Ferreting around in Liverpool

A nice relaxing day again in Liverpool. Woke at around 8.30 a.m. and Malcolm cooked kippers washed down with a mug of tea. The sun was shining brightly, although it was still chilly, and we walked up Lark Lane and Linnet Lane to Christ Church at Toxteth Park. There were about 25 attending the service which was conducted by the vicar, Rev. David Parry. It was a nice informal All Age Service with an illustrated sermon from David which had a very amusing incident. He had brought a rucksack of props for the service - a calculator, bottle of cooking oil, a towel all to illustrate the story of Jacob's Dream. He ask one of the women in the congregation to put her hand in the rucksack and pull out an item - his exact words were "put your hand in there and have a ferret" (meaning a rummage around). She let out an enormous scream thinking he had said "put your hand in there I have a ferret!" It created quite a lot of mirth. I stopped for coffee with Malcolm and had a pleasant chat to David, Chris (the lay reader and another solicitor) and to one or two others I know - and some I didn't. Malcolm and I went for a walk in Sefton and Prince's Park it being such a lovely sunny day and I took quite a lot of photographs of the park and its monuments including the "crystal palace" in the centre of Sefton Park. We had lunch at the Chinese restaurant in Lark Lane where they put on an "all you can eat buffet" for £8 per head. I left Liverpool at just before 4 p.m. and was back in Winterslow for 8.30 p.m. - the traffic having been fine apart from around Walsall again. I had a lovely bath and we went to bed early tonight. Another busy day beckons tomorrow.