Fay Young

Month: November 2006

  • Global gossip

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    Today my blog is one year old. I am gradually getting to grips with the site (thank you again to Tommy and to Rob) so now I want to invite my family and friends – and anyone who may have dropped in from cyberspace (well, you never know) – to help it grow. The idea…

  • Beijing’s Early Birds

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    “If you don’t come out in the morning to wake up, how will you be alive? What kind of life is that?” Caroline Cooper’s postcard from Beijing Overgrown with towering skyscrapers and wide-lane boulevards, Beijing’s quiet street life and old hutong homes are under threat. Preparations for the 2008 Olympics are at the forefront of…

  • Dubrovnik street theatre

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    “Sex and drugs and sausage rolls,” there’s a guy behind me in the queue for the concert in St Salvation  with a mission to entertain. “You don’t get lager louts in this town, you get Saga louts.”  His wife is not amused: “Oh Sid, give over.” With or without Saga louts, at night you can…

  • Oink oink

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    So here I am sitting in the City Chambers cafeteria enjoying a bowl of minestrone with two Tigers and a Monkey. It’s been an odd week.