Phyl's Blog

When I moved in with Thomas the first thing I noticed on his bookshelf was a book entitled 'God mad'. I thought that was a rather st...

Since day one Nacho has been a fussy eater... in a good way. Nacho only eats dried cat biscuits. We offered him the expensive wet cat food s...

Yesterday, driving down to IKEA, Thomas and I were discussing how just 100 years ago the villages around where we live must have had every s...

At Easter we spent a night at Thomas's sister's house. That meant leaving Nacho in the house overnight alone. We weren't going t...

I considered not publishing this one. There are some things you don't talk about - like miscarriages, menopause, hysterectomies, and mas...

Well, that's me back from just under five days in Toulouse visiting my oldest daughter. The temperature was on a bit of a downturn, she ...

I'm concluding that Danes are a shy people. I moved to Stillebæk in the autumn of 2019. Ok, there has been Covid, but that didn't ha...

I just finished Viola Davis's book Finding me. I actually listened to it as an audiobook while I was driving the other day. I'm not...

I need to go over to Scotland again to help with emptying mum's house. I am looking at 14-18 May. I thought to maximise my time, I'd...

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...