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Missing, In Action
‘It means he’s sad,’ I told her. ‘It’s a metaphor. Why do you think he’s sad?’ ‘I think it’s because he misses his mummy and his sister...
jdettmann
May 14, 20134 min read
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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:...
jdettmann
Dec 3, 20121 min read
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Car Seat Shopping For The Hormonally Deranged
One of the many dangerous roads of the world that are all out to get my children, according to my pregnancy-addled brain. Have you ever...
jdettmann
Nov 23, 20123 min read
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Baby You Can’t Drive In My Car
Let’s just get this, in a six-seater version with loads of airbags. We need to get a new car. I find this simultaneously a very boring...
jdettmann
Nov 5, 20123 min read
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You Shouldn’t Have
Later this morning H, May Blossom and I are going to commence Operation Shop and Gnaw*,in which we set off to buy Christmas presents for...
jdettmann
Dec 7, 20112 min read
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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...
jdettmann
Nov 21, 20113 min read
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Coat Tales
My grandparents in 1931. There is a slight chance that the love of a good coat can be inherited. We are going to America in a month. This...
jdettmann
Nov 2, 20112 min read
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