Fay Young

Month: January 2010

  • Is beatblogging the future? If so what does it mean?

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    Stop press: The Guardian has just announced their Edinburgh beatblogger On a mild and misty morning your friendly neighbourhood beatblogger slips a mobile phone in her pocket and sets off hoping to catch sight of the local community policeman breaking into an old railway tunnel.

  • The yew’s revenge

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    [thanks to Dougal for the snow track picture] You don’t have to be able to read the tracks. When we get to Pond Cottage, the signs of deer and rabbit are all round the garden.  Deep snow protected the plants from frost but gave the animals a leg up above the tree guards.  Apples, hollies,…

  • Too cold for (igloo) snow

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    The pond taken by Dougal standing where he really shouldn’t ought to. The night we arrive we have to abandon the car by the gate and carry the cats through snow so deep it comes right over our wellies. It’s so cold the cottage feels like a scene from Dr Zhivago.