Shame

jdettmann

Feb 21, 20184 min read

Panic Stations

Like sorting Lego into colours, listing your worries makes you feel like you’re making progress. In both cases this is an illusion. I’m...

jdettmann

Apr 20, 20123 min read

Outstanding

First prize for The Pun With The Most Elaborate Set-up: H announced this morning that his watch is set to 'Green H mean time'. We’re back...

jdettmann

Apr 3, 20122 min read

Gracious Is My Middle Name

I actually had a very, very nice birthday. May Blossom decided that I should enjoy the day for as many hours as possible so she got up at...

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...

jdettmann

Mar 21, 20123 min read

She Is Sixteen, Going On Seventeen (Months)

May Blossom loves to play. Anything that involves chasing, shrieking and creating mayhem gets her seal of approval. Yesterday she and her...

jdettmann

Feb 15, 20123 min read

You’re So Money

In other areas of my life in which I am clearly not money, I went back to the gym today for the first time since I was five months...

jdettmann

Jan 31, 20122 min read

You Be The Judge: On Playgroups And Tantrums

It probably wasn’t as awful to others as it was to me, but most of the other mums there have two or more kids, and I suddenly felt like a...

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)....

jdettmann

Oct 20, 20112 min read

I Broke the Mould

Just asking. You know, for a friend. I have this friend who is very very good at ignoring housework. Other people’s filth she regards as...