Phyl's Blog

From tomorrow things are changing drastically for Danish ex-pats. One of the main problems is that no one has told the Danes! Basica...

I was trying to find an address online yesterday. I was aiming for 192.com or the likes but somehow stumbled upon Zoopla instead by mistake....

So the Bawbag storm has blown away our fence. Given the amount of rain we seem to be getting, a new fence will probably rot away before the ...

Charlotte has hit (pre-)teens big time - drooling over those little boys in One Direction and the likes! If that wasn't bad enough, she...

I always thought puff pastry was puff pastry but I am beginning to wonder if there is a difference between what we call puff up here in Scot...

The roads here in East Renfrewshire are in a bit of a state. Two have been resurfaced since last year's big freeze (Firwood and Capelr...

Why do little kids (in particular, though not in this case, boys) watch TV upside down? I've always wondered why they consistently do th...

How much do you have to spend to make your child's Xmas special? Recently while shopping in Toys R Us a woman was buzzing around the a...

What's going on with the Royal Mail parcel delivery service? Has the government run out of money to provide them with the little re...

I was taking Léon, Anna and Amaia to bed on Sunday night. Anna was rather excited at the prospect of turning four the next day. I was lyin...

I was sad to see SAAB reach the end of the road today. I learned to drive in my dad's SAAB back in 1985. I remember I was so small b...

I'm the first to moan about the primary school's (or is it perhaps the council's) mollycoddlying of children. The poor wee bugge...

I read this article today and it almost made me laugh out loud. I'm not sure how aware people are that ailments are a cultural thing un...

As I mentioned a few months back , Barbapapa is big everywhere in Europe except here. As you can see, kids here seem to love them just as mu...

There's a naive innocence in teenagers who aren't used to babies and their devious ways. On Friday last week Marcel invited two frie...

Léon came out of school jumping with excitement. His first tooth had come out. I asked him the story: Well, I was in the dinner hall eating...

I had discovered the missing fence. I had found the smashed greenhouse panes. The leaking dining room window, hall ceiling and wall had not ...

Anna had her preschool photo taken last month, just a few weeks before she got her glasses. I really like two specific bits of it. When An...

I got this Shaker Maker set for Xmas round around 1978. I hadn't thought about it in 30 years until I was on Miller's webpage l...

On the left - my greenhouse with its missing back wall and detached door - storm damage that is covered by home insurance. On the rig...