Phyl's Blog

Amaia: I would really love it if you could find Gruffalo dressing-up costumes for me and daddy. I could sit on his knee and we could play...

Discussing Jurassic Park over lunch, I asked Léon if he had seen it when he was little: 'I'm sure we used to have it but it was o...

Growing up I hated school sports. I didn't mind the term when you had to do Scottish dancing but other than that I dreaded PE. I wa...

Lily Hamster

He must think my head buttons up the back! There I was this morning sitting on the downstairs loo (TMI) when I heard this conversation: ...

Amaia's been learning traditional Scottish songs at nursery this term. We've had Donald where's yer troosers , Ally Bally , T...

Here's a photo of Anna the last time she was in Copenhagen. She had just turned two! She has spent five days in Denmark ...

I'm working this evening so I ask the four kids who are home if they can entertain themselves. Léon heads for the PS3, Charlotte disa...

At this ripe old age, I learned something about myself yesterday. The 47 year old penny finally dropped... I was supposed to be working on...

Out shopping on Saturday evening when Amaia suddenly noticed: "Asda copied my fashion, mummy! "

Amaia came home today with Hamish McHaggis  and his diary to fill in.  We've all been there as parents: you get home some stuff...

Léon's always been a wee coffee lover. Even at three he knew how to make an espresso! We've told him he can have a little ro...

Amaia: Mummy, see when I finish nursery next month, can you put my nursery t-shirts, jumpers and jacket up in a bag in the loft for me?...

Amaia: Mummy? Me: Yes? Amaia: Do you think Charlotte was the actress who played Rapunzel in Tangled? She's got the same hair a...

Three years and one hour ago my dad died. It feels like a lifetime ago, and strangely, at the same time, it feels like an hour ago, a min...

A strange thing happened to me last week... It was Wednesday evening. Marcel asked if I'd drop him at work. Léon was on cooking duty a...

                    And so the decision has finally been taken.  Since the beginning of January Marcel has been evaluating the p...

First there was 22-4-15... ... then there was 27-4-15 I love this country...

It's been a bit of an emotional roller coaster week anyway. Marcel left school on Monday as I blogged the other day. As I sat ther...

I've seen a number of kids around Newton Mearns over the last week or two wearing various High School leavers' hoodies. That...