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Susana

I've just come across this article on a new novel written by a Syrian female poet, Salwa al Neimi. :) . The title is 'Evidence of honey'. I understand it is about to be published in English and of course it is banned in most muslim countries but not all! and in fact the Tunisian newspaper Les Temps ...

Susana

Actually the party has been cancelled due to the council double booking the space.

Susana

Those of you interested in zines may like having a look at the one that SOOT together with Cuboid (a group that takes a foldable 'room' around town) made. I think that it is quite a work of art!! I left a black and white copy at the library but you can download the glorious colour original from the ...

Susana

I found this: " Creative & Cultural Skills is one of a network of 25 sector skills councils, known collectively as the Skills for Business Network, to oversee the strategic development of the workforce in our industries and deliver realistic solutions to skills needs" (from: http://feedfury.com/cont...

Susana

Anyone knows of a badge maker somewhere?

Susana

You should ask Magda, the girl that wants to set up her hairdressing corner in the shop. She has a boat that she is restoring.

Susana

I received this warning, which I attach for the benefit of those that can read Spanish. Summary: - Wash the top of any can/tin that you are about to use, including of course drinking directly from a can. - Reason: during storage any rodent may have peed on them, as they often do. - Among other infec...

Susana

You may be interested in attending tomorrow's EAR (Edinburgh at Risk) day: """""" A reminder of tomorrows event as part of The Canongate Project Saturday 31st May 10-4pm Edinburgh At Risk Day “Edinburgh is at greater risk than it has been since the 1960`s” Conservation Architect James Simpson OBE (I...

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This is for the Canongate Project. The project has a shop in St Mary's St and it would help to project something on the walls to attract people in. It would be needed till the end of June.

Susana

Hi people. Alde, the Argentinian guy who has been around the Forest for a few weeks has produced a letter that he would like to be passed around. In it he is asking for help to gather the money for a ticket back to his country, either through cash-in-hand jobs or with donations. It would be great if...

Susana

I was told at the Cameo that they don't give tickets, just turn up tomorrow with the paper cutting.

Susana

With The Guardian today there is an offer to get two free tickets for the preview. You will find the offer in the Guide section.

Susana

I was wondering whether such thing could take place here. And how or who could organise it. It is not my idea. My brother, who is director of culture in a city in Spain, has launched it and is happening this week. He himself is inspired by the international festival of poetry in Medellin, Colombia, ...

Susana

I suppose this is a new thing, right? I was thinking, how about having tutorials on screen printing? It could attract many potential users... Or perhaps you already know that there are many people out there who will definitely use it. (in any case I, for one, would love to learn this technique and p...

Susana

I have a spare ticket for the rehearsal of the Netherlands dans theatre today at 3. I will leave it this morning with the KM for anyone to use.

Susana

Thanks Suizan (in Spanish) for scaling down. Is it easy to do? Could you tell me how, for next time? Thank you. Yes, certainly, the holes would have to be reinforced. This Argentinian guy, Aldebaran, told me we could do it with these metal rings, that are specific for that (if we want to do somethin...

Susana

Now, what do you think about the curtains? Are they playing the function they were meant to? In my view, every time I go into the Forest the curtains are pulled to the sides, so just contributing to make a frame but not a proper separation... We could just fix them somehow to the bar (superglue?) or...

Susana

Gracias, pueblo, gracias.

Susana

I received this information from SOOT. You may be interested: World Heritage Day 2008 Public Space: Public Value – Scottish Storytelling Centre, Friday 18 April 2008, 2.00pm – 5.00pm I would very much like to invite you to our seminar in celebration of World Heritage Day. This special day, commemora...

Susana

I just wanted to share with you that today is 20 years since I came to UK. My life started then. Thank you UK!

And by a happy coincidence it is also my birthday. 47

Susana

I agree. A fab table

Susana

YOU ARE WORTH YOUR WEIGHT IN GOLD

And, as we also say in Spain: God bless you with a good wife and many children!!

I can already see you taking them on your basking/touring: 'Los Danielitos'!!!

Susana

You know that there is a real danger of Edinburgh losing its World Heritage title? Two cities in Europe have already lost it, Cologne and another one (I don't remember which one). And it appears that UNESCO have been making waves to remove it also from Edinburgh. There are a few groups in the city c...

Susana

For the love of all the gods of the Olympus....!! What else? I would strongly recommend you get in touch with the group trying to stop the Caltongate development, SOOT (Save Our Old Town) They've been campaigning for quite a while and have acquired expertise on this. One of their core members is a t...

Susana

Oolala! Well, the thing is we've done it. Sorry if we rushed too much. I think we felt desperate at the situation and just wanted to see something done. In any case you can change things, by all means. And if you happen not to like the paint on the plant pots or the curtains, for whatever reason, pl...

Susana

So, Nix and me decided to meet on Friday at 1 to do the work needed in the front room. Do join us if you like.

Susana

Indeed Martin, that was my vision too. The compromise over the germinating plants sounds good to me too. And would you let me buy pots and paint them in a colour voted by everybody (everybody that wants to vote..)? I feel the urge to say again, at the risk of being a bore, that if I didn't know the ...

Susana

Nix, in my opinion this is quite a matter of urgency, so if you think that you can make it in the next week great, otherwise we may lose the momentum and forget again for a few months... We could for this occassion use Ikea but at the same time make sure that we fiind a more local resource for the c...

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I totally agree. Yesterday I was in Ikea and saw these panel curtains that are used to create space divisions and I thought that they would be just ideal. They are transparent and come in three colours: pink, green and white and the dimensions are 300 x 60cm. They cost £1.39 each and with 4 of them ...

Susana

Certainly. Making it into an event is a sure way to get attention and voters! Good luck.

Susana

Another little idea: an alternative to the screen could be a beads curtain. They have the advantage of rearranging themselves. Or someone could paint a mural on a canvas and then we would cut it in narrow strips to turn it into a bead curtain. Regarding the window, is it not possible to have both th...

Susana

That would be ideal, actually! And what is that new shop for?

Susana

I was thinking, would a sort of chinese screen help? or some other type of division like curtains or so? at least the eyesore in the front room would disappear. Also if we brought the free shop to where the library is we would like some division for the same purpose and we could put the books on tho...

Susana

Ah Chris, that hurts! The library is a piece of my heart, how can you play with it so flippantly? :wink: I really don't know where the free shop could go... I do love the idea of having the library in the front room but I fear that the books would disappear more quickly. I have seen some of my 'refe...

Susana

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7260484.stm £600 would go nicely towards paying someone to clean the toilets... If this came into place we would be entitled immediately to the remuneration as we are already offering this service to the community (Danny can provide fresh evidence...). On a more sombre ...

Susana

:lol: Slow but very good progress: the publishers of Persepolis are going to give us a free copy when their new edition comes out! Yippie!! They mention perhaps to put a sticker informing people that they can buy a copy at Word Power. I say of course! Elaine, from WP, still has to ask the publishers...

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I have books on the library that I am lending to the Forest. I would like to put a label in them for people to know and hopefully deter wicked minds from taking them away... It wold be something like this: " This book is on loan from a friend of The Forest. Should any of this type of books disappear...

Susana

OK, then. You convinced me. I'll wait and see if Elaine, at WP, can get them a tad cheaper for us.

Susana

Dear comrades in decision making, I was waiting for Elaine of WP to ask the publishers for a reduction, sometime this week, but there is something I am reconsidering: I realised that there were basically three positive answers to my proposal and that two of those were the ones who encouraged me to p...

Susana

I agree with Dan, those three are essential but if we have to choose I would buy Persepolis and Maus. I had hang from the library shelf a booklet with a list of some of the best graphic novels and in it I indicate which ones are held at the Edinburgh libraries. So, as long as there are a couple of t...

Susana

On Saturday I found out that the whole front row of my items had disappeared. Very sad. There were 7 items and a receipts book and it looks very much that someone helped themselves to them (how pathetic, pleeeease). I thought it is quite possible that that lock can be open easily with a wire or so.....

Susana

:roll: here I go again: would you contemplate the idea of buying some non-fictional graphic novels to have in the library? (I mean the type of Maus, Persepolis, Palestine, Cancer Vixen etc, etc, etc) Last summer I had applied for a 'grant' for this purpose but no success then. But I still think that...

Susana

Regarding who should be allowed to do sales: I had put my stuff in the glass cabinet in the second week of December. Two weeks later I checked and noticed that 3 of my items seemed to have being sold. To my knowledge there was no record of it. I also noticed that another two of my things had been da...

Susana

Ha! Very good point indeed.

This is the address:

http://www.etsy.com/

Good luck. I would be very interested to know what your opinion is, specially if you intend to use it.

Susana

I just discovered this site, which apparently is working very well already in other countries (mainly the States) and is thought to be one that will see a great expansion in 2008. I had a look at the site and it looks very nice to me, very neat, clear and 'crafty'. Also the browsing facilities are v...

Susana

It seems that a few of the ipod socks have been sold but there is no entry for it in the 'shop' section. Has someone forgot to write it down?

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Susana

I went ahead and brought my lamp. If that is not ok please tell me.

Susana

And how about dividing the toilets between female and male???? In the male one we would put an squatting style toilet, where all males, tall and short could splash at their heart's content, and by that allowing the child inside this joy, several times in a day (wouldn't that be therapeutic against t...

Susana

Please could someone pass on to me Steve's mobile no. or eamil address. I will be sending the greeting card for Jack's family and I imagine that he may be the only one that would have their details.

If you prefer, send them to my email:
susana_lorenzo@yahoo.com

Thank you so much

Susana

I need to raise this issue for the benefit of the glorious Forest. You may blush. I may blush. But I need to get on with this: As you may have appreciated for some time now (forever?) the toilets at the Forest lack a bit in cleanliness and I have to put forward this question: "Why"? or, as you Briti...

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erotic Arab novel

Save Our Old Town zine

Badge maker?

Wash your cans.

Any idea where to borrow an overhead projector from?

Plea to help Alde, the Argentinian guy

Free preview screening of Persepolis at the Cameo tom. 11am

Poetry through megaphone in the streets? Is it possible?

Dance lovers

20 in UK

Danny, thanks for cleaning the windows...!

Is this the answer to our toilet prayers?

Label for books on loan

Some not very nice news

Any chance for some non-fictional graphic novels??

web site for selling crafts

Anyone sold ipod socks from the glass cabinet?

Steve's contact details

Toilets hygiene, or the mistery of male miction