Phyl's Blog

When I moved to Denmark, I registered as a resident but wasn't issued a residence card because I was an EU citizen. Two years later, tha...

  What a fucking joke! My ballot paper finally drops through my door at 10:41 on 2/7. Next uplift from the post office in the next town is 7...

I took this photo of Amaia the other week when we were down in Germany for the afternoon. It's very her; as you can see she becomes quit...

I could go on about the obvious whole first-past-the-post voting system that according to this interesting graph, published recently in the ...

For the past two or three years my husband has been having problems with his back and also some issues with arthritis, so it didn't stri...

Maybe I'm just slow, or naive, or dare I suggest too sweet at heart, but it has taken me a good number of days to realise I may have jum...

Thomas got the two of us those genealogy test things for Xmas as he thought it would be fun. He knew his dad was German, his mum Danish, but...

I'm not usually much of an anniversaries kind of person. If someone forgets my wedding anniversary, I'm not devastated. After all it...

Yesterday's post left me ruminating on the concept of equality, and its impact struck me more profoundly than I initially realised, ben...

It would appear Denmark has a new monarch.  Back on New Year's Eve I happened to see the Queen's speech. Normally I don't make a...

I know I know a language or two, but I wouldn't say my Spanish is quite up there at the level of some of the others I've learnt, tho...

Charlotte and I had an interesting experience the other night... Madrid is knee-deep in Xmas decor at the moment, so we decided every evenin...

My kids had a bit of a falling out with their dad back in 2012 and it took till this year for them to decide to visit him again. Long story....

Every so often I feel like writing about a quasi-taboo subject matter and then go to delete it once I have. But the only way to make those t...

So my boy is 18 today, except he isn't really! He was born at 23:45 on 29/09/05 in the Queen Mother's Maternity hospital in Glasgow,...

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...