Phyl's Blog

I noticed from day one there was a loft hatch in my garage but I hadn't bothered venturing up. I'm not sure why I didn't, prob...

For fun on the last day of school, given there are no uniforms, so you can't have a dress as you please day, Léon's class decided ...

England has lost its mind, its heart and its soul. And although Scotland has voted against everything England has championed, I suspect once...

I'm in Scandinavia now. Xmas should be all dark nights and cold and twinkly gardens with candles oozing that hygge all the magazines bac...

At home, I found petrol prices would hover around a figure, shifting very little until there was some spurt or other, then they'd jum...

How cute is Amaia in this shot from November 2010... with her wee cute lilac snowsuit and her rosy cheeks!? Babies and toddlers always look ...

I was having a good old rant last week about my voting papers. Having been in Scotland for 48 hours more than three weeks ago, my mother (in...

It is interesting to compare places of a similar size. Near where I live is a town called Søndersø. It has a large crisp producer (as you ca...

You come across the weirdest things sometimes - this looks more like the Loch Ness monster than any of the statues kicking about Drumnadroch...

What an absolute joke the Westminster voting system is! Apart from the obvious fact that you can get a majority with 75%+ of the country vot...

We've been prettifying the house and garden with nice lights - there's much more scope here with a big house and garden. After we pu...

I think I have mentioned the concept of TV advent calendars more than once over the years. In Denmark the national TV channels put on a ...

Sitting here having breakfast looking out over my next-door neighbour's lake when it suddenly struck me how odd that sounds. Imagine ...

I've always driven abroad - already in 1987-88 I shared a car with my German flatmate and again in Germany the following year, so I have...

I'm going to have a wee rant - more at myself for being gullible and stupid, in fact, than at the crooks and deceivers, really. Two au...

Over the weekend I went to Scotland for two days to see Charlotte, Marcel and mum. I asked the kids if they wanted me to bring anything ...

At first, just after the clocks changed, I thought Danes were all a wee bit over-eager with Xmas. Almost immedia...

Conversation with Amaia: Amaia: I think I should be allowed to vote in the general election!  Me: Really, why? You're only 9!  A...

A few months ago on one of my many flights into Denmark, I came in to Billund over Blåvand. I thought its shape, and obviously very l...

I've been here for many many months now and a strange thing happened to me yesterday... I had to use money! (Amaia had to take a 100Kr...