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Stobswell feature: Locals have undying loyalty to Dundee's 'village green'

Stobswell feature: Locals have undying loyalty to Dundee's 'village green'
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Stobswell profile: Locals have undying loyalty to Dundee's 'village green'


Jim Sturrock.
Jim Sturrock, 72, took over in the late 1970s and has passed the business to his daughter Wendy, who also opened the neighbouring Room 39 Boutique in 2015. Jim’s granddaughter Connie runs the adjacent hair salon at Room 39.
“It’s a great area to live in and it’s the people who make it,” says Jim, a Stobswell resident for 32 years.
“We always make everybody welcome; whether they come from the south or north they integrate into Stobswell.
“I know a lot of people in Stobswell and they know me. We look after each other.”
Living the dream at Baxter Park Terrace ....

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Why I Don't Like Fiction


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[Note: This old “Spengler” essay disappeared from the old Asia Times servers. For no other reason than annoyance over a New Yorker feature on Virginia Wolff, I repost it here].
One Sunday morning years ago I was walking across Mexico City’s
zócalo, the grand square abutting the cathedral and the presidential palace. Street vendors swarm there until the cops roust them. A middle-aged man in a grey windbreaker had opened a box of blue-covered paperback edition of the Mexican Constitution, the kind that’s given free to schools and trade unions. “Buy the Mexican Constitution!” he cried. “Sorry,” I told him. “I don’t like fiction.” ....

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