Half-Life

We were in Liverpool this weekend. A woman dragged her partner to the other side of a sign post and exclaimed "Ooooh - The Cavern - Where the Beatles Live" - which is pretty-much an accurate description of the zoological attraction which is the Cavern Quarter these days. Of course there are only two of them left now, occasionally popping their heads out of their burrows to exclaim "Peace and Love" or to scan the horizon for the remains of the majestic herds of Unidexters that used to wander across the plains of downtown Scouseland. It's sad to see them now, bedraggled and grey when we all remember them in their heyday, scurrying over Europe and even America, with that wonderful courting behaviour of the shaking head. Happy days. Long gone now of course. We looked for them on Saturday but the weather seems to be keeping them indoors at the moment.