Phyl's Blog

I have now read this twice and checked the date (in vain hoping to find it is actually April 1, but apparently not)! I am speechless but fel...

I touched on this parking nonsense the other week but now it really is annoying me. Firstly, if they are going to introduce parking suppo...

I remember a few years back, lego was voted best toy ever. The main reason cited was that kids never got bored of it because when they did...

Ten years already - God childhood sure passes a lot quicker from the parents' perspective than the kids' :-( I got to take them all...

Happy bunny Originally uploaded by phyl 1 Last summer I turned on my computer one day. Out of the blue the google ad that popped up t...

Charlotte and the Simpsons Originally uploaded by viralbus The kids are Simpsons daft at the moment so needed to pose for the mobil...

An expensive toilet brush Originally uploaded by viralbus All I can say is - who would pay around 120 quid for a loo brush when Ikea is ...

Guinness from the ceiling Originally uploaded by viralbus Isn't this cool? I noticed it on the ceiling of the Irish pub in Stanste...

Since the EU expanded a while back we seem to have been hearing a lot about Polish workers taking over the UK. At first I didn't notice...

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...

Isn't this cute? Gordy and Pudge climbed up on two chairs this afternoon to look out at the street and beyond to Kelvingrove park....

I have been sneezing non-stop now for a week or two, or so I thought, until I checked back some old emails to pals and realized it was clos...

Glasgow city centre at 11-55pm. People waiting to get into a night club? No not likely, waiting to get into Waterstones and WH Smith for t...

I was enraged yesterday to hear that a major bugbear from my own childhood 30 years ago is still being perpetuated in this day and age...th...

a beautiful boy with his frog Originally uploaded by phyl1 I took this photo of Marcel on holiday and really like it a lot. We'd bee...

Not very interesting I know but just in case you can't sleep for wondering - Ashleigh rang me at 1-15pm to tell me she'd printed ou...

No murder charge yet - she deigned to process my application after seeing a council tax bill dated a month before the one she considered inv...

Coming back your holiday is never easy...I woke up at 5am, mentally not wanting to oversleep...not a great start. Got into the office a bit ...

Léon didn't understand... Originally uploaded by phyl1 What we hadn't foreseen when we took the kids to Legoland the other day was ...

Léon wearing Bjørn's trainers Originally uploaded by phyl1 Still on holiday so not much time to blog...but had to remark on ho...