John Burke's a-Musings

Last night we had the most excellent night out. We went to the Spring offering from GLOG - the Garstang Light Opera Group - who were stagin...

No, my speling hasnn't gon on the blinck - this is the River Wear at Sunderland. Or just outside Sunderland anyway. This was taken last...

I went a bit mad on Wednesday night and went for a walk to pick Fran (wife) up from work instead of driving there. Took the camera with me j...

Whilst at Durham at the event described below, I was asked for directions to Lancaster by a long-time colleague from Oaklands College. I st...

Yesterday I was at New College Durham at a joint LSC / JISC infoNet / CEL event: Leading a New College Build. New College Durham have comple...

It does you good every now and then to reflect back on where you came from and what led you to where you are now. Not that I'm a great o...

Ingrid's Spring Newsletter has just dropped through the letterbox today. It has some news of a few events coming up - seems some America...

After having been to see Blackpool's sea defence and Promenade widening works yesterday, today I thought we'd go and have a look at ...

It's turned unexpectedly sunny in Blackpool, so I dragged myself away from the computer and clipped the pedometer to my belt and forced ...

The past couple of nights have been a bit frantic - I got my daily email from actress Ingrid Pitt's Yahoo Group to find she was expecti...

Well I'm not sure where all the promised sunshine and warm weather went to but it wasn't Blackpool this weekend! We decided we we...

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...

I've uploaded a few more tram photos to my Flickr site. (no longer active) I know that the Blackpool trams generate quite a lot of inter...

After having one of my own music tracks featured on http://www.billyfury.com last month, this month sees the band's cover of Billy'...

Hazel O'Connor and Ingrid Pitt Actress and singer, Hazel O'Connor (the film "Breaking Glass" gave her punk rock status and...

Last night Fran and I went with David and Jeannie to see "That'll Be The Day", a rock and roll extravaganza of a show at the B...

I've added an album of photos of myself with some celebrity friends to my Picasa site. Bond Girls Caroline Munro, Martine Beswick, Tan...

After leaving the AoC NILTA conference yesterday, I drove down to Taunton, where today I've delivered a session at an RSC seminar for So...

I'm currently at the AoC NILTA Conference in Leeds and it has been an excellent conference this year. This has been the 19th NILTA Conf...

Cats I mean... This normally spells trouble. I got up this morning, despatched to make the coffee as Fran was in work for 7:00am and the c...