John Burke's a-Musings

Well we've been playing Myerscough College's open day events for years but yesterday was the wettest one since our very first in 20...

Last night we were out in the beautiful countryside of the Trough of Bowland, playing at the wedding of Lee and Gail in Oakenclough. We were...

Yesterday was a stress test. Part of the ongoing investigation into my heart attack. I wondered whether they wired you up to a monitor and t...

Here's a first! Updating the blog from a moving train! I'm on my way to Edinburgh and so far there seems to have been hordes of rug...

My God, it's like buses! No blog entries for ages and now three at once! So, I'm just in the mood I guess. If I've not been wri...

As part of the new slower more restful me, I was sitting snugly in a deserted railway carriage (just me and a young chap opposite shouting ...

Ah yes, catch up time again! Well it's been a funny old few months really and other things have contrived to become more important. Hea...

A couple of months ago I told you about a photo of two penguins that had passed the 1000 views milestone on my Flickr account . Well for so...

I've turned comment moderation on now to cut down the spam appearing on comments. You can still comment on the posts and I'd encoura...

I got into the office today after a full week on the road to find this attached to my coffee mug. " Grow Hair Fast! " it says and ...

I love this postcard of Regent Street, London. It's a great photograph for one, which shows a snapshot of the past with many bits of ...

Sounds as though it should be a song by Lindisfarne or some similar group, but I found this small roadside memorial a long way from Newcastl...

No, I'm not being rude. I'm at a conference for a couple of days and the delegates in the first session of the day were shown a film...

I've noticed a crop of comments on some blog entries recently that say almost nothing other than " See here " or " Click ...

We have a new song on the Billy Fury web site for the month of April. Picture of You was a smash hit for Joe Brown in the early 1960s and ...

I occasionally watch programmes with names like "Great Railway Journeys" and wonder why can I not have some of those? Today I had ...

Oh dear, another week has gone by! Well, I've found enough to keep me busy without venting my spleen at anyone or feeling the urge to ra...

I love this! On the back of this postcard it says "This is a real photograph." In actual fact it's a bit of a pre-digital ma...

I thought it might be fun to choose a photo at random from the many thousands I've taken over the years and see if I could dredge up a m...

A hand-coloured postcard showing a decidedly ancient lorry is my offering for today. The caption reads " Strand Street and The Weavers...