Phyl's Blog

We had a Spanish girl staying with us for three weeks. Since she was 18, Charlotte has au-paired off and on for Sara and her little sister P...

Quick update on yesterday's blog post :  Charlotte finally found out yesterday that she was one of the lucky few who would be told her f...

It's been a wild ride. The five years of Charlotte's university life have been, shall we say, an unorthodox mix of trials and tribul...

Thomas got himself a Norwegian (the airline) credit card a few years back, mainly because it gives you 1% cash back and free air miles. Afte...

Every time in the last two years that I've tried remounting the blogging horse, life has thrown me from the saddle. From mastectomies to...

It's taken six weeks for me to be able to even write the words. Six weeks ago today someone ran my Nacho over and left him dead by the s...

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...