Phyl's Blog

We found out last week that Léon was rather long-sighted. Today we picked up his glasses. Instantly when he put them on, he opened his mouth...

It's always poor Pudgeman... After three years of fighting the spots (as you can see we still have one of those on his right cheek) we r...

Can you believe this is our seven month old baby? I had her what seems like only yesterday and already she's cruising my wall bars, eati...

I'm a great lover of courgettes - courgette and dolce latte soup in particular but I am forever being teased about the number times I ...

I was going to blog Ryanair (just for a change) this week, but what better way to do it than with this accompanying musical treat! (The fi...

Have I mentioned my new wee nephew Alasdair? Isn't he cute? What amazed me last Thursday when he was over was his wrinkly forehead! I do...

While in Devon we drove over to Cornwall for a day to visit the famous Eden project . I knew it was a made up of several greenhouse domes co...

I've been having missing sock problems all my parenting life. I remember ranting about them in my very first blog postings. I counted ne...

Surprisingly we only had one morning of rain on our sixteen day tour of the UK. We decided to spend it looking for South Devon Chilli Far...

I had to laugh this morning watching the 90 or so new primary ones running into school. What do some of the parents think their kids are goi...

My little baby Pudgeman started school today! I can't believe he's old enough for primary school already. I'm not even sure he i...

Gordy was round to play with Pudge yesterday. It was a perfect summer's day so garden time was on the menu. After showing him our sunflo...

A piece of advice for anyone with kids within a couple of hours of York: take them to the free National Railway Museum there - it is just a...

It's funny what you find out at the ripe old age of 42. I have always known that I was not meant to be called Phyllis . When my parents ...

So now there are seven of them - grandchildren of my two only-child parents. They didn't see that coming! Dad has decided to refer to t...

As part of our ambitious camping trip (a 2000 mile trip round the UK with all five kids in a car without a roof box or trailer!) we stayed i...

Amaia has a big appetite. She always has had. But as she hits 7 months, she's becoming a bit pickier. She is making an anti-sweet stance...

We're camping in Paignton this week. This morning we noticed we were just 12 miles from the famous Buckfast Abbey. We drove across Da...

Do you remember the Billy Connolly sketch when he recounts finding his first grey pubic hair? He's appalled to realize middle age has ...

You know when you come across someone foreign on Youtube who claims they can teach you to speak with a 'British accent', that you...