John Burke's a-Musings

Over the Christmas break we got out of the house for a bit and visited one of the local antiques warehouses, G.B. Antiques in Lancaster. I ...

On Friday 27 December we were out in wildest Darwen. It was the weather that was wild, not the inhabitants, I hasten to add. We were blown...

On the 19th December we picked up my Mum and drove over to Leeds where we had tickets to see Andre Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra. ...

A good afternoon yesterday, playing at a house party for an engagement. Luckily it was a big house! Many thanks to our hosts and best wi...

The vast majority of my sketching is done on a A5 sketch pad. This is held within a little leather folder, a souvenir of a work conference ...

Over a couple of entries I've shown the first sketches I did in the 1990s. These were all of locations in the UK, but by the end of the...

Sunday 1 December 2013. We left the Museum of London, happy and with a high wow factor after our morning searching its exhibits. We made...

Task for today... Miss Franny is a bit of a dab hand when it comes to crafting. Cards, shopping bags, gift bags and all that. Today thoug...

Sunday 24 November 2013. We left the hotel after breakfast and hopped onto a London bus heading for St Paul's. We had decided to have ...