Phyl's Blog

As I have now started blogging differences between Scotland/the UK and Denmark on my dedicated blog 'Contemplating Denmark',  I am w...

Like most people these days, we generally pick up the likes of cakes at the bakery counter in the supermarket, or did until we heard that th...

I drove past Anna and Léon's school at the weekend. It's the first time I've passed it since they were allowed back in last Mond...

I'm not sure why it has taken me 18 months to come up with this idea, but it suddenly occurred to me last week that rather than mixing m...

I think I have also managed to take the best shot of my house so far, though I'm not sure whether I prefer the first one, taken during a...

Last Saturday we went for a second walk at the coast. Temperatures had been hitting -10 all week with a windchill of -19, but even I was ama...

Denmark is a country of contradictions. It is both a welcoming country and a rather exclusive one. Since I moved here in 2019, I have found ...

I happened to upload a photo today of Amaia taking her sledge to school. Maybe I'm just getting too Danish to notice but of course, I wa...

Late last week we got notice from the Danish government that class 0 - class 4  (equivalent of p1-p6 in Scotland) would be allowed back to s...

I've lived the majority of my life less than an hour from the sea. The sea is my favourite place. Now I'm even closer - just under t...

What is it with boys? Or my younger one at least?  He's been stir-crazy for a month with this lockdown, so we suggested some fresh air i...

This little chap has taken to hanging about the neighbour's lake. Hopefully next time I seen him, I will have time to dig out my tripod ...

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 ...