Phyl's Blog

I can never find the recipe I use to make Scottish potato scones, so I'm putting a link here for future reference.

... or narrower still, Danish problems. Now here's something I never in my wildest dreams thought would become a dilemma in my life, and...

Yesterday I had my PD3 language exam. PD3 is the highest official Danish ministry exam set at the level you need to pass to obtain Danish ci...

Tonight Scotland is attempting to reach an international tournament for the first time since 1998 (7 years before he was born). He's thr...

Over dinner Léon and I are discussing a reality TV programme he's meant to analyse for his Danish class... He's having a good old mo...

Our family's Brexit relationship with the press began when I first blogged back in March of 2018 that our family had decided to brexit ...

I'd never heard of chestnut soup until I happened to mention in my language class last month that I had a chestnut tree and suddenly the...

Quote of the evening... Léon bakes this, bites into it and proclaims: oh my god, my future wife is so lucky! 😂😂 Love that boy.

So, it's been just over a year now since we moved into our latest 'forever home'. A time to reflect on which things conformed to...

This garden just keeps giving. We've had apples, pears, plums, cherries and berries till they're coming out our ears. Lately we'...

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 ...