Phyl's Blog

This year's ludicrous haul - thank goodness I only let the out alone for 90 minutes or they could have developed full-blown diabetes bef...

This is a must-read for anyone who doesn't grasp the complexities of Brexit for mixed UK/EU families. It's almost laughable to adm...

I grew up in the 70s in Scotland attending a 'non-denominational' primary school in a suburb of Glasgow. For non-denominational in G...

Anna's been researching John Muir (from 1838) for school. One of the first facts she found out was that he was one of eight children. Th...

Having some fun with autumn colours.   

Charlotte turned 17 in January and wanted to learn to drive immediately (not sure why given she hasn't a hope in hell of affording a ca...

Léon's school has organised an s3 Maths trip to NYC for the October week... I'm not sure how they got away with that one but well do...

Here we all are in 1990. Young, though older than we look, Linda and I are 22, Shona, Sheina and Gillian are 23. That was a great day; ...

Ever since I had kids, we've spent October in parks searching among the leaves for conkers... Early on, when Marcel was two or three ...

Another little souvenir I'd have liked to have brought back from Amsterdam was a pair of boots. These caught my eye in a shop window and...

Playmobil and Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum have got together and come up with an adorable way of making art accessible to the tinier among...

Where do we stand today, mum? How close are we to knowing whether we'll need to leave? That's what I was asked this morning o...

Léon comes across as a laid-back, happy boy. He can run a little bit on nervous energy, but in general things don't seem to get him down...

Thomas has decided to challenge the kids with this month's chores chart. Apparently it's the typeface his German grandparents were t...

I meant to blog a link to this when she came back at the beginning of July, but we left for Italy then and I never got round to it... Im...

It's only Wednesday today. It feels like three weeks on Friday... It started at the beginning of last week. Charlotte casually asked m...

I think this is my favourite photo from this year's holiday. Amaia had been given a rather old photo so she could take photos and s...

It's been a long time since any of our kids crawled into our bed during the night, probably 5 years or more. Friday night, something ups...

As I mentioned in the passing last week when I was discussing Lots's exam result, there has been a change in our financial circumstance...

Every family has its own made-up words. For instance, we Buchanans all call a digger a jalt . This came from an encounter I had at three wi...