Nice pictures but I think you need to take your rose tinted historical glasses off.

My grandma was born in 1910 and raised down Hessle Road, her father died when she was about six, lost at sea and her mother remarried a drunken alcoholic brute. They never had enough food and lived in slum housing, she suffered with malnutrition, by the age of thirteen she had TB. The abusive stepfather eventually committed suicide and her mother remarried, at fifteen the new step father threw her and her younger brother out and she went to work in the Needlers sweet factory to support them.
She met my granddad and things were better but still I suspect tough, although normal to them she led a fairly normal life from there on in and died in 1987.

I doubt her experiences were at all unusual.

My point is, that away from the offices of the big shipping lines and fishing companies responsible for some of the beautiful architecture I would say life was very much worse for your average citizen in terms of social and economic opportunity than now.

Preston Road is well known as one of the most disadvantaged areas of the city but has recently seen the opening of what looks a very nice school, the opportunities are there to be taken, yes, it might be hard, but at least they're there.

I'm generalising an awful lot and I admit to having little knowledge about Hulls current climite as i haven't lived there for a long time, but you get the gist.

Oh, I know. I'm not glamourising the poverty, ignorance, misery and rudimentary plumbing. Now [iis[/i better - it just looks worse. You take things very literally sometimes.

You asked the question, and if you're accusing me of having a binary world view then how very dare you Sir, how very dare you.

fx> Removes gauntlet and foppishly swipes Mild Rover across the chops <fx

One of these in the garden this morning... www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdgui ... index.aspx Odd little thing, anyone else seen one?

One of these in the garden this morning... www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdgui ... index.aspx Odd little thing, anyone else seen one?

Quote ="Wildmoose"One of these in the garden this morning... www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdgui ... index.aspx Odd little thing, anyone else seen one?'" Can't say I've ever seen one, we have a very angry Robin. He's great, he terrorises the Guinea Pigs if they're out.

Quote ="Wildmoose"One of these in the garden this morning... www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdgui ... index.aspx Odd little thing, anyone else seen one?'" Can't say I've ever seen one, we have a very angry Robin. He's great, he terrorises the Guinea Pigs if they're out.

My Bike to Work voucher finally came through and I've GOT MY BIKE! IT'S ACE! I've been playing on it this afternoon and I'm going to ride to work on it tomorrow if it's not raining.

Took Marfa and Sandra's advice and got a hybrid. Was a bit scared I might fall off because I haven't ridden bike for about 20 years, but it really is like "riding a bike..."

It's a Specialized ladies black Globe:

...but I've got mudguards and a rear basket on mine. It's very beautiful.

Anyone watching Wales v Aus? Great opening quarter.

Territorial little things robins...maybe it's very red robin in your garden? Don't think he'd be taking any crap off those guinea pigs

Nice....You will love it I adore mine, it has definitely toned my bottom and legs as well.Make sure you have a good quality lock, thieves target hybrids.

Looks a very nice bike that, I keep toying with getting one but I don't really want any more hobbies that I can't do with Ms. Terrorist and there's no way I'm going cycling with her.

The only time I've seen her on a bike was in San Francisco when we hired bikes with our friends. Ms. Terrorist could understand gears at all, the one hill of any size that we went up lead up to the Golden Gate bridge, in the end the quickest way to get her up was for me to ride to the top, leave my bike, run down and then ride Ms. Terrorists bike whilst she walked.

It was ridiculous, mind you, I then got knocked off my bike by a taxi so i wasn't a whole lot more proficient.

37 degrees here today.
still bloody hot and it's 11.20 at night.
place stinks of bushfires.

A more pleasant smell than the usual one of Australians I'd wager.

It's a bit cooler here, only 25. Might have to put my cardigan on soon.
Seen any ticks lately?

Had a dream last night that Mr BH dumped me for Stacey Slater, he told me to leave our apartment, (It was our first place together) because she was moving in, he even told me to leave her my wedding dress. Needless to say when I spoke to him on the phone this morning he got it with both barrels.

The cheeky sod put in a request for someone a bit fitter next time.

I dreamt Mr B left me for Kate Adie once. Oh, wait, that was Mr B's dream.

I know we don't [ireally[/i talk rugby on here but the hilarity over on The Wrong Side Of The Chocolate Rivers Tributary is too funny not to mention.

There is a serious issue here though, won't somebody think of the children? This is a family friendly forum with no flipping swearing or talk of naughtiness of any ilk. So with a thanks to the very responsible Chris28, an esteemd moderator form over there, I'm happy to say that I have forwarded this piece of advice to the UKBA at Manchester airport ready for Mr. Seymour's imminent arrival.

It is funny/desperate, but utterly predictable. Agar's signing mind.




Thanks, but it's Heathrow you want. Assuming he's not binned off at Dubai for unsociable behaviour, anyway.

Why is it heathrow

I guess you haven't watched or read the news in the last month then.

Lol yeah just twigged

<sigh> Michael Buble