Made in Hull…
A real sense of pride. That’s what we felt, as we followed up our night at the fireworks by taking to the streets to soak up Hull 2017’s Made in Hull trail, the work of…
The city of culture speaks…
Like everyone else, I imagine, I woke up somewhat bleary eyed on January 1, 2017. Typing some notes into my phone in a bed in Willerby – which, for the uninitiated, is a place sufficiently on…
Hull’s moment – T minus one day…
“The first step – especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money – the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the…
To the heart…
“And there are plays – and books and songs and poems and dances – that are perhaps upsetting or intricate or unusual, that leave you unsure, but which you think about perhaps the next day,…
Dean’s first collection on the streets…
Dean Wilson’s first collection of poetry was going to be called Confessions of a Redundant Postman. I do hope such trivia will turn up in a pub quiz one day – and not just in Hull…
Lit fest…
As Heads Up Festival closes, my brain shifts gear. No, I’m not about to go on a bender. Nah, I’m looking ahead to Humber Mouth, Hull’s literature festival. Y’know, the one with the best name…
For what it’s worth…
As someone who wrangled with whatever it is I wanted to be for longer than is sensible, I think this F Scott Fitzgerald quote is beautiful. Via @ElephantEnlightenedSociety
Heads Up Festival, October
So, what’s a boy like me do around this time of year? Well, it would appear these days I’m involved with Heads Up Festival, now in its seventh (how?!) season and normally running from early…
Words…
Struggling with words these days. Had a good natter about it last night. I think owning a typewriter might help. We’ll see. “Words… They’re innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other,…
Technique is everything…
A man on Bermondsey Street invited us to find out more about the Alexander Technique. He told us we had lost the ability to balance, could not sit up and down as effortlessly as we…