John Burke's a-Musings

Thursday 22 August 2002. We visit Sandringham, the royal house in the year of the Queen's Golden Jubilee. After the last few days th...

Currently I've been going through lots of enprint wallets, finding negatives from the 1990s that have either never been scanned before, ...

Sunday 24 May 2015. Once we had left Glastonbury it was raining and we decided to try our luck at Cheddar, knowing that if it came fine we ...

A second look at 78 rpm record sleeves provided (sold!) by record shops. (If you missed the first one then it can be viewed here: Record Sh...

Over the Christmas break we got out of the house for a bit and visited one of the local antiques warehouses, G.B. Antiques in Lancaster. I ...

Do boys, I wonder, in these days of computers and Nintendo, still go through a phase of collecting stamps? My old stamp albums are still kno...

I used to make a point of buying postcards everywhere we went and have quite a large collection, but recently I realised the bits of the hou...

How do we amass such a load of stuff??? I sometimes think I have some sort of unknown magnetism so that junk of all sorts is irresistably dr...