

I had scrawled ‘buy a poppy’ onto my mental to-do-list sometime last week, having found a lack of availability while out and about during the working days, so made sure I snapped one up. On every corner of the main shopping streets, someone could be found carrying a box or manning a small stall filled with poppies. This weekend however, things were slightly less extravagant but equally as attention-grabbing. Quite often you’ll find a great number of people dressed as insects (albeit it very furry and fluffy looking ones), superheroes or not really dressed much at all, shaking collection buckets for charities. Buskers, breakdancers, various living statues…they’re all there to amuse and sometimes bemuse. Going into the heart of Liverpool city centre on any randomly selected Saturday afternoon, you will come across not just masses of crowds out enjoying their free time but many interesting and entertaining individuals lining the streets.
