John Burke's a-Musings

I'm told there are still a few tickets left for our show at Catforth Village Hall on Saturday 5 March 2011. Starting at 7:30pm through u...

Here's another of the postcards I bought last week at the antiques place. This was posted from Southend-on-Sea on 21 August 1939 and sho...

This morning we were the studio band for Preston FM's Saturday Brunch , a light-hearted music and chat magazine-style radio programme. W...

It's been something of a trying week... At some point on Sunday I became aware of a twinge, a soreness low down in the abdomen. Admitte...

I'm soon going to have to move onto something else. The black and white negatives I took in 1981 are almost inexhaustible! I'm int...

On Tuesday night I arrived in Lincoln, prior to running some Project Management training at the university. After checking into the hotel I...

Saturday 10 October 1981. Blackpool was experiencing some rather heavy gales. And that means hefty ! Mostly when the weather forecasters ...

Taken during October 1981 here are a few photos of Blackpool Pleasure Beach at night. This shows one of the very early rides of the Pleas...

This year we have been booked for 3 days at the Garstang Arts & Music Festival. You'll be able to see us on Saturday 20 August, Satu...

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...