Hull and Hereabouts

I came across a sticker just like this a few years ago. Even then  the case of Jeremy Bamber was a long running and worrying affair but ...

 "Tid, Mid, Misere; Carlin, Palm, Pace-Egg Day" I sometimes think folk invent things behind my back, while I'm not look...

Driffield, let's be honest, is not a big place. A visitor would be stretched to say it had more than one street, named rather sweetly...

Mortimer's warehouses close by the canal and Riverhead in Driffield are no more; well the buildings are still there but the busines...

Moorhens ( Gallinula chloropus) are very common birds on waterways in these parts. This one is a juvenile as it lacks the bright red be...

It is said that you cannot step into the same river twice but that doesn't stop you trying to photograph it. So, pace Heraclitus, he...

Now the griffin, as you know, mated for life and when its partner died it would continue its life alone. The medieval church took this w...

Driffield once had a proper post office in a fine old building, now it's gone ... actually been gone for ten years or so but I only...

When I posted about this little spot before I somehow forgot to show the pond, well here it is. Weekend reflections should be here .

If this looks a tad familiar that's because I've posted the other side of it  here in glorious technicolour.. The weekend in b...

    I'm feeling even lazier than normal so the next few days may be filled with trees going orangey-yellow like it has never happ...

I had a few minutes to sit and ponder on the 169 year old Driffield station and what's left of its glory. Above is the old stationma...

Oh dear. This poor swan has angel wing, a deformity of the last joint of the wing that causes feathers to stick out from the body instea...

Nothing much changes or so it seems at this place. It was just like this when I first came here nearly half a century ago. Maybe the war...

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridic...

Looking through the posts on this blog I find I have posted this house three times already. [ 1 2 3 ] Well here's the fourth. And...

I took this sometime ago but today seems the most appropriate day to post it. The Lockington rail crash on this day in 1986 left eight r...

As I'm sitting here it's been raining more or less continuously for a day with another day's worth waiting to come in off th...

As the snows and frosts of Winter fade to a distant memory it becomes time to dust down the old willow bat, rub in the linseed oil, white...

Driffield's Millennium Clock So we lurch bleary eyed into Bloody Stupid Time so that we can enjoy 'extra' daylight in the e...