Phyl's Blog

Today is Halloween . That is why baby Pudge is wearing a spider suit for his nursery Halloween party where he apparently enjoyed dooking for...

I mentioned back in May that I tore some ligaments in my foot trying to eat a chocolate cheesecake (incidentally the worst chocolate cheese...

Last night I dreamt of New York - big whoop I hear you cry! When I was really there I only used surface transport because alone with a baby...

These are two aspects of New York that none of the films or TV capture. The traffic, the taxi horns, the many different languages you hear a...

Another rant about prices: if I had known how much I would have to pay for T-shirts in NY, especially baby T-shirts like this one I bought m...

Poor Pudge has been sick since he started nursery about six weeks ago. His immune system has been tested to the extreme. He has caught colds...

So here it is in Manhattan - large coffee with a bagel, just $1-25. So why do we numpties in Scotland pay 4 times that much here for the sam...

I don't know what it was about Times Square. I assumed with all that hustle and bustle and neons, Léon would find it fascinating. Howeve...

So I was driving into town with all 3 kids in the back of the car tonight. They asked me to put on the cd of High School Musical . 'Is t...

I went into a chemist on 5th avenue an hour after arriving in Manhattan. It looked spookily familiar - it could have been Superdrug. The lay...

Straight after lunch one day in Manhattan I passed this place near Times Square. I was full and Pudge was asleep so I noted it mentally (eve...

Am I the only one fed up with all the negativity in the world? I came across this article today on the BBC website. Ok so Ryanair does have...

I guess someone had a bad day at work! :-)

Dad says he's going to stop blogging since no one comments on his blog :-( Come on everyone - start commenting, please!

Another astouding thing I found about America is how cheap everything was - the food, the drink, the clothes, the gas. WHY exactly do we p...

One thing I really loved in NY was those food places where you could go in and fill a little plastic tub (or even a big plastic tub) with ev...

It's that time of the year again when all us boring Brits start looking forward to Bonfire night and fireworks displays and such like. W...

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? ...

I suddenly remembered today that when I was 7, during a gym lesson at primary school, my teacher called me to one side and asked me to repea...

Léon tried his hardest to reach them earlier but still couldn't so unless we get a ladder or a broom there is soon going to be a cider f...