SubscribeI’m excited to have been asked to contribute to a book, ‘What I Wish I Knew about Cancer’, part of a series of books in which our older selves give advice to our younger selves. There’s a whole raft of them, covering all sorts of topics – love, motherhood, and one I’m looking forward to [...]
Bah! to cancer
Breast cancer had a pop at Stephanie. It really wishes it hadn't.
Category: book
‘Tis done
‘Thinking, Laughing, Living, Dancing: how I said Bah! to cancer’ by Stephanie Butland with a foreword by Dr. Edward de Bono is finished. All 59,544 words of it.
Of course, there will be more to do. If it goes further, I’m sure there will be changes, and rewrites, and further edits.
But for now, I can say: [...]
In passing
You may have noticed a certain drive-by quality to my blogging over the last few days.
Obviously, the family and I have been Very Busy buying a house, and doing everything that goes with it: driving up and down to Northumberland, seeing lots of houses, talking about houses, talking about how lovely our new house is, bursting [...]
Some Bah! BBB results
Results 1:
A little while ago, there was a Bah! BBB Bonus of ‘It Is Just You, Everything’s Not Shit’ by sunny Steve Stack. The lucky winner is MummyMad. (I think I have your address. so it’s on the way.)
Results 2: Bah! BBB 1 August
Without Alice by DJ Kirkby (signed copy) goes to Alison Wells. (Gina, [...]
Bah! BBB 1st August preview
For this round of the Bah! BBB, I’m going to try running 5 separate giveaways, one each week.
I thought you might like a sneak preview of the fabulous books that will be on offer on 1 August…..
I’ve given some more detail, and links to reviews, below. Also, clicking the name of the book will take [...]
Guest blogger: Serena Alam
I asked Twitter for guest blogs on how to choose what to read next. (I am all too often seduced by 3 for 2 tables in bookshops and end up reading things I didn’t really want to read at all, and don’t especially enjoy.) Here’s one perspective, from @ProofersR_us. I like it very much.
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Forget quantum physics [...]
Another BBBB bonus
The winners of the last BBBB bonus – a copy each of ‘Their Cancer: Your Journey’ by Anne Orchard - are Mason, Debby and Betty. Please email me your addresses and I will get them in the post.
In the week of the Blue Sky Movement, this seems like a good book for a BBBB Bonus.
It’s [...]
BBBB bonus!
I have three copies of a terrific book to give away today.
‘Their Cancer- Your Journey: A Traveller’s Guide For Carers, Family and Friends’, by Anne Orchard from Life in the Cancer Fallout Zone, is a guide to being the friend or family member of someone dancing with cancer. It has sound advice and useful insights and [...]
Loose ends
As an aside from normal blogging business, a few things.
1. The Bra Of Magical Uplift is the aptly named Goddess Bra. The website is here. Happy shopping. (If you are a bra designer, look away now, as I don’t wish to make you weep…. I took the bit of boning out of the side as [...]
An auction
Dancing with cancer has taught me many things. Here are two of them.
1. Most people are good people.
2. Twitter rocks.
Why am I reminded of these in particular today? Well, it’s a bit of a tale, so get comfy.
Twitter divides the world pretty evenly. People either embrace it, or can’t see the point. This is nowhere [...]
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- Mr Whiskers is settling in. He doesn't like the look of the rain I have explained it's the same rain as in London but he doesn't believe me.
- @taniaglyde You're right. And I don't even know how 'top' is defined. Just my 'top of the class' competitiveness coming in to play!
- I have gone from 5th to 8th to 14th top UK health blogger according @Wikio. It's good I don't take any notice of these things. *sulks*
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