Phyl's Blog

Still November and life out here in Glasgow's 'burbs is getting colder and colder. Fortunately we now have this super deluxe igloo ...

We were sent a pretty Easter card by Thomas's mum. I have had a vague notion though, since we received it, that something was odd about ...

This is the mother and child row of parking spaces at Newton Mearns ASDA today. Needless to say when I did find a parking space, I also fo...

I hadn't managed to get out all day, not even for the school runs but with the rain on, I decided to attempt it at 3pm. The blue car was...

I went out into my garden and found this sitting on the garden table. I have to say it reminded me of many of the old Calvin and Hobbes snow...

Since the end of the cold spell that lasted from the week before Xmas till Amaia's birth, I have started to notice a problem we don'...

I have been housebound for about a week, unable to drag this baby anywhere other than ante-natal appointments. That and the raging hormones ...

I know I'm hormonal at the moment so please make allowances... Why are people so crap at driving in the snow in this country? I guess fo...

I quite like autumn really. From a colour point of view it is the prettiest season... when you are somewhere further south than Glasgow anyw...

  A Scottish grasshopper Originally uploaded by PhylB Sitting in my garden yesterday in Glasgow I was surprised to hear a sound I more ofte...

I decided to take the kids down to the coast today to make the best of this nice, unScottish weather. Marcel of course decided it'd be ...

This poor plant is wondering why it's so damned cold. I can't imagine passion flowers are overly used to the ice. And why is it tha...

I mean how hard can it be???? Fair enough - predicting the weather 10 days from now might be borderline tricky, but when you are talking a...

fun in the snow Originally uploaded by PhylB I woke up in the middle of the night to feed Anna and noticed it was snowing heavily. By 3 hou...

A little wet Originally uploaded by carolclarinet It's raining in our living room! The weather in 2008 has so far been rather gruesome ...

    We had a neat plan for the afternoon. Marcel was invited to a friend's house for 2 hours to play and the sun was just coming out whe...

Every time I have turned on the news for the past week, all I have heard about is flooding and disasters. Half of the BBC news front page is...

Is it just me or have we finally turned the corner out of that dreadful, deep, dark part of the year I so loathe? The past few days have bee...

I love sunflowers. I was out for a walk one day last summer in Southern France when a huge thunder storm hit - while everyone else ran for c...

Today they are running this . I guess it is so we can all see the effects of the 6 degrees and rain yesterday morning! ;-)