I LOVE being a Scouser.

That feeling of never quite knowing what life’s going to throw at you. Which is exactly what gives you the buzz. And the edge.

Wednesday was a great Scouse day. As Chair of National Museums, I was looking forward to showing our ex-Patron, the Duke of Westminster, around the new Museum of Liverpool on Thursday morning.

However, as that is when I usually write these columns, I decided to get up early and do it first thing before the phones started ringing, because Wednesday itself was the day the short-list for the UK City of Culture award was to be made, and I am also Chair of the Independent Advisory Panel.

So, by 9am, I had written a piece about how 2008 was the inspiration for the project and how Liverpool will now forever be the benchmark, etc, etc; just when the phones started ringing.

Not about the City of Culture, but a typically Scouse twist.

Just as things seemed to be calming down in Wavertree, another local, and legendary, MP is standing down at the next election.

This time it is Peter Kilfoyle and the people of Walton who will be waiting with bated breath to see if they, too, will be lucky enough to have a rising star rush up the motorway to represent them.

But can one city really be so lucky? Which links to the City of Culture short-list, in a number of ways.

One is that not every city can win the title and although Birmingham, Derry, Norwich and Sheffield are through to the next round they leave behind ten unlucky bidders, although several have already said what a valuable exercise it has been in forming, like Liverpool, networks that didn’t previously exist.

Another, perhaps obvious, link takes us back to Wavertree.

Regional cities with regional accents thinking about how regional culture will have a regional impact. Let’s hope the point is not missed in Walton.

By lunchtime, with one column scrapped and another planned, a short-list announced and a quick Radio 4 interview about how Brookside apparently helped make Greek tragedies more popular, I thought things were back on track.

Then another Scouse twist. On the front page of our very own Liverpool Echo was a story about the Museum of Liverpool which obviously caught my eye.

It had all the hallmarks of a good story. £750k of public money paid out to a commercial property developer.

Well, yes, but the unfortunate problem is that if you want to build anywhere in a city, especially in a complex historical area like the Pier Head, you will encounter, well, complex and historical problems. This was one of them.

I’ll actually come back to it next week when I have more space, but it basically boils down to this: £750k brought in £72m and delivered the museum, on time and on budget.

Now that really is a good story. And that’s why I love being a Scouser. Always a twist to every tale.

PS: The final round of the City of Culture process should see the short-listed cities present their case to the Advisory Panel: in Liverpool, not London as planned.

Think it had something to do with my regional accent. And, perhaps, understanding where other regional cities would rather be?