Phyl's Blog

This is the mother and child row of parking spaces at Newton Mearns ASDA today. Needless to say when I did find a parking space, I also fo...

I hadn't managed to get out all day, not even for the school runs but with the rain on, I decided to attempt it at 3pm. The blue car was...

I went out into my garden and found this sitting on the garden table. I have to say it reminded me of many of the old Calvin and Hobbes snow...

I've been saying since day one that Amaia looks more like Pudge than she looks like the others. Today I happened upon this photo of Léon...

My parents have always lived in a house but to say they were never keen gardeners would be an understatement! They like a wee bit lawn, some...

Looks like I'm off lentil dahl for lent... possibly till Easter 2011 in fact. I had a lovely bowl of it on Saturday at 6pm. Around 8pm A...

André was having the three big kids this weekend. I was looking forward, therefore, to advancing leaps and bounds on our book-moving proje...

Why is it you need to spell everything out to kids? You ask them to fill the dishwasher, they fill it but don't switch it on.. You buy t...

Don't you love medicine instructions? We've all had the cough mixture for four year olds that warns them not to drive or operate ma...

When I moved in with Thomas he had a large library of books. To frighten anyone who knows me, he had about six times as many books as I'...

Marcel, Charlotte, Léon and myself have no problem getting up in the morning and just 'going'. We can have a shower if we're in...

I've been tidying and changing bedrooms around in my house since Hogmanay . While moving Marcel I found the shoes we bought him for my w...

Anna has been amusing us linguistically recently. She has taken to inventing her own very expressive verbs. It started on Xmas day when her ...

One thing I have learned over the years is the way to deal with these angelic little terrorist trolls when they decide they'd rather you...

Thomas and I often look at Photoshop Disasters . I am often amazed at the quality of the things some news media publish and momentarily cons...

When I was little my Dad used to call rubbing noses Eskimo kisses . The other day the kids were kissing and hugging and Thomas asked if they...

Amaia has followed in all her siblings' footsteps this week by getting onto BBC Scotland's photo page . Awwwwh!

This is really amusing - especially if you aren't Apple's greatest fan.

I decided to watch the news tonight on TF1 while feeding Amaia. I had seen the UK news so knew what was going on in Europe... or did I? The...

I know rumour has it I am going to be 42 next week, but given I am from the UK, admitting that I have never made jam, marmalade or anything...