Phyl's Blog

Since nursery, birthdays have followed a specific pattern: your child goes off to a softplay, a party hall or their friend's house, they...

I know I am generally a little ray of sunshine in a grey world, trying always to see the positives whenever possible😂. I almost managed to ...

For anyone who saw my conker post   two weeks ago... Looks like I spoke way too soon!

One of the things I love most about Glasgow, from all my years living in the west end, is the tiled closes in the tenements. A quick google ...

We had been planning to go to Scotland for the October week to catch up with family and friends, but Ryanair decided on a last minute price ...

I'm just back from a week in the Netherlands so there will be a few wee stories popping up here over the course of the next wee while. ...

Just a thought... The government is willing to go for no deal (or the shit deal they came up with at the 11th hour) because they have found ...

Léon put up the house flag to welcome the family for dinner yesterday. It looks quite pretty, colorized.😁

The quest began in 1998 because that is the autumn Marcel learned to walk. And it continued for 20 years... At first we lived in a Wes...

On September 26 last year, at a routine gynaecological scan, a doctor found two tumours growing on my ovaries. Each was over 10cm across. Sh...

There are many house types in Denmark. Bogense is full of pretty quaint things in lots of pastel colours. Driving through the suburbs of...

My daddy taught me to drive when I was 17. He gave me pieces of advice I've tended to stick by, like if you see brake lights go on ...

    So, Three and Five are off today to Norway taking the ferry, returning on Sunday night via Sweden and Saga's famous bridge to pl...

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...