Journal ~ Geese Over Liverpool
Journal
Geese Over Liverpool Docks
Whenever I am on the Liverpool Waterfront, it thrills me, of an evening or in the early morning, to hear the Canada Geese in the Dock Basin far, far below me. Liverpool Docks provide these beautiful birds safe haven.
Many a morning, have I been awoken by the fierce beating of many pairs of wings as more than a dozen suddenly decide that they will take to the air.
Because my bedroom had skylights, I would sometimes catch a glimpse of one flying just above the contour of the roof. It would happen in an instant, the seed of an aperture on a camera shutter; yet, what I saw was captured perfectly.
In Liverpool, we see these beautiful Birds whose clarion call is almost an echo of the mythical Liver Birds that stand aloft facing out to Sea and Inland and thereby having Liverpool’s safety and security.
We really rather like that!
28 February 2024
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The Royal Liver Building set against a black background is from a photograph take by me and which I then commissioned by payment the artist to produce this very fine design that hallmarks both websites and my work both as Kenneth Thomas Webb and in my author name as Ian Bradley Marshall
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
