Phyl's Blog

Awwwh - this is sweet. It turned up on my phone on Monday. The school had checked the weather forecast for the week and decided that becau...

Léon has got himself a nickname now - 'Scotty' - not the most original but easier to shout apparently on the football field if they ...

Here's an interesting observation from my eldest (schoolchild)... Most of what I have blogged so far about Danish school seems very po...

Every year for the last decade I have gone to this... sometimes I have sneaked out alone, other times I have managed to drag the whole famil...

I'm not sure I can find the words to explain how I feel watching the UK at the moment, from the safety of my Danish Brexile... That, des...

Léon has a concert tour of Norway coming up so is having to go straight from school to violin practice. Yesterday was his first day of pract...

I expect this might be a repeating topic for the foreseeable future.😁 First, I picked up Amaia who came out harrumphing. Me: How was you...

Had we still been living in the UK a week ago, our already broken sleep of the last three years would have of course been sent into overdriv...

Well, here's a difference between the school back home and here! Léon has been invited to a music school trip - residential, a whole wee...

The kids have both English and German as 'foreign' languages here, as well as Danish as the native language, of course. Anna brought...

I thought I'd take a photo of the local supermarket's 'back to school' aisle tonight to give you all a laugh. That is it in ...

My kids did music back home. Léon is starting his 7th year old violin and was a member of East Ren youth orchestra and East Ren folk band. A...

Looks like we've bought ourselves a wee house 😀 It comes with its own spare field (for the campers amongst you - though Thomas is m...

I'm sitting here listening to Virgin radio's breakfast show as I do every day after the school run... apparently according to this m...

It's been the weirdest back-to-school period in all my 17 years of parenting... I keep wakening up in a cold sweat wondering when it...

Having Danish nephews and nieces at school over the last decade or more, I know that the two sets of school holidays almost always coincide ...

At the age of eighteen I put on my first rucksack and it didn't come off again till I was 31! And even then it gave up on me rather...

We quickly discovered Bazar Fyn  in Odense on arrival here the first time back in April. The vast majority of the people shopping in it s...

As far as I can see, the majority of people who voted for Brexit in England did so because they had reached breaking point on the back of ye...

I'd have loved one of these back in Scotland. Lots of the public benches and picnic tables here in Funen have wee wind-breaker walls ...