Phyl's Blog

Why I love having kids, (over dinner): Charlotte: I bought a poppy at school today. Amaia: Yuck. Where is it now? Charlotte: I pinned i...

I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that I am going to ditch this namby-pamby American pumpkin nonsense from next year on. The de...

Here's Léon wedged happily between his two little sisters. After recent developments we had reached a strange situation where I partial...

Since Anna started school, years in her head have begun to correlate with school years. So there's no 2013 - there's August 2013 t...

Last weekend we decided to drop into Scotland Street School with the four youngest. Charlotte had been before but we thought it would be in...

With all this media interest down south about the christening of wee Prince Wotsit this week I happened upon an article about how christenin...

As I mentioned on Saturday , Amaia was having her pre-school sight test this week. I was all psyched up for future photos where all three h...

One of my friends uploaded this to facebook recently. Have I ever mentioned how much I love my Danish cheese knife and how I can begin to im...

One thing I discovered early on (around 20) is that these generic rhyming games written as English language lessons might as well all be tos...

Monday sees the beginning of the nursery's pre-school sight-check programme. Gulp... Marcel has perfect vision, as does Lots. I suspect...

It's been a difficult couple of weeks on the hamster front. First there was Brock. I found out how looking after someone else's ham...

I've complained before, and no doubt I will again but I really don't understand the business model of charging kids separately t...

I've been a parent now for sixteen years. I've had five kids. Surely there's nothing I don't know about little kids?... Don...

After Marcel turned 16 he changed his name to Buchanan by deed poll, leaving behind the baggage that went with a father and a family, who f...

You've got to love 3 year old language: Amaia: 'My friend Sahara likes eggs too'  Me: 'How do you know?'  Amaia: ...

I've had a traumatic morning, grammatically speaking. First I woke up to this: There I was sitting on the loo when I spied it, eve...

My non-Germanic native friends often say phrasal verbs are amongst the hardest parts of English grammar to grasp. I remember one friend (a...

Since Anna was seventeen months old both mummy and daddy have worked from home. Anna feels very safe in the knowledge that both her paren...

I'm quite computer and smart-phone-oriented. Until this term I have written all school appointments and dates to note on my kitchen ca...

I'm so proud of my big boy tonight. Here are the photos from the senior prize-giving where he came top in English and French.