There Will Be Books
Curious George is a movie that can penetrate even the most noise-cancelling of headphones. Writing a novel in the same room as a...
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jdettmann
May 15, 20174 min read
Hashtag Mother’s Day
Just before dawn yesterday I had one of those very special nightmares where you wake, unable to breathe from the horror, saying to...
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jdettmann
Mar 29, 20173 min read
Jackhammers, Interrupted
I, sadly not a celestial being, had to remain here on the earth that quaked every day for eight or nine hours as the diggers ripped...
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jdettmann
Mar 21, 20173 min read
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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jdettmann
Mar 7, 20173 min read
The Bullshit Filibuster And Other Surefire Ways To Drive Your Sibling Mad
My children have picked up on that and helpfully compensated to bring my overall happiness down to neutral. Both of them are still...
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jdettmann
Feb 22, 20174 min read
Contact High
That, of course, is when then the gods strike you down. That is when you all come down with a virus and the teacher sends home a bunch of...
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jdettmann
Feb 14, 20173 min read
Romance Club
In the past I have been very bad at giving Valentine’s Day gifts to H, which is a great shame because he is far more romantic than I am...
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jdettmann
Jan 12, 20173 min read
TWELVE Days of Christmas? Not On My Watch
Proper homemade gingerbread house that I had absolutely nothing to do with. Grandmothers are where it’s at. Good New Year to you, dear...
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jdettmann
Nov 18, 20164 min read
Should It Stay Or Should It Go?
I need to cull our belongings. This is a truth universally known. But I am also a sentimentalist at heart. I know how you’re meant to get...
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jdettmann
Oct 10, 20163 min read
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...
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jdettmann
Aug 25, 20165 min read
Area of Particular Interest
That aside, we are really very extremely excited. We are going to Finland, Sweden and Denmark. The trip has come about because Jess is a...
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jdettmann
Aug 11, 20163 min read
Olympics Para Siempre
We are disgraceful: this was one of only two photos we have of anyone in this family doing anything even vaguely athletic, while also not...
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jdettmann
Jun 29, 20163 min read
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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jdettmann
Jun 15, 20164 min read
Sticker Shock
Part of a Lego exhibition we saw on the weekend and in no way a freakishly accurate representation of our bedroom when it’s my morning to...
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jdettmann
Jun 3, 20163 min read
Who Will Rock Me?
We Will Rock You is a musical by Ben Elton, based on the songs of Queen. When arranging the tickets I made very sure Dad was aware that...
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jdettmann
May 17, 20164 min read
The Joy of Sticks
From top: gun, sword, wand. AKA ‘kindling for Granddad’. I’ve never thought brandishing a stick was a good idea. We were always told by...
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jdettmann
Mar 29, 20163 min read
The Longest Weekend
Poor little kid. She and her brother are so prone to ear infections and croup. They just have tiny little respiratory tracts and...
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jdettmann
Mar 23, 20163 min read
A Hot Cross Son for Easter
This week he has been brought to howling tears by many and varied injustices. There was the fact that I would not go under the house to...
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jdettmann
Mar 16, 20164 min read
Testing Times
Occasionally he makes up a word (‘You nuckus!’) or just pops something that’s not an insult at all (‘You big sandwich!) None of it is...
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jdettmann
Mar 1, 20163 min read
Tropical with No Chance of Orang-utans
How I cope with this is to put aside what I should be doing (perhaps preparing my keynote speech for the International Conference on...
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