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July 2025. 

Clouds on the horizon. 

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Today it was blowy.

Some unreliable background history here: https://www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/half-sunk-without-trace

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We wish all our readers a very happy Bloomsday. 

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Two souls with but a single thought. 

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We're pleased to report that – despite some minor ponding by one of the gates – the new swails proved equal to the task after the first thunderplump of summer this lunchtime.

Thanks go to the Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust and Sustrans.

For background to this story, see Issue 348.

and the light fandango.

No. 45 in an occasional photo-series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.

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Does anyone understand it? 

Can any reader explain this? 

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New proposals ring alarm bells

 

Chief Executive Jo Buckley (pictured) gave updates on the Dunard Centre’s progress at May’s New Town & Broughton Community Council meeting.

As you read this, copies of the June Spurtle are already thundering towards Broughton like cats urged on by professional couriers with no sense of urgency.