Hull and Hereabouts

  In November 1605 a plot to blow up Parliament and the king was thwarted due to the incompetence of the conspirators, betrayal and plain ba...

Her most excellent Britannic Majesty's Government regularly astounds us all with its sagacity and fleetness of foot in reacting to ...

These guys rolled up at 7ish this morning; not quite what a peaceful neighbourhood wanted at that time of day, much crashings and bangin...

Events this year have meant the councils in these parts have not been doing their usual trick of spraying weed-killing glyphosate in each...

Imagine running a business where the Government recommend your customers not use your services and then compensates you for your losses....

  ...Breathe promise of merry sunshine Saturday all shiny and bright and temperatures climbing nicely to a decent 21 ° C, not too hot ...

For the past three or four days they've been at it again. Barely had one little storm faded away than they issue warning of impending...

A storm in February used to pass by unnoticed, it was the kind of thing you expect, happened every year, through out autumn and winter we...

Between the western edge of Hull and the village of Cottingham there's a no-man's land of so-called green belt, rough unwanted gr...

I go along this street, Strathcona Avenue 1 , every day to pick up the newspapers, a pint of milk and a loaf of bread. The street dates f...

Snuff Mill Lane The anticyclonic gloom of the past week has been briskly blown away by a cold front, well, I say cold it's down to ...

This guy came prepared for the Snuff Mill Lane seasonal puddles. He had a dog, some sort of Spaniel as I recall, a happy, mucky old thi...

On our way to Cottingham via Snuff Mill Lane we came across an amusing sight ... a pair of artfully arranged riding hats possibly by the ...

In this bleak midwinter rain has fallen, rain on rain ... and so Snuff Mill Lane fields are nicely awash and home to a few wary gulls ...

I could tell you this road is named after John Wymersley who in the early 16th century ran the well nigh bankrupt Haltemprice Priory ...

Some seats are marginal and some are so safe they weigh the vote instead of counting it. Such is the condition of the constituency I fi...

"No one left and no one came On the bare platform..." The good ship Wikipedia informs me that Cottingham station was ope...

On Snuff Mill Lane the other day large numbers of these pretty brown critters had sprung up alongside a blackthorn and ivy hedge. I thin...

Avid followers of my dreary tales will know of my pumpkin cultivation (if that is the word, they just romped along all by themselves) a...

This pub  in Cottingham has been closed since January and was only open for a few weeks over Xmas before that, the seasonal decorations ...