Monday 18 June 2012

Expect Delays

For two hours today and an hour tomorrow parts of the city will grind to a halt as a series of pyjama clad buffoons jog slowly around waving an oversized cigarette lighter. Yes the idiotic farce that is the Olympic torch relay is in town to the delight of the hoopleheads and feeble minded. I wonder how many of those lining the streets realise that this is a direct throwback to the torchlit parades of the 1936 Nazi Olympics designed for the glorification of Hitler's Third Reich. Swifter, Higher, Stronger ... phooey. 

Sunday 17 June 2012

Small copper

When you can't think of anything to say it's probably best to say nothing, so ....

Saturday 16 June 2012

Uneven

The grammar on some signs in mediaeval church yards is uneven too! This Holy Trinity's church yard looking the worse for wear what with all those burials and a large tree buckling the surface.

Friday 15 June 2012

Costa

I've always understood the name of this place to be a reference to it's prices. I may be wrong since I've never been in and don't drink coffee.

Thursday 14 June 2012

Chimney

This is East Park and in the distance stands the 450 ft Reckitt's chimney. This is now defunct since the plant it served has closed. Can't think why but I've just remembered that Reckitt's bought out the Durex company a while back ...

Wednesday 13 June 2012

The other side of 13


Here's a view of the other side of the converted warehouse 13 that I showed you here. The black object in the foreground must remain one of life's mysteries, that is to say, I don't know what it is. 

Tuesday 12 June 2012

P & O x 2


Did you know that over a million passengers use the port of Hull every year? No, nor did I. P & O have ferries to Zeebrugge and Rotterdam. The ferry terminal is way over in east Hull so everyone has to go through the city to get where they want to be.
Here's two totally different shots of roughly the same scene.