Hull and Hereabouts

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual...

On Monday this week our House of Commons huffed and puffed and denied the Government's motion to have an election on December 12. On ...

So you're 18 years old, you've attained the maturity that comes with adulthood (Hah!); you've passed your A levels (or maybe...

What can I say about this pub that's right outside the entrance to the university? Well first off, when I came to Hull it was not a ...

This collection of 15000 plastic bottles (Tilly the Turtle, the happiest turtle in the world) was on display at the University last ye...

Or Crown Imperial Fritillary ... it's a native of Turkey, western Iran and Kashmir so I'm told. It doesn't seem to mind the ...

I meant to post these last year but obviously didn't. They're part of that exhibition at the University which I've shown bit...

I don't know about you but I often watch adverts and wonder what mind altering substance was involved in their creation. So it is wi...

Yet Another Larkin Event! It seems you can drive out Larkin with a pitchfork but he still comes straight back in. So this is the New Eye...

"The fact is that if you want a sports car, the MX-5 is perfect. Nothing on the road will give you better value. Nothing will give...

At the back of the Uni connecting one concrete sixties building with yet another is an elevated walk way and being elevated it needs ste...

At the entrance to the Uni the Botany Department shows it can grow a few plants. Margot probably wants some credit for taking this; how...

I freely admit my ignorance of Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry. You can't know about everyone, nor should ...

You've met this poor guy's feet the other day so I thought it it only appropriate that you were given a fuller, more rounded pi...

Armies may march on their stomachs but most folk use their feet. So what happens if, say, you get corns, calluses or ingrowing toe nails...

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”                                           ...

I mentioned a little while back the collection of statues dotted around the University campus and that I would wander back and have ano...

I was on my way to the doctors surgery (nothing serious, just some paper work) yesterday when I spotted this new addition to the Univers...

So that's the end of Winter as the meteorologists would have us believe and what a warm wimpy Winter that was. Anyhow on this Saint ...

There was a time when it was the rather quaint custom to name university buildings after what when on in them. So physics was carried ou...