Phyl's Blog

I always knew it was only a matter of time before the kids started having fun with it... What? Language of course! I left the kids in Tes...

  Isn't it funny how sometimes you take a photo and as soon as you see it you remember a similar one you took years previously? Léon was...

  I dropped by my parents' house today for 15 minutes. Mum was upstairs, dad was at the computer having just come in from golf. He menti...

Ryanair B737 London Luton Originally uploaded by kpmarek The sky was blue, the sun was shining - basically it looked like perfect flying w...

Italy is hoaching with Lancias as always, I noticed two models in particular - this fancy saloon model - the 'Lancia Thesis' and th...

  It was 32 degrees celsius in Rome and yet the clothes shop was selling these!? It is too hot for normal jeans let alone furry ones! (And I...

Well that's even more stupid! I am on about that gap again... You may have read on Friday that huge shops like Boots don't sell toil...

Last year's nonsensical flight restrictions don't seem to have improved any - would you just look at this rubbish ? But one thing I ...

I was up half the night with a runny nose, a thumping head, and a sore throat. I ran the kids to Newton Mearns at 6-30am then collapsed on...

  We went to the West End Festival on Sunday afternoon. At first Pudge fell asleep and I was scared he was going to miss the big parade. I s...

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...

    I mentioned that Pudge's short stay in hospital last week had improved his vocabulary no end and I think it has been the booster an...

As I mentioned last week , I'm having a wee bit of a fight with Concert Productions International: When I bought the original tickets fo...

You probably remember the little blow-out I had on my old car a few months ago. That resulted in one wheel missing a hubcap, sorry the Citro...

This has to be the best meal my naked chef has made me in months - from Jamie's book - the 'roasted sweet garlic, thyme and mascar...

Rome-Florence train Originally uploaded by tofeset I was curious yesterday about the price of a train ticket from Rome to Zürich (ok indulg...

  These days cars are getting smarter... or are they? I hadn't read the full spec on mine when I bought it so was very impressed the fir...

Check out the photo (no.10) published on the BBC news today - I thought my old Gramps (pictured here in 1984, right) died 10 years ago b...

Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth Originally uploaded by jotape85 Ok, I admit that anyone who knows my politics, knows I'm hardly likely t...

    You may be wondering why Pudge is holding an inhaler and I look 10 years older and more exhausted than I did a week ago? What a week thi...