Six Excellent Foreign Ideas
1. Gazpacho in cartons from the supermarket 2. Ruins: ruins are lovely. Why don’t we have more of them? 3. Orangutans: Australia should...
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JESSICA DETTMANN
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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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jdettmann
Feb 20, 20122 min read
What I’ve Liked This Week: Sleep Training Edition
Here's a picture of some sort of spotty cat. H took it. I don't know how it's relevant to this post. Can't you draw some kind of...
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jdettmann
Nov 14, 20112 min read
Fear and Loving in Far North Queensland
Welcome to Cape Fear. Also Cape Hliarious Strategic Removal of Letters on Signs. I’ve been thinking this morning about H’s and my...
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jdettmann
Nov 1, 20113 min read
The Race That Stops a Nation
For those of us who don’t go out of the house to work, office sweeps are more of a challenge. Two years ago I was freelance editing from...
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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 14, 20111 min read
Friday Regrets
Today I was going to start a series inspired by the lovely blog Soulemama, in which each Friday I would post a picture of a wonderful...
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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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jdettmann
Sep 16, 20114 min read
Chipmunks Care Nothing For Rules
Because I am busy and important, not not at all because I am lazy, I’m going to post some old travel stories I’ve written over the years....
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