Hull and Hereabouts

I knew that the light show in town was going to be a dull affair, I'd read what folk had said about it on social media. Still nothin...

In town yesterday and came across this odd thing in Prince's Dock; a compass cum lighthouse. It's to do with some light show (a ...

Here we are on Hessle Road the noted culinary centre of the City of Culture. To tempt your palette with some fine American fare there ar...

At some point last summer someone found that cheap reading glasses are cheap for a reason ... and this being the City of Culture instead...

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.                                                                 Freddy Nietzsche ...

This was one of the many very irritating slogans of last year's Kulturfest. You may have read or seen of further recent instalments ...

Rolled up in town late on Friday afternoon about 4pm but could tell something was up as the bus diverted and left us to get off on a sid...

The final show, as it were, of the Year of Culture was a series of installations scattered about the town each consisting of several rob...

... since I posted anything. The new year sees Hull and all things Hully still much the same. Be assured you haven't missed anythin...

The Prospect Centre is having some work done on the lift and to protect Joe Public boards have been erected and to hide or brighten up t...

You know how I like the Council and greatly admire the wisdom of  its ways. Well this week I learnt that in order to minimise disruption...

Ah the wonderful game inspires all sorts to demonstrate their ball skills (or lack of them) in the oddest places. Somehow I don't th...

So now there are eight reflection pools (at great expense)  in the space outside Holy Trinity Church now known as Hull Minster (which ha...

So the promised fountains are in business. And instantly turned into some kind of amusement feature for screaming children to put on the...

Tell me the old, old story,   Of unseen things above, Of Jeremy and His glory,   Of Labour and Its love Tell me the story simply,   A...

Does a creeping, cold sensation grab you by the sensitive parts as you gradually realise that you are being seized with the gruesome rea...

The promised fountains in Queen Victoria Square have yet to materialise. We are told by a Councillor that "The technology used to o...

I know, I know I promised never, ever to photograph them but there was no way I could stop Margot clicking away at these truly awful pla...

I took this picture a few weeks ago and would have posted it but for a lack of anything to say. This is the Hull Venue rising out of the...

Here's the newly paved over junction of Jameson Street and King Edward Street taken a few weeks ago when the the orange lurgy was st...