No.339, June 2025

No. 339 - June 2025
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The Editor's Bit

Last month’s Cover Competition was easy; it was the Koepelkerk on the Singel. The day after I’d finished delivering the last Stun, I checked my email and found two correct entries, so Steve Currie and Wolfling/Heidi both get an Honourable Mention, again. Can anybody answer before them?

Another easy Cover Competition this month, all I want to know is: Where is it? If you know, tell me! Contact details are on page two, or you can tell me in person if you meet me in a bar, but if that’s the case, make sure I write it down because I can be a bit forgetful. The first person with the correct answer will get an Honourable Mention in this column next month.

If you can’t pick up a copy of the Stun on the first day it gets delivered to bars, I try to make it available online the same night and then announce it in the Amsterdam Stun group on Facebook, so join up if you want an advantage in our Cover Competition.

One of the bars I always try to visit on my first delivery day is the Cave, where Lotte was more interested in having a photo with me than what was on the cover of the Stun. The last one of us together was over five years ago.

The football season is over, which means we have a winner in our Premier Predictions League. Find out who it is, how everybody else got on, and Frank’s wrap-up in Being Frank on Football on pages 20 & 21.

We had a real prize of €60 in vouchers for food/drink from Coco’s Outback for our Premier Predictions League; when I picked them up, I had the bonus of seeing Megan, so we had to have a photo together.

I got a call from the Greasy Spoon asking if we could mention them in the Stun. With no trams going along Rozengracht until 2027, it’s hard for me to get to Kinkerstraat, so I got our proof-reader Josie to pay them a visit. You can read her report on page 16.

Colin asked if we could mention an upcoming production of Oliver! that his daughter has designed the poster for. I said yes, if he wrote it, and he did; it’s on page 17.

It’s nine years this month since I lost Elly to cancer, so when I needed two more photos for Page Three, it must have been fate that I met two survivors of cancer who both knew Elly.

Loads more photos from around the bars this month, so we had to go up to 24 pages to fit them in alongside all of our usual stuff. Enjoy your bumper June edition of the Stun.