Phyl's Blog

I think one of my favourite things about kids, when they've only been at school a little while, is that wonderful phonetic spelling...

I'm not sure how Charlotte discovered the recipe but it works! Brownies in a mug, in less than a minute. Nobody's bothered to make ...

This photo of my girls with Siobhan's youngest daughter reminded me of a photo from years ago when Charlotte was the baby and Siobhan...

This month I didn't get beyond the first line in both French and German. Not only were they linguistically nonsensical, but that was...

Isn't it nice to see that today's kids don't need a PS3 controller in their hand to have fun? Léon managed a whole aftern...

Charlotte and one of her best friends, Aymen, were in Blackpool yesterday for the day. Having gone in to Starbucks for a drink, they wer...

Oh dear - it seems Amaia got a different end of the stick from the rest of us. We've been building this new hamster cage for a month n...

Still trying to find a way to use my lovage, I was pleased (if a little surprised) to hear Radio Scotland was discussing lovage today at 1:0...

I've been following HONY on a daily basis for about a year now. It just occurred to me I never mentioned it anywhere and although I ofte...

A few years ago Thomas and I were in the kitchen when the Combine Harvester song came on the radio. I laughed because I remembered it from ...

It started round about the same time as she learned to speak. 'I want earrings, I want earrings' and so it went on. I don't...

Coca Cola? Give us Scots Irn Bru any day! ;-)

So I tried the lovage and potato soup I mentioned the other night. .. Charlotte went first: This is quite nice, apart from that herby f...

Thomas is an intellectual. He is completely unable to lie on the couch scratching his balls in front of a football match, drinking a beer o...

I've recently started playing with this Instagram thingy on my phone. Given I use Nikon and Sony DSLRs usually, I tend to be a bit of a...

It has suddenly occurred to me (yeah, I'm slow) that I have had four gooseberry bushes in my garden for the last four years and every y...

I must be getting soft in my old age... When we got Rosie, it wasn't so much that we wanted a hamster, as we'd ruled out everything...

Thomas planted lovage in our garden four years ago. It was about the size of one of those plastic drinking cups you get with a water coo...

Last week we ate and sat outside all day every day. That was lovely but led to Léon becoming a little more autonomous than I might have...

Anna has been a hoot this last week. Since she started watching Léon doing his homework even before she started school so she easily shot u...