Hull and Hereabouts

Pour faire la paix avec nos amis européens, la ville de la culture a décidé de ne parler que le français. Je sais que c 'est très ...

Details, details ... This little putto romping around with a sickle is according everything I can find an allegory of plenty or of Summe...

You all remember the kiddies' water play area I showed, ooh ages ago. The one that shuts in Autumn? Yeah that's the one. Did I ...

Readers with fantastic memories may recall my pathetic attempts to photograph the Goosanders that visit East Park most Winters. Usually...

Whoever does the planting at  East Park's Star Gardens is clearly a dahlia fan as every year the display seems to get better.  ...

I've posted about East Park before so I've absolutely no excuse for doing it again ... Weekend reflections are here

There are those who think that Grey Lag Geese get their name from their habit of being the last to migrate in Winter, in other words the...

Common Pochard ♂ I know you will have been worrying about this all day long and so, by way of clarification, Pochards in this country ...

Here's a few swan photos for no reason, who needs a reason?

As I often do at this time of year I visited East Park to see if the goosanders had arrived but I didn't see any. However I have hea...

When that I was and a little tiny boy,     With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A foolish thing was but a toy,     For the rain it...

In 1923 the council decided to build a splash boat and spent £1400 on materials and £474 2s 5d on building the tower so that folk can en...

Came across three trees in East Park suffering from red spot disease, the symptoms are a sudden and catastrophic loss of  all branches a...

Here's the brand new park clock in East Park. The money needed to erect it, some £20,000, was raised by one of the parks longest ser...

East Park Looking the other way from yesterday's post these are the ornamental flower beds that make such a colourful display in h...

East Park, Hull So far it's not been  much of a Winter to be honest more a prolonged slightly chilly Autumn with mild winds and bout...

Paid an end of year visit to East Park partly to check if the goosanders have arrived (they have) and partly because East Park is never...

As if the good folks of Hull haven't just had a whole week of fun fairs another mini-fair springs up on my favourite tree lined aven...

I don't have much attraction to east Hull, it's a fairly bleak and dismal place with few attractions. But it does have East Park ...

The Weekend in Black and White is here . Weekend Reflections are here .