Phyl's Blog

It's pyjama day at the primary today - I think they are trying to raise funds for some playground equipment, or something like that......

Charlotte has slowly spent the last eighteen months trying to accumulate the money to go off on a World Challenge expedition. In 2014   Marc...

Marcel dropped by for a few hours last week. Well, more truthfully, Marcel and his flatmates turned up here at 1am one ...

Thomas cut the grass for the first time last weekend. I cut the edges. As I stand in the kitchen looking out over my garden, everything l...

I am not very musical. I mean, I enjoy singing along to the kitchen ipod while I am doing the dishes as much as the next man, but my abil...

I had a vague memory from my childhood about a chat I had either with my mum or my dad about nicknames. They told me they had ruled out the ...

Various members of my family have down with a new ailment over the past two or three weeks - speckyitis. Sigh. Given I've bee...

With the immaculate timing of freelance, the two weeks of full-time work I'd been expecting last December turned up the first day my kid...

It was not without some measure of relief, that I blogged back in 2013 that Amaia had passed her nursery eye test.  At the time ...

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...