Fay Young

Month: June 2012

  • Oh Danny Boyle

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    We’re heading home, driving north from Oxfordshire to Edinburgh, bypassing the villages, towns and cities of middle England, and every motorway mile mocks the green and pleasant spectacle Danny Boyle plans to conjure up for the opening of the Olympics.

  • Talk to the feet

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    Dear Diary (if I may call you that), I have been neglecting you badly over the last month or two. But I have not been idle. During May I walked 104 miles during the Great British Walking Challenge. On the hypothetical journey from John O Groats to Lands End that would have taken me roughly…