John Burke's a-Musings

We recently suffered a death in the family and it's fallen to my brother and I to sort out the estate and possessions. My Uncle Geoff h...

After the success of the oil pastel larger scale painting of Villefranche on the French Riviera, I felt curious as to how it would be to use...

Another look at the autograph book from 1915-1919 bought at a book fair in February 2017. There are more blank pages than used ones and it c...

Last night we were out on the edge of the Trough of Bowland - a beautiful area of countryside, forests and rivers in Lancashire. We were ...

A second look inside the old autograph book, picked up at a book fair recently. I mentioned the last time that I thought this book had be...

Yes I know I've been a bit (a bit??? ) quiet on the blog this year. But this may go some way as to explain why. For some time I've...

Yesterday we had a motor up to Hornby, north Lancashire to a book fair that was being held in the Hornby Institute. A lovely place Hornby, ...

Currently I've been going through lots of enprint wallets, finding negatives from the 1990s that have either never been scanned before, ...