Phyl's Blog

I think one of my favourite ages to photograph is around three or four months when you can stick a baby on a tabletop and snap all their won...

I am a seasoned traveller. I have backpacked round Europe and even NYC alone and with kids and babies for the best part of 25 years so I don...

I was checking out my flickr photos and found to my amazement that this is one of my most popular ones. In fact, if you ignore the breast fe...

Several points on the stranded passenger issue: I have heard several flippant remarks on the TV about people getting a prolonged holiday. Th...

I was half-packed and psyched up to come home on Thursday. We had planned a day of farewells to the relatives in Copenhagen and then a quick...

I have been watching the election campaign on the TV and, as a woman, I am finding the media's interest in Sarah, Samantha and Miriam mo...

My kids are over in France visiting their German grandmother this school holiday for her 80th birthday. Of all André's family, I miss An...

Norwegian Air Shuttle LN-DYB Originally uploaded by Drewski2112 After my displeasure with good old Ryanair over the past few days, imagine m...

My dad just emailed me this and I thought my fellow Ryanair-haters may be amused by it. Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary arriving at Dublin Airp...

I was looking at flights from Stansted to Denmark on Ryanair just now. The flights were £11.99 each and the luggage charge was £20. That got...

I remember fondly when Ryanair started out, back in the days when they actually used their grey matter. They thought through the plastic mea...

I was commissioned once again by the little ones to decorate their room with a mural , this time the theme was to be space . With Léon visit...

Léon is a bright little boy but one sticking point we've had over the past year or two is jigsaw puzzles. He can do them, but no matter ...

Commuting home from Glasgow city centre Originally uploaded by zawtowers According to our darling chancellor in this week's debate, the ...

It's 6am and Anna shouts from upstairs 'Daddy, I want a pee' . Daddy replies ' Zzzzzz ' from my side. Grrrr. I jump ou...

Driving home from nursery the other day Léon suddenly burst into tears and threw himself into my arms at the traffic lights (he was in the f...

I love to take photos with natural light indoors rather than the harshness of a flash, especially when babies are the subject. Instead of th...

For goodness sake! What kind of planet are we living on???? I'd be horrified if I had an 18 month old who couldn't identify fruit an...

When you see two human babies separated in age by just six weeks, you have to conclude that a large part of the first few months' growth...

We were sent a pretty Easter card by Thomas's mum. I have had a vague notion though, since we received it, that something was odd about ...