Hull and Hereabouts

Sometimes, don't you think,  it's nice to just sit and reminisce and get away from the stupidity of the day... Now let me see .....

Hi, how ya doing? Thought I'd drop you a line since it's been a while, well it's been a lifetime since they dipped me in that...

The cunning plan to make Hull's tenure of the title of UK City of Culture as miserable as possible seems to be working ever so wel...

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...

As if having authority from the almighty weren't enough church authority by the middle ages had sought a more temporal power to keep ...

The Church of England having long ago given up being in the god-bothering trade is now trying to pull in the paying punters with sill...

Which is it: is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders?                                                   ...

It's been a while since I posted anything piscine related to the Hull Fish Trail . To rectify that omission and as it's Friday h...

What you've never had, I suppose, you'll never miss. So future new visitors to Lowgate might wonder at older folks shaking their...

C is for Capitalism ,   The bosses ' reactionary creed ,                                                                     ...

B's for the Boss who's a Bastard, A Bourgeois who don't give a damn.                                                       ...

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...

... and look upon him now dead who when alive it were better for thee to imitate Thomas Whincop an unparalleled example of divers sorts ...

I mentioned that last Saturday that along with the Hull Folk Festival Hull was also host to the BBC Proms held at the little stage ...

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

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

Here lies the cold carcass of Holy Trinity Square scraped clean of history, of character, of any interest whatsoever. It's as if an...

Over in Trinity Square the finishing touches to this year's marathon makeover were being put in place the other day. I noticed this...

Here's a rather (too) large panorama of Trinity Square showing the work (ha!) in progress. Andrew Marvell has long gone, the church...

I've only been into town once in about two months or so, so I missed the official opening of this, the C4DI building , that is going...