John Burke's a-Musings

I've been away in Newcastle since yesterday afternoon and tonight came back to find Jess had been giving Fran a somewhat "interesti...

Late on Sunday afternoon the storm clouds broke for a moment and the sun actually came out. I pushed my way through the throngs of people s...

Back in 1982 a regular ride out was to the tiny port of Glasson Dock. Getting up the River Lune to the docks at Lancaster was extremely diff...

Whilst Blackpool Illuminations are shining out a mile and a bit away from my house, I'm also being reminded of the display from 1982 whi...

Miss Franny and I had a ride out to GB Antiques at Lancaster this afternoon and wandered round in search of old postcards. I was really in ...

This week I've been travelling about for work. Nothing particularly new in that but I've been to a couple of places I've not be...

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Last night saw Creeping Bentgrass on stage at Staining Village Hall. This was a night we had arranged ourselves and we had invited family, f...

We'd been saying for weeks that we'd like to go to see the fireworks on a Friday night in Blackpool. For three weeks they have been...

A sad week. On Monday after a period of looking and acting a bit off Tigger, our female cat seemed to be having problems standing up. We to...

I've got up to September 1982 in my scanning of my old black and white negatives. This week I came across a number of photos that I took...

In Whittingham near Preston is an old farmhouse with a rather strange object over the door. It is the decaying remains of a cow's rib...

Creeping Bentgrass were out and about this weekend. We started on Friday night at the Longshaw Sports & Social Club in Blackburn. This ...

Now I can't remember the exact date, but this is the tale of a day in the Lake District in August 1982. This particular day started u...