Phyl's Blog

We have (or rather, had) two cars: the smaller yellow one, that we bought and that Thomas uses for work, and the larger one, the lease car, ...

I like to moan about the fact that the Billund - Edinburgh route is often, though not always, mothballed over the early months of the year, ...

When we moved to Denmark we decided to lease one car and buy the other - at home we had always bought cars cash, having saved up for them, s...

When you move to a different country half way through your childhood, you become a different person to the one you would have become... No s...

I woke up late and tired this morning - no wonder - someone stole an hour in the middle of the night... I'm not fully complaining - I lo...

Most grannies in cartoons and popular children's literature wear a skirt, round glasses, and have their hair swept up in a grey bun. The...

I enthusiastically wrote on 11 January that I hoped my blogging this year might pick up a bit after the health hell that was 2021. I genuine...

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...