Fay Young

Month: April 2010

  • Welcome immigrants, you make life better

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    Not many people saw it, but last night was a good night for community action.  While would-be leaders dominated the television screen,  a political drama was quietly unfolding in a Leith community centre which confounds all those fears of immigrants.

  • Cybraphon blows a fuse

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    “If you think we are rubbish,” says Ziggy, “you can always go upstairs and listen to Cybraphon.”  Actually he put it stronger than that but this is a family blog (sort of) and however he put it, Ziggy knew there was a risk people might just do that.  Found has created a formidable cyber celebrity…

  • When a house is a home

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    A new dawn, a new neighbour, a new kitchen Poor old house. I can almost hear it groaning through the adjoining walls as the banging and drilling, the sawing and sanding, the breaking down and tearing up begin all over again. Yet another new neighbour means new paint, new carpets, new bathroom suite and, of…