Food for thought

May 6 2008 by Mr Brocklebank, Liverpool Daily Post

WHEN Liverpool’s best-loved genetically modified sculpture, Superlambanana, resided outside the blessed Sir Trevor Jones’s ships’ chandlers, JP Lamb, his art lover wife Lady Doreen ensured it always had a fresh coat of bright barnacle-resistant egg-yolk yellow paint.

Now it is a sickly pale yellow, as if unloved in the time of cholera. Is this a case of it being nobody’s banana?

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AT THE rehearsal for his Ecce "Thump" Cor Meum at Liverpool Cathedral, Paul McCartney felt the need for a little feeding of the physical besides the spiritual.

His request for a portion of chips was granted, but a second request for vinegar apparently proved harder to fulfil from the refectory.

Residents around the cathedral close had to search for the necessary condiments.

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SCOUSE Nous Award of the Week: city centre parking spaces are now so expensive that it’s worth persuading Liverpool planners that Dale Street’s last Georgian townhouse, Jamaica House, must be demolished to make way for private places.

Is this a case for Warren’s Warriors?

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STOP press: the late Derek Taylor, former Beatles press officer and Liverpool Daily Post & Echo journalist, is quoted in a press release touting a new contender for the mythical title of the "fifth Beatle" namely: London.

The Beatles’ London, the Ultimate Guide to over 400 Beatles’ sites in London, co-authored by Mark Lewisohn.

All news up here in the Capital of Culture, as on his last fateful visit to Liverpool, Ringo categorically told toppermost Beatle-ologist Peter Grant that there was "no fifth Beatle".

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FAREWELL then, to Hilary Clark, possibly Liverpool’s most glamorous Lady Mayoress who, along with her husband, Paul Clark, has brought a real touch of class to Liverpool’s 800th anniversary and Capital year.

Truly, the Jackie Kennedy of Liverpool Town Hall.

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FANCY that: Nigel Lee, Liverpool planning manager, guest speaker at the Architectural Review’s Designing for Liverpool conference at the Crowne Plaza, flicked an image on the screen and said: "This is me and Lady Doreen Jones on a weekend away in Barcelona. She’s the one with the nice hair."

He added that the council "had made some mistakes in the past. This one here’s a mistake and I’d drop this building tomorrow."

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CURIOSITY corner: How come city solicitor Rex Makin, who did so much to help found the LJMU Roscoe Citizenship lecture series, was not present at the two recent high-profile talks given by Senator George Mitchell and Lord Heseltine?