Phyl's Blog

Water droplets of nothingness...

Sunday, June 30, 2019

How our Danish schools do birthdays

›
Back at our Scottish school, I used to find birthdays a bit of a burden. I had five kids (granted I only ever had three at primary at the on...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Things... #3

›
...you don't see on the school run in Newton Mearns. A garden with a traditional windmill on the driveway up to their house!
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Things... #2

›
...you don't see on the school run in Newton Mearns. A wee 'gingerbread' cottage by a lake. (Appearances are deceptive - it...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Deregulation

›
      In Scotland we had built up an amazing garden over the 12 years we were in that house. By that I don't mean amazing by the ...

Things... #1

›
...you don't see on the school run in Newton Mearns. I thought I'd do a wee photo from time to time of things that make me stop on...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Braving the liquorice

›
I've mentioned their liquorice fetish before, but I'm now surrounded by it. On my first day back over here a couple of weeks ago...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

A different take on lollipopping

›
This one is for my friend Stephanie! Back at Kirkhill, we had the best lollipop lady. I won't go into the details because I already ha...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Léon's first Danish lesson

›
Léon was always going to approach this in a cocky and positive manner. To be honest, I've been quite apprehensive that he might crash an...

First school trip

›
As school is winding down towards the summer break, school trips are the thing this week. On her first day Anna was told there are two (fr...

Danish school - day one

›
Since we had our tour of the two Danish schools last Thursday, we've had varying degrees of bravado and worry vis a vis going to school ...
Friday, June 07, 2019

Flowery selfies

›
I took this photo back in Italy in 2017. We'd found a stunning field of sunflowers by the roadside in Poppi in Tuscany. Amaia rem...

Danish school - part one

›
So this is how the 'little' three started the school session 2018-19. And on Tuesday, I'll update it to how they are finishing...
Wednesday, June 05, 2019

Camping holiday?

›
We went shopping today in Flensburg in Germany. The big hypermarket was selling four-man tents for the summer holidays, but not just any fou...

Love to travel

›
I've been a traveller much longer than I have travelled... From the first time I heard a foreign language, I knew I needed to escape...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

House selling - episode one

›
I'm starting this series of blog posts the week the house goes on the market, but I expect I won't be hitting the 'publish...

House selling

›
We're selling our house at the moment in a bid to escape the asylum before Brexit bites, so feel free to share this link to  our house  ...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Bob Marley

›
I woke up early... one of the downsides of middle age, I guess. Having exhausted all other options, I stuck my music on shuffle and was lyin...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Ok, what am I doing wrong?

›
Ok, so what is it I'm doing wrong? I'm way too snowed under at the moment to read the instruction manual or watch the tutorials. ...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Photo

›
Isn't this a pretty photo of Thomas's new car? I took it on the beach at Flyvesandet the other day.
Saturday, April 06, 2019

Basement flats in Edinburgh

›
Having lived in the west end of Glasgow for many years, I thought I knew what basement flats looked like... These, in Hamilton Park Avenue, ...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Phyl
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.