Phyl's Blog

(Overheard after school today...) Charlotte: What did you have for lunch today, Amaia?  Amaia: Duckling Charlotte: Duckling??? ...

I'll just leave this with you! Gulp! (Have a look at the gallery on this page too)

Sometimes, usually in fact, life with five kids is fairly harmonious... very occasionally though, little tiffs can occur... tonight was on...

About two years ago I bought a sprig of broom in a pot - it was literally one stalk and cost about £1-49. I planted it in front of my front ...

Apparently it is ten years ago today that I joined blogger. I have more kids now, a different job, a different home and a different husba...

I'm beginning to suspect my daughter has inherited her parents' love of school PE! The conversation in the car went like this: ...

Anna: You know those wishing wells, mum, where you throw in money and make a wish? Me: Yes - like the one we saw at Edinburgh zoo last ...

As I was getting dressed this morning I could hear my wee-est three discussing whether or not they 'had it all'. Having just returne...

So it's so-called Star Wars day , and even more than any other year Léon is fit to burst with excitement. He's refusing to do all ho...

Conversation overheard between my wee girls: Anna: What's your dream job, Amaia? Amaia: emmm nun! (I panic that my atheistic tendencie...

One day last weekend Anna came out with this and it got me to thinking: I wonder what it must be like to have only Scottish relatives... ev...

I grew up with cats. First, there was the grumpy, chunky one with the odd name 'Snoopy' (we were kids...

Overheard on a car trip: Léon: ...then I'll pretend to be a serial killer... Anna: what?  Léon: it's someone who steals your br...

It's funny. When you have nearly 13 years between your kids, you wonder what, if any, relationship they'll have growing up. But one...

One of the p1 teachers at Amaia's school left over the Easter break to take up a new job at the primary school on Millport . Amaia ...

Scanning some old photos last year, I came across this one, taken on 5/4/86. I remember it vividly because Derek and I had thought it a g...

Charlotte has been doing some past listening papers for her Nat 5 Spanish exam. She then goes on the SQA webpage to check the marking sc...

although in a more westerly direction... Back when Marcel was in fourth year at high school, he was chosen as one of the forty pupils...

Amaia has been a great sleeper since she was about one. I can honestly say I can't remember the last time she (or for that matter, an...

Today, in some parallel universe, I am celebrating my silver wedding anniversary! Even writing that down seems insane as I don't fe...