Phyl's Blog

Phyllis/Thomas mixture Originally uploaded by viralbus When we were considering having a child, Thomas decided to play about with gimp mixi...

I'm sitting here wrapping my presents feeling the cool soothing of a bra full of Savoy cabbage - ahhh relief!

I saw Thomas had blogged the birth right the way through from the triage farce to the arrival of Anna . I thought I'd leave myself a da...

  I have now had 4 kids, all at the Queen Mother's maternity hospital in Glasgow. As the trance of birth, caused by pain or adrenalin or...

Today was a bit of an eye opener. At one point I mentioned that the baby needed to eat . Léon suggested 'tatoes . I replied that babies...

After mentioning a few days ago that I'd have a comment to make if the baby should turn up on the due date predicted by my period rather...

Saw this last week - I thought I'd share it with you: If pregnancy were a book, the editor would probably cut the last 2 chapters... I c...

I can't help but notice that poor Dougal has finally died and his stuffed body is being used ornamentally outside Silverburn shopping ...

This baby has my reputation in tatters - I have never got beyond week 39+ before and here I am sitting 1 day overdue with no more twinges or...

In exactly 56 minutes I will be 40 weeks pregnant. I have never been 40 weeks pregnant before in my life. I am not a happy bunny. Forty seem...

Have I moaned about our new kitchen? It looked fairly bland but functional when we first moved in - how wrong can first impressions be?...

For months now all we've been hearing about is global warming, carbon footprints and all that stuff. We're all supposed to stop flyi...

Today, with still no baby on the scene, I have managed to gut the kitchen, find the tools in the garage despite the 2 degree temperature out...

Now that I have resigned myself to the fact that baby wotsit is in no rush, I feel like I am finally getting somewhere. I decided to DIY . ...

Léon and Gordon playing together Originally uploaded by PhylB I read today with little surprise that Scotland's population is fallin...

DSC06757 Originally uploaded by viralbus In the flat we have an all-in-one fridge freezer with the fridge on the top. I hadn't...

I had absolutely no intention of reaching my last day in the office, assuming, like last time, that the baby would be well and truly on the ...

A sleepy sausage Originally uploaded by PhylB How can anyone fall this soundly asleep after a car journey lasting less than 3 minutes?! ...

Charlotte the hairdresser Originally uploaded by viralbus You may remember in the spring, Marcel was stupid enough to cut off his hair...

Mutton biryani Originally uploaded by trudence Today Thomas and I decided to go for lunch at the little known Village Curry House in Gla...