Climbing Bear

OK this is one of a pair of bears at the entrance to Albany Street just off Springbank. It's part of a series of animal 'street art' that runs the length of Springbank. And the reason for all this? Well, many years ago, before they built all the houses there was a zoological garden which was lost with the development of Hull. The memory of it lingers in the pub names on Springbank: the Eagle, the Polar Bear and the Botanic not forgetting the gloriously ramshackle Zoological now long gone to make way for the Hull Daily Mail offices, and finally the recently opened (10 or so years ago) New Zoological. 

It would be unbearable to show just one bear so here's the other.

Trees

These are on Beverley Westwood. If you peer closely you can just make out the black mill.

The Warren

These former dockside buildings are the Warren Project where 14 to 25 year olds do the sort of thing 14 to 25 year olds  do. I'm far too old to remember what that might be. There's a website as always here.

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. 

Small copper

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

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.

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.