SLIGHT RETURN

It’s the day of the Hale Village Hall performance of Calm Down. The KLFRS are in Liverpool, or at least close by. A GANTOB rep has been ordered to attend by Maureen the current caretaker of the citrus themed archive. A grapefruit is to be taken to Hilbre Island this morning to feature in some photos, in preparation towards chapters in the book Little Grapefruit At Sea.

It’s all on the Wirral Line
Under the Mersey and past Birkenhead Park, the world’s first public park. Something to see on the way back from my trip to the sea [from a series of electronic postcards from a GANTOB rep]
Meanwhile, Paul and Ringo have a new song out yesterday (Home to us), which I can listen to as the Metro surfaces on the other side of the Mersey. What a time to be in and around Liverpool! (photos from earlier today as I stomped through the drizzle past football fans in search of breakfast)

Our GANTOB correspondent (a contributor to most of the GANTOB books, and a couple of Bill Drummond focused essays for gantob.blog) has posted these photos from the Hilbre Islands, a spot that he says is “one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited”.

Google Lens has helped those of us holed up in Scotland identify the plants as follows:
– sea thrift (Ameria maritima)
– common bird’s-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)
– sea campion  (Silene maritima)

The unadorned grapefruit needs no formal introduction. We did that in the text for Little Grapefruit At Sea. Speaking of which, we will post some of the other photos from the Hilbre Islands and environs for the artists in the GANTOB community to paint or otherwise illustrate, in the hope we can turn the text into a book, perhaps with an additional essay or new story.

Grapefruit on a roll
Back across the Mersey on this beauty
On the road to Hale Village Hall
The old dirt road to Hale
Hale Village Hall. First attempt at this picture I almost lost the grapefruit down the canon…

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