Phyl's Blog

Denmark is weirdly flat, not quite the Netherlands flat but flat enough that there are points where I have stood on this island (Funen) mayb...

When we got the cats, we discussed whether to give them English names, given we are an English-speaking family, Scottish names, given we are...

Anyone who has been living in Denmark since the last general election (1/11/22) knows all about 'Store bededag' or 'Great prayer...

Danes are great at English. By the time most Danes reach end of Scottish primary school age, they can understand a thousand times more than ...

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...