Phyl's Blog

  Now here's an interesting study . Given that when Baked is born, she'll have heard a lot of English, Danish, French, German and...

Here 's a classic, if ever I saw one - just check out that 20 second video. You've got to admire their balls!

It appeared to be a normal day when we got up but it seems Chambers Harrap is closing down its Edinburgh dictionary office after nearly 200...

I've just been reading this on the BBC. To be honest, it isn't something I've thought about in great depth given I would never e...

Karen and Phyllis Originally uploaded by viralbus I was reading yesterday that women who drink a lot of coffee should be aware that it coul...

I don't know whether to shake my head, cry or laugh reading all this BA terminal 5 nonsense . Thomas took one look at that picture and ...

Humans and their arrogance anger me sometimes. We make judgements about others' situations when we ourselves have not been it their situ...

It seems the police have discovered the identity of yesterday's body - a young Polish girl: Agnieszka Zabel. I guess she fell from the ...

I got up thinking I would take Léon and Anna to the beach or the park given the weather forecast was for sun and 10 degrees. I phoned to as...

Léon and Gordon playing together Originally uploaded by PhylB I read today with little surprise that Scotland's population is fallin...

I was reading this interesting article about Alan Johnston. It reminded me a lot of reading Brian Keenan's truly fascinating book: An ev...

All the way to work this morning they were warning us to be prepared for long motorway tailbacks and delays because over a thousand live chi...

  I read this article on the BBC today with interest. I have wondered for some time now whether we in the UK aren't actually causing t...

It seems to be the Trabant's 50th birthday today so the BBC has a pile of bizarre Trabi photos . Seeing them just reminded me of the 6...

I turned on the radio yesterday to hear that the headline news in Glasgow in February 2007 is that childcare costs a lot ! This is news???...

While reading his Danish newspaper this morning, Thomas came across an article about breast sizes in Europe. He was more than surprised to s...

Flicking through the BBC's in pictures section as always I came across this collection of baby panda shots. Now you have to admit the...

I suppose if you are going to cock something up, you might as well do it spectacularly!

I read this today. Has this country gone completely mad?

Well, I was beginning to wonder if I had been hearing things earlier. Both Jeremy Vine and Steve Wright had mentioned in several news bull...