John Burke's a-Musings

Monday 24 September 2018. We sail into Venice. We leave the ship directly into a covered walkway leading into the Italian dockside customs....

My photo album of Blackpool photos still has a few pages left to show. Today we are down South Shore, towards the Pleasure Beach. It...

I got caught up in the flooding this week, though not to any great state of discomfort. It did mean I had to spend an extra night away thou...

...and the following morning I ventured out with the camera to take photos of the aftermath. This was early February 1983 and Blackpool had...

4 May 1998. We had gone for a run out to Wycoller on the border of Bronte Country close to the boundary between Lancashire and Yorkshire. T...

Were we lucky or what?!? At 6:30am this morning the Heavens opened and as the radio news came on half an hour later it was all about floods...

It was early morning. About the time when conciousness struggles to overcome unconciousness even though the radio alarm has started a rathe...

Ooh, a bit of excitement at the office today. I live in Blackpool and work for the University of Northumbria so I rent a room at a local col...

No, in this case I'm not referring to the current weather, but rather to the subject of a few photos of Blackpool I've taken in past...

An email came in today from John Hitchon: " Hi John. As a sandgrown'n myself I have found your website very interesting, thinking ...

Phew! I was in Sheffield yesterday at the AoC NILTA CIS Conference for managers of College Information Services. If you are reading this fr...