Stephanie Butland

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Tag: hope

Bah! revisited: It’s not as cold as I thought

My Grandma Breeze had a five year diary and always said that one of the things she liked about it was the fact that every day she would look back to see what was happening this time last year. I’ve started doing that with the blog, sometimes, and given all the things that I’m thinking [...]

Another anniversary

This is the season of anniversaries for us. Alan and I will celebrate 8 years of marriage and 13 years since what, in retrospect, we consider to be our first date (although at the time it was simply a convivial meeting over dinner). It was 28th  October 2008 when I got the cancer diagnosis, so [...]

More cake

The Big News broke while I was away training in Edinburgh. When I got home, at about 8pm, I was met by Joy, who had baked a surprise for me.

(The cupcakes are stuck to a glass chopping board with icing. She’s good, but not quite good enough to make cakes hover in the very air. [...]