I’ve been quite skeptical about all this culture malarkey, but even I am getting excited by the goings on outside St Georges Hall, the Big Screens either side of the hall are huge, and I have never really seen so many people and so much equipment being put into one location.

And tonight I got to see them practicing the spinning people around on cranes which looked quite cool too. I think I am going to go to the opening event, after all it’s not every year that the city you live in is the European Capital of Culture