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Things have been awfully quiet, here on Life With Gusto. That’s because real life has been a bit hectic. Hectic and befuddling and tiring...
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Aug 21, 20124 min read
What I Learned on My Holidays
1. You have to stay somewhere as good or better than home. My very clever friend Other Jess once told me this, and I think she is right....
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jdettmann
Aug 10, 20123 min read
Off The Wagon
We have just spent seven days on a dude ranch in southern Colorado with my extended family on my mother’s side. We do this every couple...
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jdettmann
Jul 25, 20122 min read
Degree Of Difficulty
Oh for the days when the in-seat phone was all the entertainment she needed. In about four hours we are heading to the airport to fly for...
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jdettmann
Jul 15, 20121 min read
Humpty Dumpty Had A Great Downfall
Is it just the hair? On Play School Humpty’s hair is usually styled with a centre part, but the toy’s hair just wants to go to one side....
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jdettmann
Jul 10, 20123 min read
There Are People With Games Of Thrones And Stories To Tell
Wild scenes: May Blossom out of control in the moshpit. Tip her over, pour her out. We’ve just returned from the Play School Concert. If...
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jdettmann
Jul 3, 20123 min read
1-2-3-4 Tell Me That You Love Me More
This pregnancy I have been plagued with insomnia, which is not something I have ever experienced before. I was the kid who could fall...
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jdettmann
Jun 26, 20122 min read
Absence Makes The Weather Grow Colder.
Um, no. I haven’t got a good reason. I was just off, you know, living my life and trying to keep warm. Oh, and GROWING A HUMAN, too,...
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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
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 29, 20122 min read
How To Feel Better
1. When she walks down steps, May Blossom has taken to sometimes refusing the proffered hand of her father or me and instead holds her...
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jdettmann
May 17, 20122 min read
Mother’s Day And A Misunderstanding
‘Poo.’ She declared. Then, in case I was in any doubt of what she was referring to, she pointed to the bean with her other hand and said...
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jdettmann
May 14, 20123 min read
Lunch Of The Week: Mushroom Barley Soup With Grilled Feta Toast
Better a terrible photo than none at all, that’s what I always say. I couldn’t put my spoon down long enough to take a photo with two...
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jdettmann
May 1, 20123 min read
Secret Fairy Business
Everytime a child says “I don’t believe in fairies” there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan...
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jdettmann
Apr 23, 20121 min read
Let’s Play A Game
My brain today, interior. Coincidentally, also an exhibit of white Lego at the Miro Museum, Barcelona. Let’s play a game where I am the...
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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...
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jdettmann
Apr 17, 20121 min read
Dear Jess: Sleep-Tricycling
Here’s the first in a new occasional series in which I will ask myself questions and then reply. I’ll be my own agony aunt. Today’s...
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jdettmann
Apr 14, 20122 min read
What I’ve Liked This Week: Learning to Be On Holiday Edition
Swimming in an ocean rock pool. I am a bit slow, clearly, but I have finally discovered a place that has all the nice seawater of the...
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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
Mar 29, 20123 min read
Break It Down Now
My little family is about to take a little break. Not from each other, but from the city and work, from battling for parking and crowded...
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