What were you doing at 11.30 on Friday night?
I bet you weren't marginally merry and singing along to Lily the Pink while John Gorman made up rude lyrics.
That's where I found myself, at the 20th anniversary Scouseology awards over at the Crowne Plaza.
There was a pretty good turn out for this annual "slebby" extravaganza - as well as Mr Gorman and fellow Scaffolder Mike McCartney (Roger McGough couldn't be there), the event was attended by Doddy, Ricky Tomlinson, Murph and Dan from the Wombats - Norwegian Tord was absent for some reason, Jenny Ellison, a pink suited Herbert the hairdresser, a ringletted Cathy Tyson, Vasily Petrenko, Dean Sullivan, Pauline Daniels, Pete Price and the legendary Dave Hickson who received a standing ovation when he won the sports award.
(Jenny Ellison and Pete Price)
Phil and Alexis Redmond, who were on my table, rolled up in time for the cheese course and for Phil to win the culture title - he walked to the stage to the sounds of Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero"......
I was also sitting with Cathy Tyson who has been involved in a whole slew of events so far this year - I seem to bump into her nearly every fortnight, or so it seems. She won the "international" award.
There were also two big announcements on the evening.
The first is that Merseytravel has commissioned a bronze statue of Ken Dodd to stand in Lime Street Station.
Rather bizarrely though, it's not simply Doddy - he's going to be sculpted for posterilty with Battling Bessie Braddock. I wonder in what stance? Doddy tickling her backside with a feather duster and Bessie giving him a clout with her handbag?
It's a rather odd pairing so I wait to see how sculptor Tom Murphy tackles it.......
The second announcement is that the Scaffold are to re-record and re-release Lily the Pink, 40 years after the original made number one, for charity - the Lily Centre, Linda McCartney Centre (apparently on Paul's suggestion) and the Pink Ribbon Campaign.
It will be released on the anniversary of Mary McCartney's death in 1956 (October 31) and the group hope to have famous people sing alternative verses. Mike wouldn't be drawn on whether "our kid" will be one, but the original single featured Reggie Dwight and had a little help from Abbey Road's "Teaboy Tim" Rice.
Mike had brought the original bottle of Lydia Pinkham's vegetable compound with him that inspired the song. It looked pretty disgusting stuff so I wasn't surprised to see it looked untouched in 40 odd years.
(Mike, me and Lydia Pinkham's "medicinal compound")
One thing happened that proved to me Liverpool is really a big village.
At dinner I was also sitting with Marcia Hughes from the BBC and her husband Graham. It turns out Marcia is the best friend of our Magaldi James Waud's mum, and has "known him since before he was born".
Not only that but James's nan Margaret was actually AT Scouseology - I went to have a chat with her. It turns out James was supposed to be in BOST's Scarlet Pimpernel which opens at the Empire on May 14, but obviously can't do that AND rehearse in London for Evita.
But apparently he's been working with his replacement every night until about 11pm to make sure he is OK. Bless!
