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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
Oct 18, 20123 min read
Grant Me The Serenity
Lunch out with a tiny nun always helps. I haven’t been feeling very good lately. It’s nothing that the birth of NB won’t fix (or possibly...
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jdettmann
Oct 2, 20122 min read
Taxing
There’s not a lot of coherent narrative flow going on in my life right now, and so, to reflect that, here are some random observations...
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jdettmann
Sep 21, 20122 min read
Well May We Say God Save The Blog
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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jdettmann
Sep 10, 20124 min read
Everyone’s A Critic
The next book we’re borrowing from the library is ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’. Right now one of May Blossom’s favourite books is We’re...
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jdettmann
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
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
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
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 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 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...
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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
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...
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