John Burke's a-Musings

I've moved from Newcastle to Edinburgh and am now in the middle of two workshops that we are running for the JISC Regional Support Centr...

Yippee! At last I've managed to find a solution to a really niggling problem. When I got the new computer it had Windows Vista and as w...

It's been the negatives of 1991 that have been going through the scanner this week. Most of the photos, of course, wouldn't be of i...

I said in a previous entry that Wycoller still had something to show us. Wycoller Hall is a ruinous shell that only hints at the building i...

Blackpool actually saw some snow the other day! It snowed big flakes and everything! For ten minutes! Wow... It didn't result in this...

What an irreverant title for a blog entry covering a character who has become a favourite nursery rhyme but who existed in real life and obv...

There's something about steam trains that is guaranteed to quicken the hearts of small boys from four to ninety four. My photographs tod...

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 ...

Finally getting around to showing you the other bridges of Wycoller (see previous entry ). This is the Clapper Bridge. Made up of two l...

4 May 1998. We had gone for a run out to Wycoller on the border of Bronte Country close to the boundary between Lancashire and Yorkshire. T...

Horrible isn't it? For most of us it would have been the first day back at work yesterday after Christmas and straight away we're b...

The photos today are from 9 April 1998 and we were visiting Manchester. We came originally from Rochdale so Manchester, being the nearest la...

Negatives from this event came to the top of the scanning pile over the Christmas period so I thought I'd share a few with you here. ...

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...

Welcome to 2009 and a new layout for photos embedded in the blog. The majority of new PCs and laptops these days seem to have widescreen mon...

I've not added many photos to the Flickr account over the last few days as I've been scanning mainly family type photos. Such as th...

I watched the repeat of James May's Top Toys on BBC2 on Sunday and thoroughly enjoyed it. Apart from the fact that he had come up wit...

Monday 14 August 2000. We were on a coach holiday with Leger and were touring the Austrian Tyrol. On this particular day we spent the morni...

Loony pressies are something of a tradition at Castle Burke... Mind you... these are quite tasteful don't you think? So what did you g...