John Burke's a-Musings

Wednesday 22 June 2005. Another trip for work and this time the car hire firm have dropped off a Nissan X-Trail. Not that work were so ext...

A couple of weeks ago I was celebrating the end of a long-running task - the scanning of some 700 postcards from the Hayley Easthope collec...

January's a quiet month for photographers so that sort of leads to a quietish month on the blog as well. I can't let 78rpm records ...

This week included a trip to Wales for work, starting on Tuesday evening as I arrived in Aberystwyth on the west coast. It must have been...

So you already know where I've been this week so why am I writing? Well, having not updated this blog for a week it's nice to be ab...

The first stage of experiencing deja vu is to have an experience. In my case it was starting the week with a day north of Lancaster followe...

Apart from Wednesday and Thursday when I've been at a conference, I've been off work this week and on Tuesday we had a drive down in...

There was an antiques fair on in the Winter Gardens today and I nipped in to have a look, coming away with a whole bag full of 15 books for ...

Hey ho, Sunday night and I've just driven 4 hours to get to Cardiff, where I have a day's business tomorrow. Weather wasn't too ...

I just couldn't resist it! Having had a twice weekly fix of the HBO/BBC version of Rome, I found myself within spitting distance of Caer...

I'm just back from a two-day trip to Wales, land of unpronounceable place names and bestest hospitality! Clive and I were joined by Mari...

I've been in Wales this week, going down on Monday afternoon in some rather abysmal weather, but the view from the hotel car park yester...