“One of the striking things about homeless people is that they rarely meet people’s preconceptions or fit the lazy stereotypes…because homelessness can happen to anyone out of the blue. Most are just people for whom somethingwent wrong, often not of their own making.”

This editions word seems to flop off the tongue in the most delightfully erotic way. Scurryfunge (say it again if you like, it’s ok, no one’s listening) is an old English verb that describes one’s frantic and panic-driven rampage around a scruffy and littered room when a guest’s arrival is drawing imminently near, hastily pawing uncultured or possibly obscene items and literature beneath the sofas, lunging around obstacles and smashing ornaments in the desperation to clean the room and show off your freshly scoured soul to ‘those that will arrive’.

Here at the Flying Post we are committed to bringing you comprehensive and edifying reviews of the sights, sounds, facilities and… fry-ups, of this fair city. Often irreverent, but wholly devoted to the objective reporting of subjective opinion, our reviews pull no punches. Cast your eyes, dear reader, over our Fry-Up Review.

EFP writer Michael Goffman is known for being loquacious, but armed with laxatives and few too many espressos, the toilet exploring extraordinaire assesses Exeter’s best known facilities.

As part of Chaos Issue a short story by Neil Snowdon -