I spent Saturday lunchtime on Crosby beach.
The sun was out, the ice cream vans were doing a brisk business, and the sands were packed with people out to see the Gormley statues.
I was with two old university friends who had made a special trip up from the Midlands to see the iron men before their imminent departure.
Whether Gormley supporters putting in a new planning application for an extension until March will work is a matter of debate.
Nothing is certain with Sefton council.
And now councillors may feel they have been pushed into a corner.
A change of mind on Another Place is likely to be viewed as a capitulation to public pressure and possibly an unacceptable loss of face.
We have become so used to the government blowing in the wind of public opinion that we expect all authorities to be the same.
Will Sefton budge?
I said in the paper last week that they had had a chance to make a brave decision, and they could still do that.
Meanwhile, the crowds will still descend on Crosby - councillors would be well advised to pop down there too and meet the people voting with their feet.
