John Burke's a-Musings

10 October 1981. A nice man did something that no one would do today. He allowed me to go into the tram sheds on Rigby Road Blackpool for ...

The last entry of the 4 October 1981 Lake District set. We had ended the day at Ambleside and before we set off back we watched the sun d...

Ooh, here's a bit of excitement! Creeping Bentgrass will be the live studio band on the radio programme Saturday Brunch broadcast betwe...

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...

The last entry showed England's Lake District through a veil of rain. Probably, it has to be said, the most common view to be had of th...

Remember when petrol was so cheap that you could take the family out at weekend just for the joy of a drive in the country? Recent governme...

Last night Miss Franny and I visited a fairly local part of the world that I'm not totally familiar with - Altrincham. Despite the spel...

A couple of gig reports. Fran hadn't picked her camera up for the first one but yesterday David gave me a disk of photos taken by Jeann...

The Ladies-Over-The-Water have been scoffing at my precious inch of snow (now almost totally gone) and sending photos of their collection th...

Whilst Edward and John tried to give some semblance of knowing what was going on, Tigger had totally failed to grasp the concept of Mario Ka...

Cor! Snow is normally an event in Blackpool. Just every now and then we get some. I used to reckon about every six years but we had some ...

It's not too often we get the white stuff in Blackpool but today threw a bit at us! Early morning in the town centre. This is the (fair...

A nice story going the rounds about a disgruntled worker getting revenge on the Harrods store. Apparently the chap barricaded himself in the...

Well actually it's just about all gone. I've spent the last two days in Newcastle. There was snow on the way - a few isolated drift...

Amanda, one of the infamous Ladies-Over-The-Water, has sent photos of an accident that happened in South Africa. Luckily it seems not to ha...

It's a sobering thing to walk round a museum and find loads of things that you remember and that some of them are from what you consider...