Phyl's Blog

I've done my fair share of moaning about redundancies and dropping house prices and struggles since the recession first interfered with ...

As the year changes and everyone is thinking of resolutions and wishes for 2011, I have only one simple wish for 2011. I hope to finish it t...

I got Thomas a hat for Xmas - the weather has been so cold recently. Amaia had a wee go of it today and I instantly remembered a very ol...

When we set out for my brother and sister-in-law's on Xmas day at lunch time it was pouring with rain. The temperature must have dropped...

I have been ribbing Thomas for weeks about his choice of shape for our traditional British Xmas cake... you don't get more German/Alsati...

  Little children can be so unfazed by the strange goings-on in the world sometimes. I went to pick up Léon and Lots from school yesterday....

I try to listen to the news in French every other night because our press is so insular - tonight's is particularly interesting. Even i...

A good number of years ago an English friend of mine asked me casually if I liked bread and butter pudding. Bread and butter pudding is some...

I see my other half has been blogging this ! Funny, when I saw it the other night independently from him I had exactly the same reaction - t...

I don't suppose too many Glasgow Xmas trees have giant Lebkuchen hanging on them!?

I wonder if I could get funding to give up the day job to do a PhD in teenage behaviour? They are truly fascinating creatures. Take yesterda...

I associate my garden bench more with iced coffees in the summer months. I can't remember ever seeing it looking like this before! It...

I don't know much about icicle formation (until 12 months ago I didn't live in a cold country!) but I am more than impressed by the ...

Today the only way to get anywhere was by sledge. I dragged Léon and Amaia, while Lots dragged Anna. Léon did better than expected, only dro...

About a year ago Jessops were selling beautiful polarizer filters at about £45. I was lusting after one but it was so overpriced I just coul...

André had promised to take the two oldest kids to school this morning as he hadn't seen them all last week because of the weather and hi...

I've always loved the drawings my children do. I find around five the best age by far on the cute scale. Take this one Léon did today o...

Since the snow began to fall last Saturday, one thing had been tinging the prettiness of it all with sadness for me. The knowledge that unli...

Poor Amaia - every time I have taken her out in the snow this week she has fallen instantly asleep. It is all too much for her. So I walk ab...

It's been a hard week with schoolruns (usually a 14 minute roundtrip) taking up to one hour in blizzard conditions. The school playgroun...