ISSUE 269 - OUT SOON!

Submitted by Editor on Thu, 30/11/2017 - 16:26

Spurtle’s Issue 269 comes out in December and will be the last until February, straddling the New Year period like a huge but elegant new road bridge with only a few piddling surface issues which it’s hardly worth mentioning despite the fact that in time they may cause the entire edifice to collapse. So we won’t. 

Page 1 is mostly about the dizzying spin that is Picardy Place, although we also find room for a desirable dragon and make confident predictions about what Leithers will be arguing about in 2018.

On page 2 we carry news of complaints, traders, a sat-upon avocado, appeals agogo, slow progress, Mendelssohn, and a political roller-coaster in City Chambers.

Next come a dog, a bird, and surprising gyratories in a New Town backwater, followed by news of absent compost, designs on a railway, privacy fears, a holy welcome extension, and something bracingly macabre to counterbalance all the sickening Twinklichkeit on offer in other publications.

On page 4 we wrap up with sad news of a lost friend and former contributor, Dalmeny Street illuminations, dog-poo, flagstones, vandalism and general bonhomie.

When you’ve finished reading it, Issue 269 rolls into a convenient ventilator pipe for your snowhole or battery-free megaphone with which to summon help. It will become available over the next few days in all the usual shops, eateries, drinkeries, libraries, lurkeries, speak-easys, haircutters and bicycle emporia.

But if you can’t wait that long, it will also appear as a full-colour pdf on our Homepage from midnight tonight.

Warning: the pdf edition is not suitable for snowholes.