Stephanie Butland

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New Year Message

I added a new postcard to the board above my desk.

(Which, I now realise, is a variation on the theme of the much older note above it to the left.)
I’m not, generally, much of a one for New Year as a time for New Beginnings and all that – after all, every day is the [...]

New Year’s Eve, again

… and as you read this post, Alan and I will be on our way home. We might get back in time for me to plant bulbs in the light; if not, I’ll do it in the darkness. (It’s something I did on New Year’s Eve last year, and I got such pleasure from it [...]

A good start

New Year’s Day is a special day in our family, because it marks the anniversary of my niece Emily’s birth. She was 9 yesterday.
Joy made her an ice rink birthday cake – she’d had an ice rink party -

and she loved it.

She also loved her penny whistle, and played ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ on it [...]