I sold my first hat on Etsy! Hooray! I was sooooooo pleased, and hopefully this will be the start of many. I should make a similar hat to list soon - this was like the hats that did well on ebay a couple of years ago.
Yesterday afternoon we got a phone call from a friend asking if we wanted to go on a tour of one of the Mersey Road tunnels in the evening. We had seen this advertised in the paper but failed to book places on it - turned out they had lots of demand and you needed to book a month or so in advance. Anyway, our friends had booked 4 tickets, but 2 of the people were no longer able to go, so they asked us. It was a huge rush to get there in time, and we had to walk very fast, but we made it there in 55mins for 5:30 (just!).
The guide told us a bit about the history of the tunnel, it was built back in 1925, and mostly uses all the original stuff. Apparently it is a lot better than the other Mersey Tunnel that was built more recently! When it was built it was the largest (by volume I think) underwater tunnel in the World, that stayed the case until the 1990s.
We got taken through a lot of the ventilation bits - huge fans, and into part of the tunnel. The ventilation is so impressive that the air is cleaner in the tunnel than parts of the city center - partly cos the tunnel fumes probably end up in the city center!
All in all it was pretty fun, and interesting to see how well 1920s engineering has lasted. Hopefully our 1880's house was built with as much care :)
My hip seems to have survived the walk there and back and all the stairs on the tour which is great. I am undecided whether to run today or not though.
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