Event host, media educator, dementia speaker, embarrassing Dad, partner, reader, photographer, former @BBCLeeds presenter, BBC 34 years
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Honoured and rather moved to be chosen as the next President of @OldHymerians at my school in #Hull
I was a pupil at @Hymers_College from 1975 to 1985
Yes, I find it hard to believe I'm that old too! A proud moment 🙏
Here I am with new chair, the fab @EmilyPennack
A walk round the Temple Newsam estate, Leeds
11.01am, 2nd October 2026
@TempleNewsam
Paul’s Pond, Bramhope, Leeds - dug as a fish pond in the 1820s but named after the later owner of Cookridge Hall, William Paul
4.26pm, 30th September 2026
The mighty River Humber - taken from the window of a @TPExpressTrains heading back to Leeds (home for 33 years) after a day in Hull (where I was born and brought up)
4.09pm, 29th September 2026
#hull #eastyorkshire #humber #riverhumber
Hull icons part 2): a day trip back to my home city
29th September 2026
1) ‘Voyage’: statue at Victoria Pier
2) public toilets, grade II listed, Victoria Pier
3) Ferens Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Square
4) Three Ships / Co-op mural
#hull #eastyorkshire #eastridingofyorkshire
I more often host events than speak at them, but what a ball I had in the company of the excellent @ColneValleyMVC
I spoke after dinner following a day of stimulating workshops at @Thevenuehalifax
Great to chat to @Thom_Singer and @rhianbeau
Thanks for asking me! 🎶
Hull icons: a day trip back to my home city (29/9/26)
1) statue of the poet Philip Larkin by Martin Jennings, Paragon Station
2) Bob Carver’s fish and chip shop on Trinity House Lane
3) Trinity House building of 1753
4) emigrants’ statue by Neil Hadlock at Humber Quays
A brilliant start to @LeedsIntFest 2026 with the charming, funny and vibrantly intelligent @louistheroux
Deft hosting of our journey ‘Inside the Louisphere’ by @HarrietRose_
Appropriately this was an evening fizzing with ideas (and the fab @therimaahmed)
The living embodiment of the Yorkshire Dales National Park symbol: on a walk near Lower Barden reservoir, Wharfedale
1.25pm, 26th September 2026
@yorkshire_dales
What a treat to host the inspiring Raising the Bar Awards 2026 for the top team at @WNYChamber 🎤
I never cease to be moved by the stories of businesses - small, medium and large - going the extra mile in education, environment and community work 🥇
#RtB2026 @FlutterEnt
Queen’s Gardens, Hull: approaching sunset
Dad remembered the gardens soon after the old Queen’s Dock was filled in (1930). I remember them as a childhood playground. Really like the finished remodelling - my first visit.
6.22pm, 17th September 2026
#hull #queensgardenshull
