Phyl's Blog

I've been pondering socks in cyberspace now for seven years. My mountain of odd socks has continued to grow and I suspect if I am eve...

Here's a photo of me with my dad's dad William taken back in 1968. And a photo of my French niece Isabelle taken back in 1986. ...

Anna announced yesterday that she'd like contact lenses because 'it is a shame to wear glasses when you have pretty eyes' . I am...

Last year I decided in a hurry to paint our play house. It had been blue for a few years (I'd used the leftover paint from our garden ...

Since Léon got his first glasses back in 2010 I feel like I've been accumulating specs. My bedside cabinet is bursting with glasses case...

I love Ymer and Ymerdrys. Unfortunately you've about as much chance of finding them in a UK supermarket as you have of trying to buy bu...

It just occurred to me I am running out of February fast and I have not yet publicly shamed my Italian calendar this month. I won't go ...

Picture the scene. Lots is five (pictured above). We've gone shopping in East Kilbride and I have been dragging her round clothing sh...

When Marcel and Charlotte were little I got this crazy idea to email myself little conversations we had together. They were snapshots of...

I love my kids's eyes. They are all so unusual but it is rare that you catch the actual shade - I was about to say 'on film' ,...

In some lights, because Amaia's hair and skin are so light and yet her eyes are quite dark, I swear she looks like one of those Victoria...

Friday had been world scouting (or something like that) day. Kids were allowed to go to school in their Beavers, Brownies, Sunbeams, Rainbo...

I came across this today while looking for a birthday card for my mate Carol. Do you think, given I was in Tesco, that they were hintin...

I changed my blogger background the other day from the snowy scene I had put on for winter because it felt too spring-like to keep it. My g...

Thomas grew up in a big manse (his mother was a minister) , with an even bigger manse garden. On one of our last trips there before Brita r...

I've said it often but every new day brings a further example of Charlotte's devotion to her baby sister and Amaia's complete tr...

My brain is already hurting this week. It's Monday and I haven't had a day off since February 2nd. Friday I had to work in Frenc...

I know some people love liquorice, and some hate it. I consider myself to be in that small category of people who are indifferent to it. I...

I had to laugh last week. Left to their own devices in the snow, my four youngest decided to build a quick snowman in the garden. There wa...

One of my old school friends joined a circus many years ago. No, this isn't a joke, she joined and later became manager of a circu...