Have you ever thought about how ropes are made? Or at least, how they were traditionally made? Historically there was great demand for ropes, especially wherever there were ships. And the ropes needed to be long. To make them required space to walk, as strands of the chosen fibre needed to be spread out and twisted together.
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If you look at a map of England you will see that Hull, or Kingston upon Hull to give it its proper name, is rather out on a limb. Lying on the Humber Estuary its location so close to the sea has resulted in a history shaped by sea-going trade and shipping.
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While May has been green this year, we haven’t always had spring-like weather; quite the contrary! Some days have felt as chilly as a mild day in winter, while towards the end of the month we had a heatwave that would have felt fairly extreme even in August, with temperatures topping 34 degrees Celsius, breaking – no, smashing – all records.
