John Burke's a-Musings

25 May 2012. After we left Miletus we motored for a short while admiring the rain before arriving at Didyma. Here are the remains of a mass...

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

A sad week. On Monday after a period of looking and acting a bit off Tigger, our female cat seemed to be having problems standing up. We to...

Several weeks of travelling about and being busy at weekends have left me with little time for updating the blog lately. However, here's...

Whilst Edward and John tried to give some semblance of knowing what was going on, Tigger had totally failed to grasp the concept of Mario Ka...

Tuesday 28 May 1998. In the previous entry Fran and I visited the S.S. Great Britain in Bristol Docks. The well-known saying that is the ti...

Saturday, 21 August 2010. The coach leaves St John's Basilica and takes us to a small village called Sirince, pronounced Seh-RIN-jay . ...

No, not for the cat... For me. Tigger has had a urinary tract problem. It started last year around this time and she was really bad then -...

Yuck! I've got the sneezes. Don't actually think it's a cold as I don't feel ill. Not Swine Flu 'cos there's no g...

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...

We've spent the afternoon at an open day of a Cat Sanctuary in St Annes that we have supported for a while. David and Jeannie first told...

I'm up in Stirling in Scotland at the moment, ready to deliver a Change Management workshop tomorrow. It's a bit muggy but thankfull...

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...

Monday, 4 May 2009. We are sailing through a number of Croatian islands towards Korčula. There's some wonderful scenery, set into th...