s side. We do this every couple...
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jdettmann
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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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 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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jdettmann
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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jdettmann
Apr 14, 20122 min read
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...
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jdettmann
Mar 26, 20121 min read
Where Have All The Yellow Cars Gone?
Silver. Silver. Silver. White. Black. Silver. Black. Black. Silver. RED! Dark Blue. Silver. Silver. The cars are so montone these days...
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jdettmann
Mar 7, 20123 min read
Ups and Downs
In the down column: 1. My 102-year-old grandmother suffered a small stroke. 2. The fate of our missing family cat, Tigercat, was...
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