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...

 I always keep all three of them turning, you can't be too careful.   The weekend in black and white is turning heads here .

A warning sign on the Loke near the Long Pond . Someone taking the initiative, good to see. Photos by  Margot K Juby

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...

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

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

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

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."                                           ...

Fridays are usually the busiest days for chippies, some say it's a throwback to Christian dietary interference on eating meat on tha...

Phone for the fish knives , Norman   As cook is a little unnerved Way back in the dim mists of time when I was but eleven years old...

  " It's funny 'cos it's true "                            Homer Simpson Just look what joy Hull had to look fo...

Back to Hunstanton for a rare scene these days, high street bakers (Mr Bun the Baker!) and butchers shops. I hope the current madness do...

Something I noticed during our short stay in Norfolk are the delightful, decorative signs that adorn villages and towns in these parts, u...

I suppose in a rational ordered world this vestige of medieval urban protection would have been cleared away and become nothing but an e...

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 ...

Two score and seven years ago our fathers dragged us into a Continent, conceived in Error, and dedicated to the proposition that all men...

In much the same way that out-of-works actors are not "out-of-work" but "resting" this shop is not "vacant...

Blogger allows you to make draft postings and somehow this picture has been hidden away in the "draft" for so long I've f...