LIVERPOOL LOVE AFFAIR

I have just returned from Liverpool, my third visit in just over a year. The love affair continues. I find the city so inspiring…

Albert Dock (the Buddha on the long boat and the beautiful Pumphouse chimney)

Clouds dancing over the Mersey (to the beat! And the beat goes on…)

The Beatles statue, Pier Head (I could not see L8!)

The acorns in John's hand (cast from ones that were picked up outside the Dakota building in New York)

The Three Graces (simply majestic, poetry in stone)

Baltic Fleet (ale paradise and the conversation flows too)

Rum Porter (King of Ale)

Duke Street Market (Lamb Croquettes!)

Tate Liverpool

Wassily Kandinsky's Cossacks

L.S. Lowry's The Pond

Mark Rothko's Light Red Over Black

World Museum

Walker Art Gallery

Rose Wylie's PV Windows and Floorboards

Dancing clouds over Lime Street

Woolton Village

Eleonor Rigby gravestone (Joe from Maryland says "Hello")

Think like rice, act like a cloud at Strawberry Field

Walking the labyrinth

Mendips, 251 Menlove Avenue

Dreaming beneath a blue suburban sky

Cains Brewery

Baltic Triangle murals (especially Yellow Submarine & Klopp "We are Liverpool / This means more")

Hobo Kiosk (sadly closed but one day…)

Liverpool Cathedral

Tracey Emin, I Felt You And I Knew You Loved Me

Bluecoat (worth it for the posters alone, Yoko Ono 1967 especially & the little garden)

Probe Records (Wild Billy Childish & The Buff Medways — The Xfm Sessions and Michael Rother — Fernwärme cds)

Bold Street (watching the people)

The "bombed out church" (All Together Now — Christmas Truce Memorial… and all the little creative bombs that exploded in my mind…)