Phyl's Blog

Kitchen chaos Originally uploaded by PhylB We've been living in kitchen chaos now since we moved here in January. Within the first few d...

Tonight Thomas and I were discussing bilingualism and translation. As a child he hated being asked by fellow pupils to provide German transl...

In Århus Originally uploaded by PhylB Anyone who knows me knows I am no culinary wimp. On my list of foods I don't like there is tripe a...

Two years ago I had wanted to go and see Mamma mia on Broadway when I was in New York, but somehow with only five days I ran out of time, a...

I laid my computer down for two seconds today to lift my coffee and Bits touched something, the screen went completely black - the cursor wa...

I'm getting so fed up. They are coming at me from all angles today. First, I turn on my computer and am blasted by ads of where to go fo...

For about a week Anna has eaten very little other than breast milk. As it came on the back of a trip home from Denmark, a nasty wasp sting a...

Back in Stansted Originally uploaded by PhylB Last week I was discussing the genetics of baby Anna's motor skills . This week I am more ...

The second most expensive thing about having kids, after childcare - which of course is a cost that can in theory be avoided as long as one...

On a plane between Denmark and London Originally uploaded by PhylB I know the world falls into travellers and non-travellers, just as it fal...

One of the best things about marrying into another culture (even if you don't marry) is getting to know the little hidden bits of that c...

Today my parents took Bits for a walk up to their house for an hour while I finished the ironing and Thomas cut the post-holiday grass. They...

Aren't cornflowers the most beautiful blue colour?

A pen and a piece of foam Originally uploaded by PhylB Usually I give Anna some milk late in the evening and she falls asleep, whereby we pu...

The manse garden Originally uploaded by PhylB After the first rainstorm in Denmark, I was amazed to see how many huge reddish brown slugs cr...

I've just finished Double Fault by Lionel Shriver . As usual for Lionel, it was a great read, even for someone like me who isn't par...

In the manse Originally uploaded by PhylB Genetics definitely come into it when deciding when kids roll, crawl and walk etc. My 3 big kids w...

Sleeping in the church hall Originally uploaded by PhylB We decided to let Felix(12), Marcel(11), Theodor(10) and Charlotte (8) sleep in the...

scrabble Originally uploaded by petitshoo Have you ever tried playing scrabble using a foreign scrabble set? You'd think it'd be as ...

I see this is 08-08-08 - supposedly the luckiest day of the century according to some. The luckiest last century was meant to be 8-8-88 - th...