Phyl's Blog

Denmark is quite a big little country. Until Thursday it was doing OK on the Corona virus front with not a single case. We could see from ho...

Here are my boys in their kilts - Léon in the informal one for a primary school leavers' dance when he was 11 and Marcel in the ...

A final comparison that I thought would be interesting is a map of my Scottish house and garden versus my Danish one shown to the same scale...

A wonderful thing about Denmark, is that they seem to have photo-documented it from the sky in a significant amount of detail, as far back a...

It was my birthday on Tuesday. Today I am 52 years and 2 days old. It is Thomas's birthday on Saturday. Today he is 47 years, 363 day...

Don't even speak to me today! There are no words to explain how utterly bereft this whole pantomime is making me. Tonight at midnight ...

Wee heads-up to my Newton Mearns mates: be careful if you're out shopping down in Greenlaw village. Someone opened my mum's handbag...

The girls's new passports just turned up. Ten days to go till the lunatics finally take over the asylum and still, they have decided to ...

When I lived in Italy in '86 one of my flatmates was in a fairly unhappy relationship at home, so took her summer school in Perugia as a...

Léon is very sweet. He's fully taken to his new life and is trying very hard to embrace everything as a true Dane. Last week he bou...

Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Just keeping a picture diary here of progress with the ' annex '. 

Saw this in Ikea last night - please someone pay me to proofread stuff, you know you want to!

Aha! I was right. My theory from back in November turns out to have been spot-on. There are two separate things here in Danish culture - th...

Today marks day one of the great conversion. When we moved in here we had not only a 70-odd m2 garage but also a further garage and tool roo...

I saw lots of people at new year uploading 'ten year challenge' photos, because we'd changed decade. I decided against that. I d...

The girls have been registered as Danish nationals since they were eligible - that is to say Anna became a Danish citizen upon our marriage ...

In my house we have twelve passports. That could go up to thirteen if Thomas manages to regain his German one (which his dad signed away w...

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...