As you read this, advance copies of the July Spurtle are already wafting across the barony like grains of birch pollen spreading joy and optimism wherever they fall.
Issue 363 begins with high hopes of a new owner, the dim view of a glazed look, and the vague possibility of a sodden addition to one sun-filled corner of Bellevue Central. We bid farewell to a friend and founder member of this publication.
Statistics fill Page 2: dozens of them. So many they’ll make your head spin. We look at ‘contemporary living’ and obsolete walls, slim prospects for squeezing through railings, wrong road-signs, understaffed overload, young people and how to find them, Edinburgh holes, Edinburgh splits and Edinburgh heavens that no longer go BANG in the night.
We ask for suggestions next and ask you to keep them clean. We anticipate cheese. We swallow a sweet pill. We wave goodbye to the quirkily QWERTY. We report renewed pressure to use the corridor, and recall heroes military and sporting with local connections.
On Page 4 we celebrate artistic benches and the man who designed them, Out of the Blue into the future, magenta and black, good moods, bus stops and a Rodney Street business gone with the flow.
In short, there is no end to the news in the square mile between Pilrig and the edge of Stockbridge, between York Place and Canonmills. We cover it in minute detail, smaller print and paper issues available from shops, pubs, cafés, services, libraries, railing dispensers and an old man with owls in his beard whistling Lillibulero.
Pick up your black-and-white copy in person or download a colourful pdf after midnight tonight here.
