June 2009 Archives

SIZE really does matter, it turns out - at least in the cruise liner business.

The Crown Princess is the biggest liner ever to berth in the Mersey - at 113,000 tonnes and 951ft in length she's a very big girl indeed.

It's not every day that the star of Oscar-winning films - and the longest-running sitcom in history - turns up at the local Methodist church hall.
But that's what happened when Peter Sallis - alias Wallace, of Wallace and Gromit fame, and Clegg, of Last of the Summer Wine - turned up to present his show 'An Evening With ...' at the Prescot Festival.

If it wasn't for my washing line, I wouldn't now be slightly famous in Vietnam.

Let me explain .... the above picture made page 3 of the Echo, the front page of Merseymart, somewhere or other in the Daily Telegraph (whatever that is) and any amount of websites from here to Portugal, India and ... you guessed ... Vietnam.

The more discerning of you will have grasped immediately that this is an excellent picture of a UFO, proving their existence once for all.
Unless it's a Chinese lantern, of course, in which case I'm afraid it still looks like we're very much alone Out There.