As you read this, advance copies of the September Spurtle are already spreading across Broughton like pizza fragments round a bin full of rats.
Page 1 begins with a temporary fix, an entirely predictable and predicted fiasco, and a ‘feature façade’. It’s all infuriating. Thank God for the clock and the flock.
Fake flowers feature on Page 2, as do too much of a good thing, too little of a good thing, and a dog’s breakfast.
There’s a bee on Page 3, and the future of boxes, fine dining, and beavers. We also have news about sheep and unlikely chemical combinations, plus watery problems in green spaces.
If you like your pasta served with expletives, exciting news awaits you on Page 4. We have swings and roundabouts in City Chambers and Inverleith Park, plus an exclusive offer for Spurtle readers who would rather not put up or put up with their visiting friends and relations.
In short, Issue 321 is packed to excess with everything you need to know about life, times and feathered friends between Pilrig and Stockbridge, Queen St and Canonmills.
You can find printed copies in multiple shops, bars, cafés and public libraries across the barony and beyond. Or download a colourful pdf from our website HERE after midnight on 1 September.
If you have news or gossip for the Spurtle or would like to help us produce and distribute the paper for nothing more than a lovely warm glow, please get in touch at spurtle@hotmail.co.uk. We’re always open to new ideas.
