John Burke's a-Musings

Happy New Year to all my readers! According to the stats, on average the blog is read 200 times a day, that's a bit awesome from my poi...

The car hire firm dropped off a car I'd never seen before, when they delivered my works car last week. It turned out to be a Peugot Shar...

Ooh! A first today! I've been down to Birmingham Airport to meet up with a colleague from just this side of Welsh Wales so we could pu...

At last! I managed to get my hands on one of the new Mondeos from Ford this week. First time I've managed to drive a James Bond car - ...

Yesterday the hire car firm dropped one of these off for me. It's Vauxhall's replacement for the Vectra, the new Vauxhall Insignia. ...

Trogging round the sales today during a brief break from the tiling. Anything worth having has already gone from most shops but then this ge...

I thought it might be fun to show some of the albums I've collected over the years which are not exactly mainstream. I have a huge coll...

We've watched Extreme Dreams this week, (BBC2). Ben Fogle leads a team of ordinary folks to one of the most inaccessible places on Eart...

A while ago, you may remember I bumped into actor and director Mark Redfield in Manchester at the Festival of Fantastic Films . Mark is cur...

I see that filming for the 6th Harry Potter film has started in Laycock. I was close by in 2006 and went to have a look. The village in Wi...