Phyl's Blog

In October we went to London to visit Marcel and Milly (and their flatmate, Anton). It had been on our to-do list since they moved there at ...

I'm slowly developing a loathing of greenhouses. It started in 2009... interesting he didn't buy one in all the years we lived toget...

Having been at his school, with the same English teacher now for 18 months, Léon decided she was probably up to speed with his Glasgow accen...

I'm just back from a week in London visiting my son, his girlfriend and their flatmate who have been working there for the last three ye...

I have three kids living here in Denmark. All three have lived their whole life with me and Thomas, all three have grown up hearing Danish a...

...or how to make your foreign residents feel like second-class citizens! I have an ulterior motive for this post, and that is that I hate h...

I have too many windows in my house... 28 to be precise, not to mention the five main doors. I got it into my head, given we're in the m...

  This one is a bit more personal than my standard ones, but it gives me comfort and it makes me smile and is a memory I will cherish, so fo...

I've been a bit remiss on the blogging front this last year. I guess between my  boob problems  and my   mum dying suddenly  things have...

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, ...