Phyl's Blog

Hahaha - you see the funniest sights sometimes! Léon's 'furloughed' from his dishwasher job at the local restaurant at the momen...

  Last year we brought haggis back from Scotland at New Year for our Burns supper, but between Covid banning us from travel and Brexit banni...

Charlotte is of course loving getting to be in Madrid for a year but it isn't how she would have chosen it to be. She wanted to travel r...

  So this hideous little thing just dropped into my letterbox. Apparently getting this flimsy black piece of shit was worth billions in red ...

Denmark was one of the last countries to adopt masks. We didn't require them in shops, schools or elsewhere during our first, and by Eur...

I remember growing up in Glasgow - my gran was quite a superstitious woman... aka mad as a brush. Many traumatic Hogmanays were spent on our...

Just to prove that things never turn out quite as you may have imagined them, and yet they work out fine for all that! If you'd told me ...

I wasn't sure whether I was going to blog about Brexit. But I figure that if I don't write about it this week, I am not sure I will ...

  For nylig diskuterede jeg nogle gamle fotos af vores landsby med landsbyens indbyggere. Selvom jeg kun har downloadet billeder af mit eget...

2020 is turning out to be a unique Xmas for many. In 2019, when we decided to emigrate, I forgot to qualify my promises of many shared holid...

Many months ago in the local Arab market, we found these moulds. I am not sure what they use them for but they looked like a great option fo...

I don't personally know anyone who's had Covid. Of course, I've heard of many friends of friends, classmates of my kids and even...

When we lived in Scotland, we always bought our Xmas tree from Ikea. For a £25 tree, you got a £20 voucher to spend in Ikea, and my family c...

My first car was quite basic - this isn't a perspective thing, it really was that size! I think it is the only car I've ever owned w...

Last time I owned a snowsuit I was probably a year old... In fact, it was the 60s, so I am betting I probably never owed one, other than som...

 On last Saturday morning's radio breakfast show - DR P4 Fyn. Here's a link .

I should have guessed back when he was a wee baby, exactly how his career was going to pan out... Even as a small baby he was desperate to p...

 Thomas was on the radio this morning about Brexit😊 Listen from 1 hour 09 minutes in.

Léon's first starring role on Danish national TV!  It isn't so much his fifteen minutes of fame, as his 19 seconds😂

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