Phyl's Blog

I know this will come as a shock to the many of you who probably, like me, think Marcel is still wee and cute and cuddly - I did only have...

Fascinating - we've all read it so often.

I didn't really discover the finer nuances of Scandinavian culture till my late thirties. I had my preconceived notions of course but ...

If you missed this last night, it is well worth a watch.

Léon has the most amazing hair. I think if it gets much longer we might actually be able to spray it orange and turn him into a lion!

, a photo by marcelbuchanan10 on Flickr. I know I've said it before but when you find the two of them (number one and number five) pla...

The topic of women's suffrage has come up over dinner on several occasions recently as both my older kids are studying various aspects ...

Just saw this on Facebook - it's well worth a share to start this Monday morning ;-) I just love weegie humour. (Apparently hi...

I'm not sure if it is the sheer size of my family that has changed the way I approach life compared to many of the people around me... ...

I was reading about the Swiss vote on pay in the Financial Times last week. We have been hearing since the 80s that the rich are getting ri...

I'm feeling a tad frustrated on the Danish front...  When Thomas and I first got together we visited Denmark several times a year and...

I quite like this photo I took yesterday. Thomas was standing in the morning sun across the water from me looking very mysterious so I s...

I took this photo of Charlotte in the park yesterday. She turned to look at me half in the shade of a tree and as I took the photo I noticed...

There I was going about my daily business when this story jumped off Facebook's page at me. I had to sit down from shock! Once I'd...

I love the way kids as young as two or three are already so competent with technology. No sooner had I left my phone down on my bed this mo...

So it's -2 and our heating has packed in (thanks boiler!) We're scurrying around the house looking for things to warm us up. Two, th...

I was out last month for lunch with two of my old uni friends in the West End. The waiter in the café mentioned that their special of the...

I've always had a bit of a thing about ferns. My granny had a fern in her garden when I was a child and I used to sit and watch, fasci...

The homework instruction read 'Read your words, cover them and write them out three times from memory, without looking'. I thin...

I was born with three grandparents. (The untimely death of my grandmother, five days before my birth, changed my name (from Linda to P...