Duck football gym
At the Albert Dock after first edition yesterday. The people who run the 'Duck' tours unveiled a third vehicle - sponsored by the Echo.
The Duck tours are tremendous fun - a mixture of land and water visits to places of interest in the city. These vehicles were used by the Americans in World War II to land troops and its wonderful to see them in action. To buy modern, purpose-built vehicles capable of operating on land or water would be cost prohibitive, so this is a true rarity.
Great to see a business on the up-and-up and fair play to Merseyside Special Investment Fund for backing it with hard cash.
Met with senior staff in the afternoon to talk about how we handle sporrt on Liverpoolecho.co.uk. The answer was 'differently from now on'. We have a vast reservoir of sports material that we can add to, exploit and promote far better on the web. Too easy just to talk about football, a couple of the team, particularly the female members made the point that there's more to it than LFC and EFC.
I'd be grateful if anyone reading this who has views on what makes great on-line sports content would post me a comment.
Ate Paula (My PA)'s salad at lunchtime as she was going to the dentist. Tuna, pasta and low calorie dressing. Less than 2% fat and 180 calories in all.
Three-mile run at the gym then weights. Home. Venison burger and salad, grapes, yoghurt. Two glasses of wine.
My mate Bob arrived then Lynne's mate Carole. Two more glasses of wine. Still within overall calorie limit for day but more wine than I intended.
Shootings in the city centre. Big story breaking?
Chris Brereton wrote...
Alistair, I am an ex-workie/shift reporter from 2004 so firstly pass on my hellos to Andy Edwards, Alison, Joe Riley, Mr O'Keefe et al!
Secondly, on the sports front, in my opinion Rugby Union gets overlooked.
I used to play for Mossley Hill RUFC when based in Liverpool and the standard of the leagues, the amount of youngsters taking part and the general benefits of playing all seem (to me anyhow) to slip under the radar.
It is a massively thriving grass roots game on both sides of the water yet it doesn't seem to warrant much attention.
Only my thoughts, keep up the great work on a great paper.
Chris Brereton
Ps And good luck with the diet!
Posted by: Chris Brereton | October 13, 2006 10:10 AM