Hull and Hereabouts

I like it when I can agree whole heartedly with this wayside pulpit on the Baptist Church, Cottingham Road. Usually they are just plain old ...

  I admit I haven't been paying attention to the news, the local news, any news, or Twitter or such like for a week or so, so when I wan...

You know the story of King Canute (or Cnut if you wish, maybe even Knut ), he that sat by the sea shore and told the tide not to rise and...

Do you remember May? In particular Sunday, May 3, just this year? No, me neither but it seems I posted about the sudden, to me, appearanc...

One thing we don't get in England is tumbleweed but perhaps a ball or two wistfully drifting across this scene might be appropriate h...

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 .....

Paragon station clock seemed to be offering a couple of options, it's always nice to have a choice even if neither one was right. ...

I must say it's been an exceptionally good year for neuroses.

... and also with the passing of the years there comes a dropping off, a lack of interest, a failure to be aroused, I suppose it was in...

Remember back in the bad days, the days before the glorious Fat Controller took us all under his gross, adiposal care and smothered us w...

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...

  Sometime next week, I think maybe Friday I haven't been taking notes, folk will be under a legal obligation to wear a face muzzle w...

The Avenues area, described by some wag as the Muesli Belt of Hull, is currently plagued by feathery fiends who cause untold harm to the ...

Here's the intersection of Salisbury Street and Park Avenue showing the somewhat quaint Queen Anne style fronts designed by George G...

I've told before how gun-running local entrepreneur cum property developer Zaccharia Pearson 'donated' a piece of land to ...

The Christian festival of Easter was cancelled this year; that quasi-pagan celebration of Christ's victory over Death was put to one ...

At some time in the down days of this year someone with way too much time on their hands found a way to brighten up the walls of this  e...

But I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home ... Long, long ago w...

Whenever I see this tree on my way back from the shop I say to myself I must take a picture of it in its springtime glory. Finally I had ...