John Burke's a-Musings

Met up with several friends at the Shrewsbury charity gig , but one in particular - Hayley Easthope - has given me lots of postcards in the...

No... not anything to do with the Siege of Mafeking, or shift work or massage parlours... After 3 days of hell, the midge bites sustained...

I've been away in Newcastle since yesterday afternoon and tonight came back to find Jess had been giving Fran a somewhat "interesti...

I've got up to September 1982 in my scanning of my old black and white negatives. This week I came across a number of photos that I took...

8 August 2006. The day started really early. But the scenery as the Island Star sailed into the Italian port of La Spezia was well worth i...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011. The Thomson Destiny docks in the French naval port of Toulon and we have booked an excursion out to two different res...

Oho! The scanning of my old negatives has moved on a pace! We're now into 1982! On the 1st of April that year I was taking photos of ...

Amanda, one of the infamous Ladies-Over-The-Water, has sent photos of an accident that happened in South Africa. Luckily it seems not to ha...

The fourth entry in this series of car memories and first we'll deal with the only one in this entry that not only isn't a Ford, but...

More from the now-vanished Nostalgia web site. My very earliest memory is of an incident that happened when I was two. We had moved from liv...

Last night we played a Steam Fair in Wharles, which is an area out in the Fylde countryside between Kirkham and the M55 motorway. It was one...

Sunday 25 April 2010. The Ocean Village docked at Limassol in Cyprus and we had a lazy start to the day, waiting until all the excursions ...

This week has been a train week. Monday down and up to London and back. Tuesday down to Plymouth. Now that is a train journey. From Bla...

Now my regular viewers will know that I seldom moan about my lot in life and try to see the funny side even when strangers throw food all ov...

I'm in disgrace... Not because I've been away from home for two days... I've been in Newcastle for a planning meeting with coll...

Poor Fran. She had a bit of a testing day yesterday whilst I was "enjoying" myself in London for work. Every year around this tim...

Saturday, 2 May 2009. The coach arrived in Cavtat and we got out en masse, stretched our legs, wandered into the road and generally annoyed...