There have been very few outrageous eccentics in the shop over the last month. Does the bad weather keep them at home? Britain is often supposed to have more than its fair share of them. I tend to agree, but also believe that this town (Southport) has them to excess. Helena Brookfield, at the sandwich shop round the corner, suggests that there is a portal to all parallel universes just outside her premises. There are, she holds, far too many looneys in Southport for a single universe.

Certain Liverpudlians have suggested that we make idle boast of the large number of Southport eccentrics. Liverpool, they tell, us has quality rather than quantity. Their best of course is the man who used to "play" silently a brown cardboard cut-out banjo in the city centre.

This site is well worth your time.

All lancastrians will find it delightful.

I'm told the site is doing well. Lancastrian expatriates are visiting in fair numbers.