Phyl's Blog

Anna and Amaia love to watch the programme Operation Ouch . It's an educational children's programme to teach the kids medicine, a...

Cutest conversations overheard: Charlotte: What's the capital of Scotland, Amaia? Amaia: What's a capital? Charlotte: It...

I had a cute little conversation with my youngest today... Amaia: Mummy, I've got a brilliant joke! Me: Ok Amaia: It's in Da...

My boy, my flag, my parliament You don't get to vote away my family's right to exist without a fight. I have nothing more to sa...

In the aftermath of June's vote, Thomas and I joined both an EU citizen forum and a legal advice page for people with EU passports. Of t...

I've had this on the wall in my hall since I took it back when Charlotte was 8. Amaia has always wanted her own 'ketchup...

When I was Léon's age we went on our residential trip to West Linton and stayed in long wooden huts. I assumed the site had long sin...

When I had my first child in the summer of 1997, I didn't own a mobile phone. I went back to work full-time after the 29 weeks you we...

So she is going to trigger Armageddon next Wednesday. I feel physically sick. Of course, this limbo isn't any better... Part of me wants...

Well we get to school at 8-45. The p7s aren't to go in till 9-10 so their luggage doesn't trip anyone up. At 9-07 we get out the...

I've just had a rather surreal conversation with my youngest after turning her bedroom light out - you know the classic, age-old delay...

Just a little irritation - a bugbear, if you will... It seems to me that you are getting two types of media coverage in this country at th...

Sometimes something unexpected inadvertently gives you insight into your parenting successes... Charlotte is going to Nicaragua this...

If someone tries the old ' You've had your referendum ' comment on you, I suggest this link might help you shoot it down.

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...