Phyl's Blog

Since I bought Marcel a toast rack and egg cups for Xmas, people have been popping up asking me where I got them so I thought I'd stic...

They are called Easter lilies in Danish... which makes it all the weirder to find them growing and already in bloom on Christmas Eve in...

We all do silly things when we are young... such as thinking we can go out clubbing in town because it is the second last day of the schoo...

Me: What shall we make with the leftover turkey? Amaia: Fish and chips?  Gotta love her! (We got her to settle for curry eventually ...

I need a holiday. I don't mean two weeks on the beach in Barbados - well I do actually, but I just mean a holiday from my life! It...

Someone linked to this the other day. I remember the Sauchiehall Street lights always being a real treat when I was a tiny child so it was n...

Quote of the day from Amaia (4): But muuuum, it wasn't me who was arguing with my sister... it was my mouth!

So Léon comes up to me and comes out with: Léon: X (I'll anonymize to protect the spoilt wean! ;-) ) in my class comes up to me th...

Conversation overheard this evening between Anna (6) and Amaia (4): Putting on dressing-up clothes... Anna: I'm going to be a prin...

After last week's upset, we sneaked out on Tuesday morning to acquire a new family member. We got to see two boy hamsters and four gir...

The local primary must have been doing some slightly premature St Andrew's day celebrations today. Amaia and I were sitting in the l...

You can't spend 18 months living with someone without getting attached... On Friday our little Rose Hamster fell in her cage - she w...

This week it is springs instead of gadgets... First casualty was the mattress on our bed - a spring has popped through along either side -...

Anna has been desperate to lose a tooth (any tooth) since p1 when most of her friends starting losing theirs. Now, half way through p3 (w...

It didn't get off to the best of starts: Marcel offered to make us cappuccinos. He pressed the espresso button - this is usually follow...

I was on bedtime duty tonight. I read Anna and Amaia the book of Toy Story 3 and tucked them into bed. A bit hoarse after all my reading, I ...

Léon's to do some spelling revision for a test this week. His list of words (that apparently he might confuse!) is as follows: sore ...

Anna was sorting through her primary one papers the other day when she came across this, written when she had been at school for about ...

She came down to breakfast with this overlength ribbon hanging from the left hand side of her head... Me: Shall I tie your bow for you?...