Phyl's Blog

I was sitting here a year ago today having a look at my blog statistics for the previous six years and I noticed I had been blogging on aver...

She may only have turned five last week but she's definitely mastered all the phonetics of English already, reading all the signs she s...

I was shopping months ago in Makro when Thomas spied a pile of Guinness surgers beside the cases of Guinness at the back of the shop. He go...

I wasn't very well on Xmas Eve - another dose of the dreaded gastritis that seems to be plaguing me at the moment. To keep the kids ou...

I thought Marcel was insane when he sneaked out of Derek's house at 8am (having gone to bed around 3am) to walk into Glasgow to meet...

I imagine my parents never expected to have eight grandchildren. You probably don't when you have only two kids. But here they are, f...

Léon put this hat on on Thursday morning and has not actually taken it off since except to wash his hair, and for one photoshoot as a lion. ...

Ok, I officially give up. The cards on sale in specialized shops such as Clintons and all the big supermarkets are hopelessly inappropriat...

Don't you just love those completely surreal discussions/arguments little kids have? Today's little gem in the car went something l...

For the first time ever today I was seriously disappointed that my man isn't really (how should I put it?) one for pyjamas! You see I...

Having a birthday Xmas week is far from ideal but it doesn't seem to have upset Anna. She got to star in her p1 nativity twice on he...

You know me, I like to rant and I haven't had a good rant about the school uniform for at least a month! ;-) I keep hearing, from t...

Where was the person in charge of market research, when weetabix came up with this for sale in the Scottish market? The mind truly bog...

Lussekatter , a photo by hepp on Flickr. I recently tried Swedish saffron and raisin buns for the first time ever. They are so delicious...

I've never had a mobile phone with a decent camera. I would never use a phone instead of a camera - they don't quite live up to ...

When we were in Ikea about a month ago they had some flyers lying about. Having studied Swedish (and Abba!) in my youth, I knew about Sa...

Wandering around George square with my camera last Sunday, I happened to notice I was the only member of my family who hadn't been tran...

I came across this on Facebook last month and thought it'd be cool to try if we get a cold winter like two years ago. Given we...

Photoshopping is a great idea. You can get rid of those ever-so-annoying red eyes. If there's a lamp post coming out of someone...

I was whiling away my time last night in Primark waiting for Léon to finish a Beavers outing to the Xscape ski slope. Looking for a fleece...