Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

turfy6

Right after all that tourism stuff I cant wait to make a trip to the "Pool" again, love the sound of the shopping centre KC and the red squirrell sanctuary. There could be an opening there for a tourism advisor me thinks called KC.;)

gilligansyle

Karmacat wrote: »

Are you working as usual on that Monday 18th? My mum's off on a WI trip, so I'll be wandering about Liverpool. I quite fancy going to Bootle or Aigburth, but if you're around, I'd rather meet with you.

Will pm you.

Have replied to your pm, Aigburth is good, I've never met you, but guess Lark Lane may be up your street oddly enough I've never been to Bootle.

Karmacat wrote: »

Kittikins - wow, I really don't know. There must be! Albert Dock is amazing, and very child friendly (mummy friendly too, lots of nice eateries). Educational stuff at the museums there. Half an hour outside the centre on the train, plus a looongish walk, there's a real life red squirrel sanctuary, near the Formby Point lifeboat base.

This one would be my fantasy, however:

http://www.spaceport.org.uk/content/Home.aspx

And you'd go on the ferry to get there! (all together now, "ferry, cross the Mersey, for this land's the place I love").... It doesn't seem particularly well advertised. Oh, and The Beatles Story. And Chinatown - not as big as London, of course, but still very fascinating.... There's all sorts.

You really have to do the ferry bit, or the yellow duck bus thing that passes for a city tour. In the city centre, there's the usual stuff, not necessary child friendly, like most cities, but tthe museum is good and I think its still got a planetarium and there's the Blue Planet Aquarium over the water which is really good.

But then, I'm REALLY REALLY biased; not only a scouser, born and bred, but have never lived more than 3 miles from where I was born :eek:

Cheery_Daff

Gosh, I didn't realise there were so many of us fake scousers (and real ones!) round here - I grew up in Ellesmere Port Technically not remotely scouse, but that doesn't convince some folk! :rotfl:

I'd second a trip to the Liverpool Museum for small kids, and I've been to the space port thing and it's quite cheery (not as cheery as what was in that building when I was a kid - an aquarium - with all the fish etc pulled out of the Mersey! :eek: :rotfl: - I LOVED it!)

Sounds like you're in for a great time

Pippilongstocking

Adds another place on the list to places to visit..............................:)

Buddleia advice sounds perfect - but if you have to hack it back really hard to get the fence done, cos its so tough, you know it will grow again

Goodluck with it all and curious about the sedge you've talked about........................ok yup I can't help it.

- sedge you say do tell more

Kittikins

Thanks chapesses, I like the sound of the squirrel sanctuary and oooo the ferry

taxi73

Just passing through and saying Hi xxx

All sounds fun on here...I had a look around the docks a few years ago and they were quite nice...I never tend to get to city centres but there are a few on my list to do

Karmacat

Morning! Hey Taxi, you're around! Hope you're feeling okay.

Ah, Liverpool - wouldn't it be great to be a tourist advisor in Liverpool? Cheery, I never realised you were born in Ellesmere Port! My ballet school did a few performances of Pineapple Poll in the little theatre there, its very cheery indeed. I'm glad to hear the spaceport's still open - trouble for *me* is that cos I'm an enthusiast, there isn't much new to me in those sorts of facilities, tho when the Leicester thing opened, one of the societies I belonged to did a day out there, and we got to crew a shuttle for launch and mission - it was lots of fun :j

Gill, I looked at Lark Lane on google - all those names my mum talks about! Lark Lane, Smithdown Road, Otterspool Prom, so many! I was born in Bootle, and my sister was born in Aigburth.... I can't believe you've never been to Bootle! Mind you, the only thing I can think of to go to is The Strand, and there's plenty of shopping like that elsewhere in the pool. Ah well! I envy you being born and living there ... that sense of "home" and "this is me" - I simply don't have that

Fay - Wol described the stuff as sedge when she was here on Tuesday. It clumps in the same way, and in the same size, as pampas grass :eek: but instead of upright pom poms, its got dangly strings of what pass for flowers.... I can't describe it any better than that, sorry. Its extremely unattractive, and takes up a lot of space, so its off, as soon as I can.

Pippilongstocking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carex_pendula

? that horror? ergh!

hello btw:)

troglodyte

Hey, I've got some of that in my garden, I actually quite like it! (along with another 'weed', caper spurge!)

We went to Liverpool last year with our daughter who was then 3 and a half. Went to the museum (can't remember what its proper name is - next to the aquarium) and took turns to look around the galleries while daughter spent several happy hours in the children's special place, drawing and colouring, making art, dressing up, reading books, playing at tea parties etc, she had a great time! It wouldn't have been so much fun for us though if we'd had to spend the entire afternoon there, lucky there were two of us.

Pippilongstocking

I like it too Trog - but I was being wierdly supportive about it and the value of it in a garden needing rennovated - but I only really like it cos it grows here and the birds love it if I were doon sooth - I'd maybe be more fussy!! (V shoddy excuse of mine for liking and non-liking of plants, I'm a plant tart what can I say)

Infact KC - if I covered the postage/money contribution to digging when you dug it out - I wonder if you'd send it up north? Or would that be a nightmare for you?