Phyl's Blog

I'm beginning to suspect Amaia would have been better born at Halloween than New Year. Today, for some reason known only to her, she bur...

I was looking at fault lines and tectonic plates with Léon on google the other night - his latest interest. I happened to mention so...

I just got this in an email from Tesco. I know in the scheme of things it doesn't actually make any difference, but it's the w...

Marcel showed me this the other day. How can you do that with your body?

Marcel was just predicting words that in the future would change spelling because of young people misspelling them currently, citing aswell ...

While I'm ranting - the weather's put me in the mood... These uniforms might have been fine when I was small given how few women wo...

I was ranting a bit last week about the primary school's new jacket policy.   It seems to me ten days in that the jacket policy is goi...

Amaia went missing today at around four. We tried the usual places - the living room, the TV room, the dining room, our bedroom, all the...

I was just flicking through some old photos of the kids tonight when I came across this very happy shot of Anna when she was three months ol...

It's heart-breaking how clueless small kids are with wasps, especially now we're into crabbit wasp season. I watch Amaia in the gard...

I was looking through my old photos tonight for something when I came across this list. I remember it as if it was yesterday. Marcel had st...

For the ten years my kids have attended school, I have annually bought them three jackets each: a warm winter jacket they could use i...

How can it be that I have so many unpaired socks left at the end of every week? When I die, they will write on my gravestone: " Here ...

I will have one final rant about the new primary uniform before I give up... Getting down old gym clothes for Léon and Anna last week, I fi...

Léon has a Lego set similar to this. Léon loves Lego. Amaia's fine motor skills have just reached the point where she can use the sm...

My guys have got a new wee cousin - Catriona Angela, born last Friday. Anna and Léon are looking very proud here, on their first meeting. I ...

So, after a two-year consultation, East Renfrewshire's new uniform policy came into effect this morning. For Marcel that meant the op...

And at the same time, my other little girl became an even bigger girl. She's ready to stretch her wings and mind now and is becoming mor...

And so we are down to just one baby in the house... Isn't it only about ten minutes since Anna was born? I know she is ready and dying t...

I was drawn to this article today on the BBC as it was advertised under the title 'Does anyone still name their baby Derek?' Gi...