Across the Mersey

Head up to Southport to catch up with some relatives – again a good day and time well spent. End my time with them at Blundell Sands looking at the Gormley installations on the beach. It's fascinating and is clearly now a key site in Liverpool in the same way the London Eye is for London – there is a film crews there doing some spot to camera. A crowd gathers and bizarrely we see it is living legend Ken Dodd doing the piece to camera. A local shares a punchline of an old joke,

“Ken Dodd died today.”
“Did he?”
“No, Doddy.”

Ah, that “famous Scouse sense of humour (TM)”....

A really pleasant evening is spent around at a flat in central Liverpool – I am strictly in 'hanger on' territory but the group are fun and welcoming. The cityscape view from the balcony is stunning – the lights of a ship heading up the Mersey to one side and the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral on the other. The evening evolves in to what can only be described as cheesy YouTube video karaoke – a lot more fun than it sounds and a thoroughly enjoyable evening.

Plus the French lose the opening Rugby World Cup match - fantastic!