The city of Hull is not for the lily-livered. Before arriving, while driving past the spectacular engineering achievement that is the Humber Bridge you may be forgiven for expecting a modern and exciting city. This notion is quickly dispelled, however, once you find its landscape littered with monstrous derelict factories. They all seem abandoned, these [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Kingston-upon-Hell
March 25, 2007
Uncle Edvard
March 11, 2007
We have of late in our household become rather self-conscious about the food we eat, more precisely about the faceless animals which after a miserable life, get slaughtered in some grotesque abattoir and end up on our plate. Well, we have been conscious of it for quite some time now: eating meat and feeling guilty [...]
Red Nose Day
March 9, 2007
If I suggested on this blog that I was going to compile a paperback anthology of blog writing for publishing a week from today, and that you were all welcome to contribute your bestest and funniest post, you would probably give me a pretty funny look and wonder if that strait-jacket you bought for that [...]
Welcome
March 7, 2007
Well hello again! It’s really good of you to drop by. As you can see, the place is still a bit of a mess and requires a fair amount of work to become habitable. Make yourselves comfortable though, grab a drink and feel free to have a poke around the place. Oh and don’t forget to tell me what you think. [...]
The Smoking Creature From the Black Lagoon
March 1, 2007
‘I have a present for you’, she trills brightly, and with a flourish places a small plastic bag on my upturned palms. ‘I think it’s time, don’t you?’, she says smiling.
I take it out of the bag. It’s a book in a glossy white cover with even glossier salient writing. The title makes my heart [...]
