Phyl's Blog

As I mentioned last week, Léon is finishing the equivalent of s4 here, which means leaving middle school and starting Gymnasium (a three-yea...

Today is Léon's last day at Havrehedskole in Morud. The way the education system works here in Nordfyns kommune is that you go from 1-3 ...

Two years ago today my kids entered the Danish education system with a decent knowledge of passive Danish and the ability more or less to ho...

I had to laugh yesterday when we were shopping for dinner in Rema 1000 (a Danish Aldi-like supermarket). The sheer look of indignation in Am...

Our old house didn't have any decent window ledges, this one does, and loads of them. And Thomas still hasn't got himself a proper g...

You know how, when you've loved someone, you never really lose them, not completely? For a moment in time, even just a split second, the...

While the restaurants were closed here because of the pandemic, one restaurant in the main square in Odense came up with the cutest idea whi...

As an explanation of the following post, here is a brief outline of the Danish school system my three youngest are going through: Here in No...

We've all bought one in ASDA or the likes - a little 10cm tall basil plant that you get in a pot and after you've used a few leaves ...

So the UK has gone into meltdown... not because of a 68% drop in annual exports, not because of 127 000 Covid deaths, not because the troubl...

I went to Eastwood High school from 1979-1985. I was distinctly lacking in musical talent so didn't spend much time in that department, ...

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...