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[ Forecast for today: Poet Fiona Macleod wrote, "My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill." Poet Julia Pardoe wrote, "The heart is a free and fetterless thing -- a wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing?" Pluto asks, "Which are you more like?" as he takes lady Venus into the depths of the heart. Is your heart fulfilled or hungry?... ]
; Forecast for today: Poet Fiona Macleod wrote, "My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill." Poet Julia Pardoe wrote, "The heart is a free and fetterless...
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Delays for plans to axe schools in PPP upgrade The only remaining junior secondaries in Scotland have had a temporary reprieve, writes Fiona MacLeod, after parents forced councillors into a costly U- turn
; ...U-turn was made, the council's education chairman, Murdo MacLeod, described it as "irresponsible". Morag Munro, the chairwoman...was held to privately discuss the issue in more detail. MacLeod stresses the original decision to close four of the schools...and adds: "They have just deferred it pending a report." ...
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Design & Shopping: A beautiful imperfection A fascination with ancient art and a desire to avoid prettiness made the work of Ewen Henderson unique. Fiona MacLeod mourns the loss of a great talent
; EWEN HENDERSON hated the way artists are categorised. He also hated critics because he mistrusted words - so in writing this, I tread with care. Henderson was a radical, maverick figure, who was constantly pushing at the boundaries in his art. He was most widely known as a ceramicist (or a sculptor
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Entertaining: Ghee whizz When chef Kulwant Bola comes to lunch, the guests soon find themselves transported to India. Fiona MacLeod enjoys a magical journey
; It is only 10am but the lunch guests are gathering at Charmaine Faulkner's house in south-east London. Today, they will cook their own food under the guidance of Indian cook Kulwant Bola. It's a new idea developed in the last few years by Kulwant and she is now much in demand for birthday parties
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LIVING REVIEW ENTERTAINING: Naughty, but Norse A traditional Norwegian meal might involve braised seabird and very little alcohol. But such puritan fare is history for Oslo's chattering classes, as Fiona MacLeod discovers at an independence day party
; One hundred years ago Norway gained its independence from Sweden. I'm in Oslo for the launch of the celebrations and have been invited to dinner by Eirik Bergesen, an adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and his wife Bente Kalnes, who is a journalist on a Norwegian newspaper. As I crunch
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Design & Shopping: Project Peckham Fiona MacLeod uncovers a pioneering development
; IN 1934 in Peckham, south London, building work began on a startlingly modern building to be known as the Pioneer Health Centre. It was designed by the engineer Owen Williams, also responsible for building Wembley Stadium in 1923, and was custom-built to meet the needs of a scientific investigation
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Food: Loch, stock and barrel It's Burns Night on Tuesday and as Scotland prepares to address the haggis, we celebrate with a Celtic Food Special. Here, Fiona MacLeod visits one of the best, and most remote, restaurants in the country
; Having driven 20 miles down a single track road on the Morvern peninsula in north-west Argyll, I'm having a pre-prandial stroll in the twilight. Tonight, my dinner is at the Whitehouse restaurant in Lochaline, the small ferry port village for the Isle of Mull. Cattle wander idly over the track,
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The quiet revolutionary takes his bow As the Edinburgh Academy prepares to take girls at senior school, retiring rector John Light talks to Fiona MacLeod
; IT HAS been a long time since the demise of the all-female typing pool and the all-male boardroom. Few bastions of solely male preserve remain outside the worlds of golf and Eton. One of the most recent institutions to open its doors to both sexes is the Edinburgh Academy which began taking girls
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Design & Shopping: Think of a letter, think of the man David Kindersley's innovative words are all around us, says Fiona MacLeod
; WE HAVE all seen the work of David Kindersley, though we probably don't realise it. Take a look at the street names anywhere in the country and you will find that many of them are in a Kindersley script, adopted by the Ministry of Transport in the Fifties and still in use. Kindersley was one of the
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Bowling A Maiden Over Once the preserve of public-school boys, the thwack of leather on willow has found some new participants as more and more of Scotland's young women take up cricket with enthusiasm, discovers Fiona MacLeod
; TO OUTSIDERS it is that most genteel of sports, symbolic of summers, redolent of gentle distant applause and the crack of leather on willow. To insiders it means broken bones, twisted shoulders, chipped teeth from thundering balls and a slew of verbal insults intended to unnerve the most bullish of
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