There are few days at this time of year that would not be improved by interposing a community newspaper between you and them.
Fortunately, a brand new February-resistant issue of the Spurtle will be leaving the printers this afternoon and making its way onto Broughton shelves and counters first thing in the morning.
We recommend it for setting light to and warming your hands over, beating off reindeer with, and (unignited) lining your drawers. It’s also useful for finding out all the news you need to know about Broughton and the interesting bits just beyond.
This month’s publication includes choice nuggets on Edinburgh’s public spaces and how to preserve them, the uncertain future of Powderhall and associated reasons to be cheerful. We have a comb-over gone global, delays, rethinks, slow-downs and cock-ups in local streets, plus coffee, bridal tidings, and a mad king coming this way soon with plenty of bonnes choses à manger.
On pages 3 and 4, look out for the politics of Edinburgh’s built heritage, the BAFTA hopes of a Stockbridge filmmaker, and – in a first for the Spurtle and probably the last of its kind – a prominent piece on Great Tits. If Appalachian clogging is your thang, or baseball, or having to walk further to reach your local bank, you’ll like the Briefly column’s majestic sweep through world current affairs so long as they’re being conducted within half a mile of the barony.
Available in all the usual spots, copies of the Spurtle may also be snatched from our spandex-clad delivery crews as they pound the streets, or downloaded in full colour from the website here at midnight tonight.
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