As you read this, advance copies of the November Spurtle are already appearing across Broughton like confiscated bangers on the floor of an Edinburgh custody suite.
Page 1 begins with two blows, various tickets and a call for improved enforcement of hooks.
There’s a digger, a coo and a questionable view on Page 2, plus grass-roots community action and reports of a tap, a crash and persistent floater.
An indistinct blur graces Page 3, poorly illustrating a clear call for more trees. We have piercing insights into expanded heritage, yet more crashes, and a 25-mile bicycle race which very few seem to have bothered watching. Not to mention light, poetry of a sort, disruption, straws, boards and things that go cluck in the night.
We conclude on Page 4 with floods and forebodings, more haze, a removal and rumours (ill-founded) of bird theft.
This and much more condensed news covers the area from Pilrig to Howe Street and Queen St to Canonmills. It is produced in astonishing detail and in tiny print designed to boost sales of those magnifying glasses in which Spurtle has invested its pension fund.
You’ll find copies in pubs, cafés, shops, libraries and plastic railing-dispensers across the barony and beyond.
Alternatively, download a free colour pdf from our website here after midnight tonight.
