Turning out to be a nice Tuesday. Just as well as I've got a 2 hour drive to Birmingham later

Photos from a stroll along the banks of the Mersey this afternoon

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Yachts on the Mersey at Fiddler's Ferry today. I'm not in one of them.

The River Mersey near Widnes yesterday

Love the elaborate style of cheap bottles of aftershave

Until recently there were 8 towers at this power station at Fiddler's Ferry, now only 4 and eventually none.

Fiddler's Ferry earlier today

It's a great little pub. Worth searching out

The Ferry Tavern just outside Widnes this morning.

I loved the deep dives into the psyche of the main character. The film version is superb but visual media can't do that as well a novel can

The Haunting of Hill House The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major …

Just finished reading the legendary The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson which I loved but not in the way I thought I would.
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The wallpaper in this pub is rather classy

Happy Mondays gig in Widnes, poster on wall today when I was having Sunday lunch

Friday afternoon

Grey Heron at Spike Island, Widnes yesterday

Byron Street, Runcorn this morning (location of apparently the most haunted house in the town!)

Liverpool Empire tonight

Sheila has assumed her Summer command position

Saturday night ear scratch

The more or less finished painting. I originally had a mannequin in the window but it just wasn't right somehow. This final version is a bit more downbeat but it fits better. And I have a ready made title now

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Amazing to think that the bright round thing in this very poor photo taken through my back window at 12:30am is the same thing that human astronauts are hurtling towards in a spaceship at this very moment

I'm 5 years behind you but desperately looking at options!

Absolutely glorious up at Hale, just outside of Widnes on the way to Liverpool, earlier. It was warm and still, the only sound the gentle lapping of the Mersey waters. Therapeutic.

The lighthouse at Hale near Liverpool earlier today

A not finished yet and not titled yet painting by me.

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😂😂 I'd use my own old biscuit tin for the same purpose except I don't have anywhere else to store my old biscuits