The weather can surprise you in Liverpool, it can be freezing in some parts of the country, it can be downright torrential and heartbreaking in others and yet as a city that straddles arguably one of the two famous and iconic rivers in the country, the sheer mildness at times of the climate is enough to make you believe that perhaps that someone does truly watch over the city. Looking up above the line that inhabits the view from one of the coffee shops in the city centre, the image of a overgrown red and white costumed seasonal house breaker is caught scaling the outside of the Radio City Tower, one foot perilously close to being put through the roof of the Playhouse Theatre, the other grasping to get a firm grip and perhaps survey with greater clarity all those who have been good and naughty during the year.