Stephanie Butland

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Advice from Alan

Today I’ve asked Alan to show you one of his Christmas presents.

I bought it for him because I thought it summed up his approach to life beautifully.

I think you can see what I mean.

Fooled

Almost nothing in the body works in the way we perceive that it works. What we experience as a simple reaction – smell, touch, warmth – is a complex set of sensory, muscular and neural activity, so efficient and smooth that we can walk into a room and say, “Those lilies smell fantastic,” without it [...]

What I like in a man

We all know the standard list, don’t we? Good sense of humour, nice smile, nice arse. Well, my list isn’t quite standard.
Good sense of humour is essential, though. Yesterday, in the kitchen, Alan had me laughing so much that it hurt, and it isn’t the first time. (It was a visual gag with a cauliflower. [...]