Fay Young

Month: December 2010

  • Scott free?

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    I see the Guardian is asking for memories connected with the Scott Monument. This probably isn’t what they are looking for but I can’t resist publishing a provocative piece which first appeared in The City Talks. Colin Cumberland  makes a pretty good case for getting rid of the monument which he describes as a “Gothic…

  • King Wenceslas on a Kubota

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    Snow has always been an adventure at Pond Cottage but this year it feels like an attack. Three weeks ago we only just managed to get away by digging a narrow track up the lane with the tractor.  I followed Ray, King Wenceslas on a Kubota, as close as I dared, hanging on to the…

  • A is for alcohol

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    Politicians can’t do drugs and drink. Pandering to the Daily Mail and the drinks industry means they are irrational about one and evasive about the other.   While government policy slips and slides around the price (too low) and social cost (too high) of booze, I am enjoying the memory that I once managed to sneak…

  • Many a slip…thank goodness

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    Thank you, thank you Jim Naughtie.  Yesterday was a pretty grim day news wise apart from that wonderful slip of the tongue on Today.  And, oh, it was an accident waiting to happen,  some people have names that invite mischief. Reminds me when I was a trainee reporter, on my newspaper in East Anglia we…

  • Christmas rapping recycled

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    Sno Biz from Tommy Perman on Vimeo. Here’s something to cheer me up and maybe you too. I started the morning fed up with the snow, tired of people oohing and aaahing about how pretty it looks on Twitter, and wondering how much longer it can go on. Then I discover Tommy has recycled some…