John Burke's a-Musings

On Christmas Day, let me extend warmest Christmas wishes for a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year 2017 to all my readers. Let me sha...

Following our brilliant night listening to André Rieu in Leeds on Friday, we were extremely sorry to hear that a member of the orchestra had...

On Friday we set off over the M62 to Leeds to see the famous violinist from Maastricht, André Rieu perform with his orchestra, The Johann S...

Last night we played for a Masonic Dinner and Social Evening and had a most fabulous evening. There is a dinner first and we set up and l...

One for the steam railway enthusiasts. I'm still scanning old photos and in this article we're back to black and white and a day ou...

Yesterday we had a day out to Bury Market. It's a long, long (very long) time since we last went to Bury and the size of the market the...

A couple of weeks ago I had occasion to move my files of film negatives and, to my dismay, as soon as I picked up a file half of the pages s...