Blackbird

Glamrock meets Robinson Crusoe: no contest.

This run down, somewhat seedy establishment is a memorial to Mick Ronson. Who? He was the guy who played guitar with David Bowie in the glittery glamrock end of '70s. There used to be a kind of awning over a small stage but that appears to gone the way of all council cutbacks. Now it's just a cafe in Queen's Gardens with a tacky sign. 

In contrast to the ephemeral, pop music world, you may just make out a plaque on the wall. This is a celebration of Robinson Crusoe's departure from Hull in 1651. Not from that spot, you understand, since that wasn't a dock then, and nor yet for real since he was only  a figure in a book. The plaque states "he spent 28 years, 2 months and 19 days on a desert island an example of resolution, fortitude and self-reliance"

It goes onto to quote "Had I the sense to return to Hull, I had been happy"; well quite, but there'd been no story then, would there?

Wallflowers

The fine weather has brought out the shy wallflowers to bloom in the sunshine.

No return

Cottingham cemetery tells it like it is.

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Underneath the spreading chestnut tree

The Westwood, Beverley 

Pirate Bay

You could let yourself go and abandon all sense of what is called "common sense" and take a wee trip round the bay with these Depp lookalikes

Home from the sea