Phyl's Blog

I know I am being pedantic, and I know I shouldn't proof-read everything but after more than 20 years in publishing I can't help it!...

I was skimming it to see what this month's funniest faux pas would be. Would it be French this month or German? The language was poor a...

I noticed the other day when I happened to see Léon and Marcel having a conversation standing in the doorway that there is a huge differen...

My children's linguistic awareness blows me away at times. Maybe Thomas and I talk shop too often over dinner and it is turning them i...

I see Perugia is back in the news this week, once again for the same reason as usual. It is sad that in most English-speaking people's ...

6:00 am Léon arrives at the foot of my bed and announces 'Mum I'm sick'. He'd been complaining about a sore throat last n...

There are some conversations that are so (subtly) sweet you have to grab them for posterity. So last night's conversation went like thi...

Does anyone else remember when jumping on the bed was this much fun? Amaia had a whale of a time on my bed this afternoon. Three is such...

Here are two photos taken exactly 362 days apart in the same place. I think they speak for themselves!                              27-...

Kiddie priorities can be mind-boggling at times. I drove Léon to Beavers tonight and then on to Sunbeams with Anna which starts ten minutes...

Amaia's decided she's a big enough girl to choose her own clothes now :-/ So what else would you go for on a day when it's...

Well what do you know - it's hereditary! What? The spacial geometry gene :-( Anna started school in August. I had been a wee ...

It's interesting. I was on Borgen's facebook page the other day when I came across some English native speakers discussing this pa...

Anti-D is meaningless to 83% of the UK population. In fact given half of the rhesus negative people are probably men and another 20% ar...

I think my dad would have liked Yes Scotland's new poster. (Recognize anyone?)

When Léon grew out of his high chair he went onto a booster seat. When Anna grew out of her high chair she too went onto a booster. We m...

The Unionist bias in the Scottish press is really starting to irk me. Let's take this morning's little gem of a message at face valu...

And just to redress the balance on tonight's posts I thought I'd share this kiddie cooking idea we've been discussing tonight on...

I know I'm not much of a ranter ;-) in general but tonight I am outraged! As always the primary kids were given all their homework on...

And while I'm on a rant anyway... I don't get how this country is meant to work. First of all I read yesterday that an average nur...