Phyl's Blog

I like this photo: Charlotte, a millennial herself (born less than 73 hours into this millennium), as she captures nearly two millennia of...

They ask you the sweetest questions sometimes: Léon: Mum, are your earrings venison? Me: I think you mean Venetian Léon!  (And yes, they...

I love it when little kids start to experiment with style. Anna is currently going through the 'trying to look like what she imagines a ...

Which one can you relate to? Or maybe? I may have one kid more and no cats (for now) but I can definitely relate to her as I sit up ...

There I was doing gardening when my Finnish friend walked past clutching her bag of goodies from the newly opened 'Home Bargains'...

My three youngest kids were invited to stay at their cousin's house on Saturday night because it was their cousin's birthday. That m...

Twelve years ago I walked this little boy to school for the very first time, his two year old sister in tow. We posed for the ob...

Thomas and I are slowly coming to the conclusion we had our kids too late... I know I couldn't have had them much earlier, given when ...

You can tell my kids aren't fully Scottish when you are in a big city at over 30 degrees and running around madly after pigeons seems ...

It's funny - today so many people are devastated that the comic genius is gone but am I the only one who couldn't watch his comedy? ...

Another quote from our shared bath this evening. Pointing at my boobs: "Mummy, do you remember when I was little and you used to giv...

I just had the sweetest conversation with Amaia... Although it's been months since she last saw Monsters Inc, she suddenly decid...

I was trying to think about what to write about Marcel today. But I think this (doctored to remove candidate numbers) speaks for its...

Have a read at this if you're not already a YES. There is no status quo to go back to.

We've had some fantastic quotes this week from the little people so I thought I'd log them here for posterity. After Marcel had b...

I've just had a very sweet conversation with my youngest: Amaia: When's Catriona coming to play? Me: Later Amaia: Is their wh...

This has seriously been pissing me off since I saw it last week, but I haven't had the time to rant! Even if we ignore the manipulativ...

A powerful speech: and as someone who considers my family to be Scottish, Danish, French, German, European and even a tiny bit English, on...

Amaia's done a self-portrait today at nursery. I can't help but wonder if she's imagining herself in middle age when I look at i...