Stephanie Butland

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Cancer Free Friday: Danish String Quartet

A couple of weeks ago, I went with Alan and Beloved Auntie Susan to hear the Danish String Quartet play. They were fabulous. They didn’t play this piece of music, but this little film gives you a sense of their skill, passion and general handsome Danishness. It’s less than three minutes long. Go on, click, [...]

Cancer Free Friday: more reasons for knitting

So, I was thinking of what I could add to the 2010 list from yesterday. Here goes.

10. Knitting helps me to think.

This is my current Thinking Sock, which lives in the studio, and shows you what 20,000 words of a novel looks like. Whenever I get to wondering what’s going to happen next, I have [...]

Cancer Free Friday: let’s go fly three kites

I remember many a summer holiday afternoon spent running up and down a caravan site with my Dad and brother, a kite bumping along the ground behind us.
The only time we ever got a kite in the air, I let go of the string. I can still see it now, drifting away, and feel the [...]