Celebrating sparks of ingenuity

Lightbulb Moments in the VG&M's newly reopened Tate Hall | The Reader's Christmas programme | Liverpool Irish Festival

The programme for this year’s Liverpool Irish Festival dropped into my inbox this week, which seemed fitting because on the same day I had pointed out the Wellington Rooms on Mount Pleasant to my daughter and tried to explain what it was like learning to play fiddle there as a young child in the 1980s.