Sharon McGuinness

I will ignore this analysis until Matthew names which bits of Kent he'd have given to Hitler in 1940.

Have spent the storm binge watching This City is Ours ready for series 2 starting tonight and my internal monologue now has a Scouse accent.

Dress for the job you want!

Burned my mouth on the syrup sponge I had for pudding. I regret nothing.

Quite proud of this pic of the beautifully restored Palm House in Sefton Park

And just like that she was 5 years old again.

Another lovely day in Liverpool. Revisiting my childhood in Aigburth and Sefton Park then a wonderful concert by the RLPO at Philharmonic Hall where we had the privilege of seeing Mariam Batsashvili doing Saint Saens Piano Concerto No2. And Debussy’s La Mer and Ravel’s Bolero in the 2nd half.😍

Well what a lovely evening in Liverpool that was. Apéritifs at Petit Cafe du Coin then Mexican food at La Parilla on Bold St and a cocktail at Spanish Caravan on the way back to our holiday let. Liverpool more lively on a Wednesday than Lancaster on a Saturday!

Saw an old friend in the Museum of Liverpool. This is “Blackie”who used to live in Blacklers Department Store. I’ve ridden that horse!! 😍

Spending a couple of days in Liverpool so we can see the Philharmonic tomorrow night. Braved the comically bad weather today to do a tour of the Old Dock - a tiny corner of which can be seen under Liverpool One. Liverpool’s first wet dock built 1710ish. Amazing.

Making mischief plans for the day. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Still need about a hundred more people kind enough to provide a recording lasting just a few seconds.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

I've just emailed a pdf to work saying "thoughts on the enclosed pdf?" Except it autocorrected pdf to puffin and now I'm imagining really disappointed colleagues.

As I've said before, when it comes to protests we're all just amateurs compared to the French...

THERE ARE MORE OF THEM?

WAR! Same road, rival crochet. Ignore the Give Way sign, the crafters of Bearwood will never give way to each other.

Ozzy Osborne and his bat have appeared on a Bearwood pillar box in time for Halloween.

Funny how the commentary team have been able to hear the Kop any time it makes any noise about Guilty of 114 Charges FC players being cheats, but they all go deaf when there’s been repeated tragedy chanting.

Would have been nice to dish out some immediate karma but wasn’t to be. That red card did for us.

Watching plaster dry…

Ugh - after a week of having to go into office daily again and an afternoon in crowds at music festival I now have a cold. No good comes from being around people I tell you! 🤧🤧🤧

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My son when about five once conflated “important appointment” into “impointment” which I think should be a word.

Yall wanna see a puppy with hiccups getting mad

Marvin stared at the painting of his great grandfather, who had survived two wars, worked three jobs to support his fourteen children, and eventually died saving a box full of kittens from a fire, and thought to himself, "You know, if I knocked that over, I could sleep on it."

I’ve got a pint of the black stuff and the Irish band were great so all is well with the world again.

I’ve had to come away from the previous gig due to abject see you next Tuesdays. So here I am in Storey Gardens for an Irish folk band which is much more the ticket!

Isn’t it awful when you come out for a chat and someone holds a music festival around you? There are 3 fucking sections to this pub. Guess where the loud talkers have sat? 🙄

Ah well it’s only half an hour!

It’s music festival weekend in Lancaster so everywhere is rammed. Chose my lunch spot on the basis there was someone playing guitar & Spanish lute. Lovely I thought. Reader, I was wrong. 😬

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.

Progress is being made though. They had to completely rebuild my floor but I am now free of ominous creaks [and so is the floor etc ha ha]…

Been round to Beryl next door’s for a shower and hair wash. I feel like a new woman!! 😅

Bathroom fitter has different apprentice with him today who has just had to be inducted into the mysteries of my odd shaped house. Lots of explanations of angles and where they will have to square off!!

The other end still has its floor at least! And a slightly precariously balanced loo. Still - needs must!

Floors are overrated huh?

Last day of bathroom looking like this. Awaiting arrival of gang of men and a skip to commence the “worse before it gets better” phase. 😱

A Comfortable Man!!

Important duck business…

Lancaster looking gorgeous today in the soft Autumn light

Man City fans thinking they can spot flaws in a decision made by three senior lawyers is the new Dads think they could win a game against Serena Williams.

Went for my flu jab (I get a free one due to an underlying health condition) at the surgery. They were running a special clinic so very high throughput. I did bring the average age in the waiting room down quite substantially though!! 😅

Today I am in 19th century Birmingham and researching the Library fire of 1879. I am learning a lot about 19th C disaster preparedness. However what everyone* wants to know is what was the “unpleasantness” which caused the resignation of the Librarian and which he promised would not be repeated?

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

A long few days at work with a somewhat late finish at the office tonight plus train journey home so took myself out for my tea and had an epic chicken pie!

Woman walks into a Hull hairdresser and asks for a perm. Certainly, he replies: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' #NationalPoetryDay