Phyl's Blog

I took Amaia to the optician the other day to pick up her new glasses. While she was fitting Amaia's glasses, I decided to chat to the ...

Interesting conversation: Amaia: When I grow up I'm going to be a fashion designer. Me (surprised): Really? I didn't know you wer...

I've been puzzling over this for a year now... How can it be that this trip (350km/217 miles each way using a train, a coach and a fer...

Yesterday morning in Glasgow there were four flights from the usually busy international airport. We'd managed to get a ticket fo...

Maybe I'm just getting old, but can someone explain to me why these have suddenly become the must-have fashion item for teenagers around...

Denmark mostly doesn't feel like a very foreign place but just sometimes you some across a situation you would never encounter at home.....

I started my Lærdansk course on the 3rd of January. All foreigners who move to Denmark are eligible for a course in Danish to help them inte...

Last night we went to Ikea to buy a bed for Lots, assuming the buggers on the border ever let her come home 😒 As we were walking toward...

After a month at school alone, Amaia was finally joined this morning on the school bus by her older siblings. Léon is so excited he's go...

It has been an exciting week in lockdown world. First on Wednesday I went to IKEA for the first time since it reopened and there were people...

One thing we have noticed here, now the under 11s have been back at school for three and a bit weeks, is the toll it's taking on their...

My orchard has burst into life in the last few weeks - we are going to have so many apples, pears, plums and cherries this year😋 a...

I'm never fully sure whether I love or hate Thomas's car - nicknamed 'the boge' (short for bogey) by the kids. It is true th...

I'm beginning to notice an unexpected consequence of the new way Denmark is schooling its under-11s. Amaia has been back at school for...

Like a tiny ray of sunshine in all this chaos, I went shopping in Aldi yesterday and discovered that this week's special in the ...

Well, this is going to be controversial but it does help sometimes to see ourselves as others see us... I have lived in Denmark for nearly...

Lovely wee video of Glasgow in Corona lockdown. Hopefully once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the city empty.

Today's outdoor art lesson was 'tree trolls'. Each kid was given a tree and some clay in the playground and made to make a troll...

Growing up in Glasgow in the 70s, there wasn't an awful lot of playground equipment - no climbing frames or pirate ships graced the...

Conversations you only hear under lockdown: Anna: My German teacher had her clothes on for today's lesson!  Me: What does she usually...