John Burke's a-Musings

I'm sorry folks, it must look as though I'm being a bit tardy here, but the PC has been replaced and I'm in the midst of taking ...

Alas and alack I'm having one of those periods where inanimate objects are out to get me. At the moment it's my home PC which has gi...

Keith Duckitt of the Further Education Funding Council ( FEFC ) looks on as the Chairman of the National College Management Information Serv...

We were in Blackpool this morning to meet up with David and Jeannie for breakfast and afterwards whilst the ladies went off shopping, David ...

Another of the Dansette style record players I've had in various states of disrepair! This example came from the antiques and collec...

After leaving Wookey Hole on 23 February 1996 we drove to Cheddar and down the famous gorge. Come on, keep up... what do you want? All the...

Back in the early 1980s we used to regularly visit the steam railway museum at Steamtown, Carnforth. They had a shed full of old locomotives...

After the entry on the Grossglockner Glacier someone said they wanted to see the road and its hairpin bends so here are a couple of shots s...

I'm in Newcastle again at the moment, spending a few days working in the office. I didn't bring my camera with me so I thought I...

As we were talking about Austria a couple of posts ago and seeing as my web pages on our Austrian holidays have gone bye bye, I was nudged t...

Another example of all things bizarre... Just got off the phone talking to my uncle. They've just had an advert for a "Do-It-Yours...

Here's an entry to tie together a couple of previous themes. We've had a few entries, with more to come, of our 1995 London Tri...

Our friends Chrissie and Alex visited Austria this year and made a trip to Krimml Falls. Chrissie has uploaded some of her photos to Flickr...

Amongst all the old photos being scanned are some older photographs from both sides of the family. This is one from Fran's side. Her da...

There's a gorgeous little village close to Cheddar Gorge in Somerset. Axbridge village centre is in the form of a market square - or mar...

Someone was very quick off the mark this morning. As I uploaded this photograph of Admiralty Arch at night up to Flickr, someone had viewed...

The scanner has been busy remembering our first London weekend, way back in 1995. We had been to London before but only once and that was a ...

Anyone who remembers the Yoghurt Saga will know that the ladies in the Library at work lead somewhat adventurous lives. But this has to tak...

This week Blackpool Pleasure Beach announced that free entry to the park will soon be a thing of the past. They plan to introduce a £20 admi...

Friday 23 September 1996 After leaving Corfe Castle on the previous day we decided to head northwards a little so as to have a more leisure...