John Burke's a-Musings

Monday 20 May 2013. The Thomson Dream heads gently towards the berth at Ajaccio, Corsica. We watched from the Promenade Deck until we we...

Sunday 19 May 2013. This was to be a day at sea whilst the Thomson Dream sailed from Palma, Majorca to Ajaccio in Corsica. We had plann...

Phew! What a night! This event (and the marquee) has got so big now that we had a real challenge filling the place with sound. The soft s...

Saturday 18 May 2013. We had our evening meal in the Orion Restaurant on Deck 4. This was huge (and will be shown in a later entry). Then ...

Saturday 18 May we were up at some awful time in the morning to pick up David and Jeannie and head to Manchester Airport. This would be a...

The other day I introduced my great-uncle Percy Alston. He owned and ran a photographic shop on Spotland Road in Rochdale in the 1960s. ...

Today we played at Witton Park in Blackburn. I think it would be true to say that the weather could have been kinder! But we managed to at...

Introducing my Great Uncle and Aunt. Auntie Elsie was my paternal Grandmother's sister. Her husband Percy was a sub-mariner during Wor...

This week included a trip to Wales for work, starting on Tuesday evening as I arrived in Aberystwyth on the west coast. It must have been...

I've been looking for a chance to take this photograph for a while. This is Debenhams in Blackpool on the corner of Albert Road and C...

On Friday we played at the Elgin Hotel, Blackpool for a luncheon gathering of ex British Gas staff. This was the third time we have playe...

Friday 5 April 2013. We were booked to play at a surprise birthday party. Surprise birthday parties can be a risky thing to accept booki...

A set of photographs from Saturday 30 March of the current construction on and adjacent to Talbot Road. This is the area being described as...

Saturday 23 March 2013. Friday was just a warm up, a chance for a bit of a jam session. Tonight we had a few more acts and a tight and fix...