Phyl's Blog

Last spring I suggested a day trip to Largs because it was a nice day. I imagined a nice drive, a stroll along the beach and an ice cream at...

I was born a Buchanan as you know so I have always known what Buchanan tartan looks like. If you'd asked me to describe it without showi...

Nice market Originally uploaded by PhylB Have you ever been to a Scottish Farmers' market ? I know I shouldn't but whenever I see a ...

Clown or Grasshopper? Originally uploaded by Hamed Saber I'm used to grasshoppers. Every summer I have been in southern Europe and I hav...

Town hall Originally uploaded by jimmy2yk Thomas and I were at a wedding on Saturday in Greenock town hall. We had received the invite (verb...

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

I met an old mate in the pub last night. He predicted I'd go into labour at 7pm tonight. Why? Well, he said that when Scotland beat Ital...

Crunch day Originally uploaded by PhylB This van seems fairly typical of Glasgow this weekend, if you look closely at the graffiti on the ...

I was going to blog it last night but I had a migraine. Scotland has only gone and beaten France in France - how surreal is that? I went ro...

We're just back from a weekend camping trip to Oban , which I will blog all about once I have uploaded the photos. In the meantime I hav...

Car Park Originally uploaded by Pete Ashton . I decided last week after my car's little gearbox problem, that the time had come to buy a...

Culzean has to be one of my favourite places to go for a day out. Especially at this time of the year when all the bluebells are in bloom on...

Aren't the trees in Glasgow pretty at the moment? :-)

Too tall for Fife! Originally uploaded by phyl 1 . I'm not quite sure how I got talked into it but just 3 days after my hopeless wild go...

  Until today I thought that satnav was for stupid and/or rich people! I mean, why on earth would anyone pay 1 to 5 hundred pounds for somet...

January has always seemed a more Scottish month than most. I started to analyse why... It starts I guess with all those singing-shortbread-t...

I went to pick up Pudge today as usual at 1 o'clock. His nursery is about 200 metres from the river Kelvin in Kirkintilloch. As I drove ...

This shop window in Ayr is just so British Seaside, isn't it? You can almost see your kids teeth rot just looking at it, can't you? ...

Just flicking through the channels and saw a bunch of people ceilidh dancing. I used to go to the Riverside all the time between about 1985...

Oh dear! Next month's France Scotland football match sold out before I could acquire tickets for it - bad parent :-( Any volunteers to b...