Phyl's Blog

It's been interesting watching each of my three youngest kids' Danish development since we moved here in 2019. Obviously, they could...

For only the second time since I began this blog back in 2006, I seem to have blogged fewer than 100 days last year. I think, for the first ...

  When you know you're parenting right 😂😂😂  Amaia : Mum, do you think there's anything I could ever do that would make you disown...

I've been hiring cars several times a year since the spring of 1992. I have never before felt compelled to write a car hire review howev...

I know the Tories love to line the pockets of their friends but my god this Day2 PCR test nonsense takes the biscuit.  Here in Denmark we ki...

Marcel's done a lot of charity work over the years, from building irrigation systems in India, to volunteering in charity shops and soup...

How can destroying a young person's ability to educate themselves ever be good for a country? Charlotte is in 4th year at Glasgow univer...

When Léon was a small child, he had a bit of an allergy to blue food colouring. It always manifested itself as skin irritation, rather than ...

I don't think I saw the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton in 1974. Obviously I've seen the footage countless times since then, but...

 How adorable is this little boy?

Charlotte finished her year in Madrid at the end of June and stayed on for a month to work as a private tutor. Having been confined to Madri...

Léon's kilt pin fell off his kilt when he wore it to school on the last day. He only noticed it recently so asked me to order him a new ...

Back on May 16, we turned on Facebook and saw a strange status uploaded by our friend Simon over in Aarhus. His male (as he thought) cat had...

There's a big tourist attraction over here called Randers Regnskov . It's a bit like the Eden project in Cornwall with the addition ...

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...