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
May 20, 20153 min read
Go To Sleep, Little Baby
Helpfully, May Blossom and Pipsqueak look like twins born four years apart, so I can illustrate this post with a picture of my own child...
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jdettmann
Apr 29, 20152 min read
I Stand For Mercy
I’m generally pretty hopeless at looking the bad aspects of our world in the eye. I’m didn’t participate in any vigils for Andrew Chan...
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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 3, 20121 min read
The Lazy Person’s Guide To Buying A Christmas Present For My Dad
1. Is it a book? Yes: go to question 2. No: Select again and go back to question 1. 2. Does it have endnotes? Yes: Go to question 3. No:...
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jdettmann
Dec 1, 20122 min read
Not What It Looks Like
Also not what it looks like: this image of May Blossom checking on her sibling in my tummy illustrates why late pregnancy, maxi-dresses...
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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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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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jdettmann
Sep 10, 20124 min read
Everyone’s A Critic
The next book we’re borrowing from the library is ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’. Right now one of May Blossom’s favourite books is We’re...
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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
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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jdettmann
Apr 5, 20122 min read
Easter Monday Isn’t A Real Thing
Artfully placed chocolate bunny among our new carrot seedlings. What Easter traditions do you observe? In my family, every year my mother...
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jdettmann
Feb 8, 20122 min read
No Gold Medal
When we arrived in Perth three days ago, sixteen hours after Pappy’s death, we were running on what could charitably described as empty....
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jdettmann
Feb 6, 20122 min read
Old Man, Look At My Life
H’s beloved dad died on Saturday. It was expected, and a relief in that he was released from his suffering after a year of illness. It is...
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jdettmann
Feb 2, 20122 min read
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...
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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
Dec 29, 20113 min read
A Deep Breath Out
Hello there. Did you survive Christmas? Are you still speaking to any of your family? Did anyone lose an eye when the top button of your...
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jdettmann
Nov 21, 20113 min read
What, This Old Thing?
How many of your clothes do you love? I mean love as in you’d think about them for a long, long time if you never saw them again. I have...
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jdettmann
Nov 7, 20112 min read
Being One, Alphabetically
B Blueberries: why not allowed to eat unlimited quantities? C Cat: for kissing. D Doors, slamming thereof: why so annoying to parents? E...
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jdettmann
Nov 4, 20112 min read
All Of The Five Little Ducks Came Back
I learned of Flora’s (a pseudonym) birth by a text message with a picture an hour after her birth, which was unexpectedly...
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