Fay Young

Month: September 2009

  • Fight, flight or tweet

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    Not Monet’s garden, these lilies are at Taynish on the west coast of Scotland. What’s happened to living in the here and now?  When we were in Paris last week I was amazed to discover art gallery attendants now allow people to take mobile phone pictures of paintings.  The rooms are full of happy snappers…

  • The tenement tree

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    Enlightened city had let you be till Mammon’s grasp said ‘damn the tree’; So far the trees are still there: a splash of green between grey buildings in a grey street. Otherwise only cars and traffic signs add  colour to one of the posher parts of Edinburgh. Planning permission for a new building on the…