Hull and Hereabouts

A strange thing today on the local TV news; a Labour MP calling for more competition and openness in business: the business, that is, of ...

Some nice people have not only planted cardoons in Newland Avenue but supplemented the fine small trees with hollyhocks some of which h...

Out and about on Newland Avenue this afternoon and came across this splendid beast growing in a raised bed. It's a cardoon or globe a...

As you go up Newland Avenue (up meaning Northwards) you pass under a rail bridge and maybe pay little heed to the patch of land just to...

Living where I do and the town centre being where it is some form of transport is needed to get me from the one to the other and nine ti...

The neighbourhood knitters of Newland Avenue have been at it again this time on the theme of bees. I wouldn't fancy being stung by ...

Goddard Avenue gets the thorough ligature treatment while major surgery is performed on Newland Avenue, and pedestrians are protected by...

It's that time of year when the Horse Chestnut trees send forth their floral delights. These contrasting specimens are on the corner...

This was once the Blockbuster video rental shop until, well we all know what happened to the video rental business ("Please mammy ...

To celebrate St George , the patron saint of England, Englishness and all that goes with it, what could be more fitting, I thought, ...

The end of the forty days of Lent is in sight and to celebrate some trees on Newland Avenue have been adorned with white knitted rabbits...

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; He bought a crooked cat ...

  They're a romantic lot on Newland Avenue so when Valentine's Day looms they deck the trees with red hearts and ribbons. Oh and...

Zebra had to close earlier this year due to the landlord raising the rent by about 50%.  This is the newly reopened Zebra still on Newl...

Well now there's  Margot saying the other day "Oh that'll be removed in a day or so". "What?" says I. "...

It will not surprise you to learn I'm not one for poppy wearing or remembering past wars and all the dead and all that business. My ...

A couple of students celebrate paying off their loans by getting married ... Margot K Juby took this delightful shot.

Fat Larry's if I remember right sold second hand CDs and that sort of stuff a few years back. This corner block including the shop n...

Outside this Italian restaurant on Newland Avenue was parked the smallest delivery van I've ever seen. This place was a year or so a...

Newland Avenue, Hull Readers of this blog will know that I am a tea man myself. It was not always so. I used to drink loads of coffee, ...