As you read this, advance copies of the July Spurtle are already scattering across the barony like political door-steppers fleeing an XL Bully who doesn’t intend to vote.
Page 1 begins with good news on bad cyclists, French pots, a growing shrub and the most extraordinary screw we’ve seen in a long time.
Barely pausing for breath, we continue on Page 2 with short-term exemptions, the right building in the wrong place, some moving parts and a vehicular oddity. Also encumbrances, batlessness and our confident prediction on the Edinburgh North & Leith result in the General Election.
Rainfall (too much), music (some welcome additions) and tour guides (too few sober ones) feature on Page 3, as do people in glass houses, people behind the Golden Turd, people on top of the St James Qtr, people in green spaces, people in search of a loo and something to eat, and renewed hope (not much) for people wanting somewhere affordable to live.
We wrap up on Page 4 with a trip to the top, failing foliage, some pizzas which flopped and a non-Christmas-related call to hoe, hoe, hoe.
In short, if it hoots, whistles, whimpers or honks between Pilrig and Canonmills, Howe Street and the sunlit uplands of Picardy Place, you’ll find it squashed into small type on the pages of Issue 341.
Print copies are available in shops, bars, restaurants and services across Broughton and beyond, public and private libraries, railing dispensers and the odd telephone box for those who like their news hyperlocally scented.
Alternatively, you can download colourful and odourless copies from our website HERE after midnight tonight.
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