One Spurtle does not a summer make, but our printed June issue makes a good start with swooping scoops on art, zooming fly-pasts on licensing and flags, high-pitched screeching about the bargain buy of the season, and a free sunshine give-away for every reader.
We examine the downsides of free Wi-Fi, delayed reappearances in public places, and a proposal to expand the bare and uninteresting flank of an old friend. We delve into the anatomical impossibilities of planners and assessors, bring news of supermarket comings and restaurant goings, and lift the lid on local crime.
And that's not all …
Then, just when you think you can relax, we show you how to break into parts of a common stair, put a face to a mystery entity in the Caribbean, go Swedish on Broughton Street, and spot a rare tree, common bird and a not-very-admirable panjandrum perched high in the air over Edinburgh’s East End.
Issue 252 will be out across Broughton and beyond from tomorrow. You can find it in pubs, clubs, cafés, libraries and bicycle shops, hair salons, purveyors of cakes, moulders of marshmallows, barbers, galleries, and all sorts of other premises for which words are either inadequate, unprintable or not yet invented.
Alternatively, download your copy as a colourful pdf from our Home page here.