Castro - to be fair about the Daily Mail. I was once offered a free copy in Smiths and said No It's too right wing for me - but that counterbalances your assertions about Guardian readers. And pieking surely at uni you don't just go after easy lurcals, as surely 99.9% of students are easy (I was one of the 0.1% - as I was a good catholic boy who spent 2 years in the Catholic chaplaincy on Newland Park)
I had got to know when he came as a reporter to HDM a guy called David Lucas, who is now president of Sandwich GC. His father was Laddy Lucas a famous fighter pilot from the war and his uncle Douglas Bader, so obviously came from a rather well to do family. He joined our golf club and I had the pleasure in playing regularly with him for a few year whilst he stayed here. He was a Cambridge blue at golf, and he had nothing but praise for the people of Hull and the City, and said people should live here before they making negative comments about the area, as he had nothing but good things to say about his stay.
It does make we wonder why Hull gets ragged non stop when there are places far worse. I lived in the Medway towns for 4 years in Kent, the garden of England. Granted, there are some beautiful areas of Kent but Chatham, Gillingham and the like are more like the toilet of England. It's a complete khazi.
Yeah kinda, as much as I would've loved to have stayed in the area, work comes first and my fiance had accepted a job at Harrogate hospital. It's ****ing lovely here, there's more fit birds than you can shake a stick at. That's the thing with media, you have to go where the work is. And unless you can get a job on RH, you're a bit fooked. Unless you don't mind commuting to Leeds.
That's the story the world over ... people slag off areas they deem to be low socio economic areas, and they wouldn't know as they have never been there. Generally the people doing the slagging off come from a worse area than the area that they are slagging off
Iv'e read that crap towns thing from cover to cover. The really confusing thing is,that most towns get a really awful write up,so you can understand why they are in there. Jesus,what was that place in Scotland that's built on stilts,and sounds like there must be zombies roaming the streets ? I reached crap town no1,with some trepidation,and just ended up thinking "what has made us the worst then" ? It doesn't really say anything bad. According to the authors,Hull smells of death. What the **** ? And the sky glows orange at night,something to do with reflection from the Humber,yeah and ? They made us the worst town in Britain,and then failed to say anything bad about us,that actually made any sense. Is there a book that lists Britain's crappest books ???
He did make a few more books in the following years and Hull had dropped down the list each year not sure what happened or the reasons why it was or changed but oh well its one mans opinion so **** him haha
i saw the crime one about it being one of the most crime ridden places in England , but i assume the majority of crime is petty and mostly against property Thats not to say its not upsetting as i have been burgled in 1995 , but i don't ever fear for my safety in Hull . There are plenty of places i wouldnt wish to live - but nowhere where i would fear to walk . For a city its size , i think the real negative thing about the city is its just bloody averagely middle of the road.
Love Hull or hate it, the place is definitely not middle of the road. I like this from the wikitravel site: "Anybody who has experienced the city first-hand without any preconceived notions or bias, will tell you that Hull is unique. It is no longer isolated, as transport links with the rest of the country are more than adequate. This was not the case for hundreds of years though, and the result is a true one-off. The place has a genuine cultural identity and character of its own. It is reflected in the accent (pronounce "oh no" as "er ner" and you will have an idea), the humour, the self-effacement and spirit of its people. Hull's colourful (at times startling) but always fascinating urban fabric and history are its markers. The flat landscape and low but often breathtaking historic buildings give a sense of there being a massive backdrop of sky, and when combined with a view out to the brooding, bleak, mighty expanse of the Humber Estuary from the point at which it converges with the River Hull, it becomes apparent that there is something special in the location of the town. "
Thing is I never realised how people who are not from the area or indeed the country see Hull through their eyes. We had a young lady come to work where I was, she was from Canada but her father was Columbian. She spoke 6 languages fluently and her father ran his own newspaper business and she use to help him out over the internet by writing and translating certain articles for him. Then one day she told me her dad was coming over and of course being a bit surprised he was not going to more apparently glamorous destinations in the UK she told me she had sent him some pictures of Hull and the surrounding area. So he came over was only in Hull for a week or so and decided to stay he was smitten with the area and its people. But he was not alone as someone else I was talking to said the same thing, her father was a surgeon from Kent and came up to see his daughter working in Hull, he too like the place so much he moved to the area, worked in the NHS in Hull and loves it, especially the Humber as he is a keen yachtsman, funny old world.
Well, I'm kind of a big deal. People know me. I have many leatherbound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.
Most people just inform people that they have a degree, they don't feel so insecure they have to add first-class. A Masterrs? Is that even higher than a Masters? Anyway, have to go. I'm reading the paper and watching TV so I am busy studying media myself at the moment.
