Victoria Park

The thing about Widnes is that for all the miserable and hideous excuses for humanity there is certain gems to be had and the big one for me has to be in the buildings. Widnes has scores (well ok five or six) of listed buildings from 900 year old churches to classic sandstone public buildings. Some of the areas of Widnes are lovely too, Widnes is essentially a conurbation on a tiny scale, several villages all being enveloped into a sizable town. Appleton, Farnworth and Cronton all have there green areas. Cronton having Pex Hill and Appleton having Victoria Park.

And its on Victoria Park that i want to focus, When i was a kid the park was my home away from home, be back from school then straight out to play a game very loosely based on football (all with enough time left over to be a geek, amazing). Its actually a very good park, its a fair size, has tennis and basketball courts and a skatepark. It also for some reason now has a climbing rock (is the council begging for some cocky little shit to fall off inebriated on blue WKD and try to sue for negligence). Now the council and a team of volunteers are putting a lot of effort into introducing wildlife. We have a pond, which already has geese, swans, moor hens and ducks (and duckings) and a nature trial though the wooded area.

welcome and also hi, i'm treebeard

a batcave, but where does the mobile go?

a carved rabbit

woody woodpecker!, i'll just go shall i?

Oh the options,

After struggling to find journalist work after my contract not being renewed at the Scottie Press I have what may prove to be salvation. However this lies at the other end of 20,000 leagues, no wait I mean words, to be honest it’s not the amount of words that I find daunting, its what to write about. When faced with something as impossibly open like this I tend to become just a little indecisive and lost. Twenty thousand may seem like an awful lot but I have written essays half that size in little under a day. 

Easy, but what do I focus on? Spoilers, it may be for a German magazine so politics and unemployment, two subjects I can rave on are out the window, anyway I will hopefully soon come to me in a flash of inspiration, that or I’ll fail badly and cry.

A day in Liverpool

We saw lots, Matisse, the big Henry the eighth (I am, I am) and also a Banksy, I've liked his work for a while but never been a huge fanboy.
Anyway here's 'Cardinal sin'.