Phyl's Blog

It's time for yet another rant - this time about the NHS or the Minister for Health or whatever skinflint is in charge of the NHS purse...

Well if you think I am usually a bit of a ranter, prepare yourself for a whopper of a rant... Barbra, as I mentioned last month , is coming ...

Léon , as you know, has been very unwell - 10 days of really bad chicken pox complete with pox in his mouth and throat etc making eating a p...

I'm not usually a great blogger of politics but I have to have an itsy bitsy rant about the libdem party. Maybe I'm politically n...

My dad, aka Victor Meldrew himself, has the cheek to blog that I'm a ranter ! My God, has he reread his own stuff! ;-) Rant rant rant!...

It isn't often I comment on adverts - I usually find them mind numbing or annoying but I have to say if I needed a smaller car than the ...

As promised, here is a photo of my new baby! Isn't this cheerier than a cloud-coloured car? For anyone who is interested, it is the beau...

The planet Léon Originally uploaded by viralbus . So inspired by Thomas' latest photographic achievement, Lots has finally blogged her n...

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...

I've been using Vista now on my new laptop for a couple of months and it is really nice. It looks pretty, works well, the new office pr...

Disabled Parking Originally uploaded by Up Your Ego . I have to have a rant about disabled parking. I was in Tesco today. Thomas nipped ou...

driving Originally uploaded by kimi & fer & flor . I picked up a prescription for Léon today while I was out shopping. It was prescr...

I have not had the least stressful week of my life. Léon (as you know) decided to get a lovely dose of chicken pox so I couldn't take h...

Weetabix Originally uploaded by qwertyuiop . I'm not a great weetabix fan - I can just about stomach the mini ones with the chocolate d...

Today the wee man slept from 7am to 3pm waking only for 10 minutes 2 or 3 times. Yesterday evening, see photo, I thought he was on the mend....

I had a very strange experience on Saturday night. Derek and Amanda were round for dinner and Thomas had cooked a lovely three course meal. ...

. Well he isn't a happy man today. He was up most of the night burning hot and only really happy when he was being held. When he cries y...

I went to bed at midnight but was woken at about 1am with Charlotte crying - she had a sore stomach. I sat and hugged her on the couch for 1...

On Friday after nursery I noticed Léon had one tiny blister on his torso (see the note if you click on this photo). I said to Thomas immedia...

  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...