Hull

Half term we went to Hull. You might not believe this but Hull is reinventing itself. There is now a Museums Quarter which Rowan wanted to visit. It was well worth it, with the Wilberforce Museum looking at the abolition of the slave trade [12 million slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas - 12 million...] and the Street Museum having a bicycle gallery with plenty of old and new bikes. There was a Moser race bike there that was the type I used to crave when I lived in Oxford 30 years ago; it now looks like a museum piece, which indeed it is.

The photo is of the Philip Larkin statue at the station [he is equally famous for being a librarian at Hull University and being a poet]. We are trying hard not to do to Rowan what Larkin claimed we would do - only time will tell.