BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY

True it's different for everyone but everyone has special memories of bank holidays, for me today, the August one has always been the most special and today was good more for memories than for actualities but it's the day that supplies the memories.

Lifeboat, Red Arrows, Cars up Grambo's path, Sausage rolls and sandwiches, unopened packets of crisps, take aways, charity stalls, dogs, people, sunshine, rain, aimless television, live music, good company, buses on the prom, funfair rides, saturday trains and sunday buses

Yes it was Lifeboat day again today, doesn't it come round quick and as always it was cold, blustery and sunny all rolled in to one, typical sort of bank holiday really! Maybe not as many people down there as usual and that would be a combination of the weather and the fact that the Reds were on performing their flat display for the twenty best minutes of the day at 12.00. The later they are on the more people come and stay. No I didn't see them today, I was at work and from there I could see that they had arrived. Performing as they did their flat display while at work didn't see the heart because they don't do that in their flat display which is probably why. 12.25 WKD reported that she had watched it as the female pervert of Hoylake. Just her bed clothes and a mac from the front door. She claims nobody saw her. I hope she's right!
Mind you we saw them arriving last evening. Wow, WKD said there's the Red Arrows, Not exactly replied Mainman that's ten red hawks that tomorrow will be the Red Arrows. WILKONEWS does like to be technically correct if not politically so! And yes 10 is right!

We went down after I came in from work and Lady of Hilbre was looking resplendent on the beach, side by side with an old rowing boat lifeboat which highlighted for me the historical and technological differences in saving lives.
Busman's holiday for me still in uniform from work taking pictures of buses that are owned by Wirral Museums? What's that all about?
On the old Wallasey Corporation bus an excellent display of some of Bob Bird's photographs and his son Robin made us laugh telling us that people, especially kids, had been queueing up to go upstairs on the bus rather than look at his dad's photos. Well it does take all sorts doesn't it?
WKD wouldn't even go on the Reds simulator but was keen enough to watch the brilliant new documentary screened on BBC1 at 5 this evening about the selection process involved in becoming a 'red' pilot. Never got to find out incidentally how 'shaggy' got his nick name!

Bank holiday transport never ceases to amaze me by the way. Trains are advertised as a saturday service, though there is no specific saturday service! Weekday timetables all state Monday to Saturday? The only thing that is different is that certain trains are not run as 6 car trains on a Saturday, however today because of the Mathew Street Festival all the trains I saw today on the WK and NB lines were actually 6 carriages. Buses well it's a lot clearer run a Sunday service which means effectively Hoylake is isolated from normal Birkenheadish destinations but people can of course every hour go and sample the delights of Bromborough or Leasowe whichever takes their fancy!

All in all a good day, interspersed with breaks in the weather and finger food at Grambos.

A fresh memory from this particular one in future years may well be that of James Nesbett in the charity pro am golf thing on ITV and the incredibly powerful hard hitting, second of three, Murphy's Law on BBC1 just a couple of hours later. Before which, by the way they warned about the language, rightly so, but failed to mention the ingratuitous violence found therein!

A brief word before I go about Grambo's mix up of the day....knowing there were nine red arrows she was so delighted to tell people about the afore mentioned documentary. being on ITV at 9.00 instead of BBC at 5!