Phyl's Blog

I used to drink my coffee black - when I was a kid that was. It was probably because my mum drank it black so didn't think to put any mi...

I was over in Scotland for four days - for the first time since February. So this was the first time I have been over to experience the effe...

I swear there are so many of these nasty we buggers on my pear tree at the moment I might start referring to it as my pear byke. I've be...

I mentioned we'd been talking about Charlotte's (and my) assistantship recently.  She always knew I'd been to France to do that ...

For the third night in a row, we've had another classic from Léon! Doughb' is on a roll! So tonight is was Amaia's turn to be on...

Léon got his glasses the first month of p1. He was five years old. I still remember sending in a note with him explaining we'd just foun...

Me : Léon, why are you wearing your Partick Thistle scarf?  Léon: Well, I'm watching the Spain Germany match and my German football top ...

Ever since Thomas spent a year at the university of Tbilisi learning Georgian or should I say ' სწავლობდა ქართულ ენას ' in his early...

Language assistantships have been high on the list of conversation topics in our house this year, for obvious reasons. They run in the famil...

The kids have been back at school for three weeks now. Unlike in Scotland I am no longer on the school run as there's a free school bus ...

I moaned about it last year after my stay in Alkmaar, so there's no point in my ranting again... I just feel that it always hits me wor...

It's been hot for at least the last fortnight... For the first time in my  life I came home from Southern Europe without being blasted b...

I thought, given that very few people are actually doing it, I'd give you a first-hand account of travel during a global pandemic. Obvio...

It's a girl thing in our family, for the most part, anyway. We are hardly out of the plane and the mosquitoes are queuing up to welcom...

At the beginning of corona, Amaia came home from school saying she'd been explained the concept of social distancing as 'stand as if...

Anna's eyes aren't the same colour - it's never been very noticeable because she got glasses when she was three, but since sh...

My ex-husband has decided to be an artist instead of an IT guy, so if anyone fancies a weird and wonderful painting all the way from China, ...

Taking the parasol with the broken button back to Ikea... I was a wee bit worried a SWAT team might try to take us out on the way in. 😂 ...

When schooling moved outside mid-April because of Covid, and May and June were amongst the sunniest we've ever lived through, it had a v...

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 ...