Still quietly emerging from the shadows here, this Saturday I get up and the summer’s arrived. Not the ‘kids in wellies’ summer we’ve had to get used to these climate damaged days, but a real ‘hot town, summer in the city’ nostalgic kind of day where the shadows and shade are occasionally welcomed for a bit of cool.
I’m out all of the glorious day, in Granby and then down at the Pier Head.
Janet asks me if I’ll publicise a film-making course she’s running? Happily, details below.
Next I’m off to the Pier Head.
Ah, Ronnie, that song! Love, love, love it. Have you heard the Joe Cocker version? Oh, now you’ve got me thinking about music, maybe play Delta Lady later… Seems I too am emerging from the shadows. Thanks, for sharing it.
The Pier Head is always sunny in my mind’s eye though I know it’s far from the truth! The first year we lived up here the Stranglers were on there free – we just walked up – didn’t know they were appearing. And then there was Gerry and the Pacemakers singing Ferry Cross the Mersey in the blazing sun as the ferry came in – plus Don’t let the Sun Catch you crying – which I have as a 45 – and of course, You’ll Never Walk Alone. What a place.
Sad that moving just a few stops further up the line means I come into Liverpool less… must make an effort. But then there is the big wheel a a little way along in the other direction at Funland – and the beaches and the birds… So much world to explore. And the black dogs always seem a bit less present when the sun shines. Fingers crossed.
Glad you’re emerging. And if I’ve helped I’m more than glad.
Haven’t heard Joe Cocker’s Summer in the City. But absolutely love Gerry’s Don’t let the sun catch you crying. When you come here next maybe we could go and sit together in the high wind that’s usually blowing in at the Pier Head!
Jerry’s Don’t let the sun and the smoking Hot Town summer in the city lyrics are more of my absolute favorites. Wish I could have been there to hear all of them in person. Thanks for the melodious memories and for the glimpses of sunshine seen in many well loved, though often melancholy, songs on both sides of the pond. Lovely photos, too, I would add.
Always a pleasure to follow your walks through camera
Lovely Ronnie! Summer sun makes you feel good doesn’t it? Glad the fog is lifting. Those shadow periods seem to hit for no reason at all and they are all enveloping. Lots of Vit D can only help! Don’t like to think of you incapacitated in any way. You’re my constant inspiration! All best wishes to you and the team for the start of ‘Coming Home’!xxx
Thanks for ‘constant inspiration’ Lindsay. Some deep thoughts, for me, can only happen on dark days, so I just have to go with them when they come. And not carry on as if everything’s fine.
And Coming Home is going really well, thanks for the good wishes xx