Sitting here looking at the photographs I've taken of Granby Street Market today, colour intensified like my memories, I'm struck by how ordinary this can all seem now it happens every month. But also how it's definitely not ordinary at all. Every month now, more or less, I come here for the social life. Not [...]
Grids
Have you ever looked at the grids in your street, really looked at them? Thought not, so we've had a look for you. At least we have if you happen to live in any of four roads in New Brighton or a few more back over in Liverpool. And what's more our inspection was carried [...]
Love Wavertree: I Do
The way it started was this. A few months ago a journalist arrived in a taxi from Lime Street. Whoever it was didn't have much time to get back to London so they knocked off an over-hasty article which gave the impression that Wavertree wasn't much of a place to live, for various reasons. One [...]
Walking Through Time
Each morning, early, I would leave the place where I was staying and walk through time, all day. All of the days of the late summertime coming into autumn. I had work to do and the work got done, writing work that required so much walking, thinking and asking for help. "What was this like [...]
Evensong in Autumn
Time in Holy Cross Church on the Woodchurch Estate and Flaybrick Memorial Gardens, Birkenhead, on National Heritage Weekend. The practice of Evensong is apparently something early Christians derived from the Jewish faith, where prayers are offered for particular times of the day. I know this because Sarah and I spent our late Sunday afternoon this [...]
Time In Utopia: Excerpt from a fictional dissertation
I've been busy. For most of the summertime that's now ending regular readers of this blog might have noticed there's not been many new posts to be regularly reading. Because I've been away. Not entirely away from Liverpool, but away nonetheless. In a fictional place of my own making as well as many days spent [...]
