Phyl's Blog

Since I am being a right ranty besom up on my political soapbox most of the time at the moment, I thought I'd share a cute wee video bef...

I thought, given I'm a member of quite a few EU national support/information groups, it might be interesting to those of you who aren...

This morning's Guardian story about a woman being deported to Singapore has left me incensed! I am looking at it, of course, in the con...

Sometimes it is the one-liners that get you. Looking at the world through seven year old eyes never ceases to amuse! " Amaia:  'Mum...

I doubt many of you will have even heard of PR (permanent residency in the UK) but if you have a close friend or family member that have led...

I caught this on Facebook the other night. How can so much emotion be conveyed in less than three minutes? You laugh, you cry, you feel...

Yesterday was 'One day without us' here in the UK... not that you would know it, given 95% of the UK press didn't cover it but i...

Brita and Peter came over from Italy for a visit, bringing with them a large bag of assorted Italian sweets. Rather than asking them or us e...

Ten years ago. I always liked this photo. I don't think anyone had ever looked at me like that before and I'd never have known, had ...

Omg. Amaia made this video for Charlotte ( who's going to Nicaragua to do some charity work in the summer ). Isn't it the sweetest...

We've sat through a good couple of weeks now of people in the UK frothing at the mouth at the sheer cheek of Donald Trump to ban US inha...

I seem to be popular this morning  :-)  I expect Amaia will like the Evening Times headline best though - lol Congratulations t...

I was discussing the level of uncertainty facing mixed EU couples yesterday with my MP (and friend) Kirsten Oswald. She was...

Despite bobbing throughout the whole debate on the EU Nationals amendments to the Brexit Bill, myself and six other SNP colleagues were not...

I haven't been blogging as much as I used to for the past six months. I keep thinking to myself that I'll get back to it once I feel...

Thomas was asking me earlier about this video. I was sure I had blogged it last March when I filmed it but it turns out I'd simply be...

Celebrating Robert Burns at school. Amaia (skipping into school): heeheehee Me: What?  Amaia: I'm cheating, mum!  Me: What do you m...

Annual new glasses day!   A photo posted by Phyllis Buchanan (@phylbuc) on Jan 21, 2017 at 7:51am PST I take countless photos ev...

For the first time since yesterday's Armageddon speech I just managed a laugh thanks to my kids... Me: Anna you're on dishes ...

I found this old video footage the other day from January 2000. Marcel is 2 years and 5 months old, Charlotte is 7 days. Marcel has the...