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jdettmann
May 14, 20134 min read
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...
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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
Nov 23, 20123 min read
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...
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jdettmann
Nov 5, 20123 min read
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...
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jdettmann
Dec 7, 20112 min read
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...
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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 2, 20112 min read
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...
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