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Love it or loathe it, you can’t ignore it. It’s origins can be traced back some seven centuries. Yes, it’s Hull Fair and it’s here again! The fair has become synonymous with bad weather in Hull and the term ‘Hull Fair Weather’ means anything but fair. This year’s opening day couldn’t though have been fairer – mild and sunny. As kids, our lives were punctuated not by births, marriages and deaths but by birthdays, bonfire night, Christmas and Hull…

Latest comment by BobCarter about 11 hours ago

MikeCovell & Denno – Thanks. At the moment I’m using a Pentax DSLR 6MP

Another unseasonably mild October day – it’s hard to believe that Hull Fair will be with us in a few days! I spotted a couple of interesting things on my way home today along the river bank. The first was a Small Copper. No, not that sort – I know they’ve relaxed the height rules but this one wasn’t a Bobby on the beat but a beauty of a little butterfly enjoying the autumn sunshine. I am told that these little autumn-copper-coloured butterflies…

MikeCovell – Mike, as Sgt.Phil Esterhaus of copshow Hill Street Blues fame would say, "Hey, let’s be careful out there."!

MikeCovell – You wouldn’t really expect much silence in these industrial areas of course, I reckon you’d probably hear a morning cough rather than a morning chorus in some of them! The snare is worrying – there are a lot of foxes in these areas. I often walk around them and most people who you chat to tell you about the foxes, and, as you know, most of them are out walking their dogs. The snares don’t discriminate!

Silence is golden, or so they say. Apparently, it’s also very rare! When was the last time that you experienced silence – or rather, just the sound of nature? A story in the national press recently reported that Andrew Flintham’s attempts to record an entire morning chorus (of around 60 to 90 minutes) of British birdsong have so far been unsuccessful due to the background sounds of traffic, planes and other man-made sounds and noises. He recorded…

Latest comment by BobCarter 4 days ago

MikeCovell – Mike, as Sgt.Phil Esterhaus of copshow Hill Street Blues fame would say, "Hey, let’s…