Phyl's Blog

Since the day it closed in March 2003 I have been at a loose end. My very favourite place in all of Glasgow was dismantled, not before time...

When Derek rang us on 18 January last year to tell us Gordon had been born, he described him as a ginger, as in /ˈgɪŋər/ . Amanda and Derek ...

Léon has learned to walk! :-) He has been a few weeks slower than my other kids because he was so unwell for part of October and November bu...

I was listening to Radio 4 last night when an interesting discussion came on. The topic was a news announcement made on 11-11-06 on the BBC ...

I was reading this week about Ségolène Royal the would-be first female president of France, and more power to her, she has to be better than...

I was reading on the BBC online this week that Rudi Giuliani is considering standing for the next US presidential election. It described hi...

the world's most hideous tea set Originally uploaded by phyl1 . I saw this in the window of a shop in Riga and did a double-take. At fir...

Latvia Originally uploaded by phyl1 . I was watching TV in the hotel in Latvia last weekend to see how much Latvian I could understand. We...

I finally took the bull by the horns, bit the bullet and all those other nasty things yesterday, so that's that ordeal over with for ano...

In case anyone is interested I checked out the supermarket yesterday - cigarettes average £5-43 a packet in Glasgow, approximately 1000% mor...

Don't you just love the effects you can achieve by stitching photos together ? I felt that Manhattan lent itself particularly well to th...

3 legged lady Originally uploaded by phyl1 . Every time Charlotte flies Ryanair she studies the safety card and then asks, quite seriously, ...

pasta Originally uploaded by phyl1 . I have been complaining now for weeks about Léon's health. He ate little more than a yogurt on his ...

I heard this on radio Scotland on the way home tonight. Now I am no raving green looney. I do see the sense of saving the planet for future ...

I was having a mid-life crisis the other week so decided to go on a trip down memory lane by watching one of my favourite movies: Grease ! I...

Have a look at this picture, bearing in mind that the Latvian Lat is worth almost to the penny exactly the same as the pound sterling! Isn...

I tend to have reasonably long hair most of the time. most people perhaps assume that is because I like long hair! I don't mind it but i...

Today Pudge picked up the phone while his brother and sister were at school, pressed a few numbers, held it up near his ear and said, "...

The last thing Yorkhill hospital said to me last week was that they'd taken a urine sample to cultivate over the weekend and would only ...

I guess this has to be the final New York topic, there is no avoiding it. I had known from I touched down in New Jersey that whatever else I...