John Burke's a-Musings

I meant to publish this one last Sunday... It was last Saturday when we went with David and Jeannie down to Birmingham to meet up with Caro...

Hi folks, remember me? I seem to have spent this week on the road. On the road, on the rails and in the air to be precise. I spent the fi...

On Thursday evening we heard the exciting news that we had become grandparents! Grace Margaret Statham weighed in at a mere 4lb 12oz, being ...

Last week saw me in Birmingham for much of the week for the Association of Colleges annual conference. It's an event populated by the m...

I've been struggling to find time to update the blog recently. Work is taking me around the country and I have a book project to work o...

...and the following morning I ventured out with the camera to take photos of the aftermath. This was early February 1983 and Blackpool had...

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...