The December/January Spurtle is out from today, jingling like Santa’s sleigh and stuffed to the gunwales with newsworthy parcels.
A lot of them are to do with Planning – this year’s must-have Christmas gift whether you want it or not.
We have a beard and a bow on page 1, plus a hat, a bear and peculiar plug on page 2, not to mention film excitements, violence, seasonal stuff, Cockburny visions and radical redecoration not to everybody’s taste.
Page 3 looks at a downward spiral with more serious effects than getting stuck in a chimney, follows with dippers, and continues by examining upwardly mobile beaver-related developments in parts of the barony most people don't know.
Page 4 concludes like a wise man falling off the back of a camel. Undignified but worth waiting for.
Deep, crisp and even, issues will be out across all the usual Broughton haunts soon. For those with no patience or an irresistible desire for colour, there is the usual mincepie of a pdf downloadable from our Home page here. Enjoy!