John Burke's a-Musings

The year 2000 dawns. Everybody was raving about a new millenium. I was trying to say it was the final year of the old millenium. Nobody l...

Saturday 14 February 2015. We are on Roatan, an island some 30 miles off Honduras in the Caribbean. As previously described we have looked...

I can't remember a winter where we had so much snow in Blackpool on so many different occasions before since we moved here in the mid 19...

By heck, 2010 has started with some cold weather! Fran was on a 10:00pm finish last night and when I set off to pick her up it was already ...

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...

Sunday 24 August 2008 was a day at sea on the Island Star. We sat sheltered under the canopy of the upper sundeck and the only incident of ...

A landmark day! According to the statistics on my Flickr account, this photo passed the 1000 views milestone today. The photo was taken in S...