A Realistic Advent Calendar
Tomorrow is the first of December, which means today is the perfect day for good parents to fire up Pinterest and check out some of the...
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JESSICA DETTMANN
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jdettmann
Jun 15, 20122 min read
Paint It Black
A mother, on the other hand, in my humble experience of less than two years, is more like the shell of a person. The stretched out, faded...
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jdettmann
Apr 1, 20122 min read
Do As I Say, Not As I Do.
Last week I was grating a raw beetroot into a pot of soup (this soup, incidentally, which is so delicious I almost ate H’s portion before...
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jdettmann
Jan 28, 20123 min read
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...
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jdettmann
Jan 2, 20122 min read
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...
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jdettmann
Dec 19, 20112 min read
There Will Be Festivity … And A Little Bit Of Begging
Decorating: done (yes, all my bookshelves are this pretentious) There are but three shopping days left until Christmas, dear reader(s)....
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jdettmann
Oct 28, 20112 min read
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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jdettmann
Oct 26, 20111 min read
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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jdettmann
Oct 11, 20112 min read
Hoot, There It Is!
One black and white owl, perched on the screen door. The month of September came to an end and the Mystery of The Toilet Roll Owls was...
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jdettmann
Sep 20, 20112 min read
Owl Be Watching You
A small army of owls Mysterious things never happen to me. Well, almost never. There was the incident with the Russian stalker who stole...
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