Fay Young

Month: July 2010

  • Sure the World Kitchen can stand the heat

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    Thanks to Helen we have a cunning plan.  A table plan, that is, for the World Kitchen in Leith event at Out of the Blue next week.  More to the point we also have a menu which makes us hungry just to think of it – and it’s a menu you won’t find in any…

  • Lies, damned lies and tram headlines

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    Blue sky thinking: what Edinburgh needs. On a grey Edinburgh summer’s day I jump off a bus painted with blue skies and fluffy white clouds and on to the tram in Princes Street.  It isn’t going anywhere of course but it’s still a great ride if only to dispel  myths and misconceptions rumbling around town.

  • Sweetly subversive in Castle Street

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    Poetry as graffiti, a brilliant combination by Banksy (picture by CodySimms) I like to think this could be a sweetly subversive movement: poetry in motion, gently working its way into the nooks and crannies of city life; sometimes soothing, sometimes stirring.   In London this summer at least some of the 3.5 million daily passengers…