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John Burke's a-Musings: October 2014
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Travel, holidays, nostalgia, curiosities and my home town of Blackpool - all with a helping of good humour. Sunday, 26 October 2014. Creeping Bentgrass Charity Gig For British Heart Foundation. Last Saturday, the 18th, we performed for the second of our own charity gigs of the year. Usually we do these every two years, but the response after the April one was such that we set about organising this one almost immediately. Posted by John Burke. Labels: british heart foundation. Tuesday, 21 October 2014.
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John Burke's a-Musings: Eamont Bridge
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Travel, holidays, nostalgia, curiosities and my home town of Blackpool - all with a helping of good humour. Friday, 8 May 2015. The Bank Holiday was the expected washout and this week in Blackpool, Tim Burton and Samuel L Jackson have been film making and turning the Promenade back to winter. The weather has done its best to show them every single sort of weather possible over the course of a few hours. I may have been a bit pedantic but I said she should put an apostrophe in the word " goats. I have to ...
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John Burke's a-Musings: November 2014
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Travel, holidays, nostalgia, curiosities and my home town of Blackpool - all with a helping of good humour. Saturday, 29 November 2014. The Perks Family Photo Tin 2. And would probably add, ". and bury it in the back garden! One thing has become clear - there's a lot more photos than I thought there would be! Let's have a look at a few. This time most of them will be folks I don't know - family, friends, colleagues or acquaintances? The photo is likely to have been taken in Rochdale. And here's Fran's mu...
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John Burke's a-Musings: February 2015
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Travel, holidays, nostalgia, curiosities and my home town of Blackpool - all with a helping of good humour. Tuesday, 24 February 2015. There have been a few days without an article I'm afraid. We were erm. researching(! For a new series of articles set around the Caribbean Sea! I'd like to finish off the London holiday articles before launching properly into this one but just as a taster, this shows where you can expect to go for a few days. We joined the Thomson Dream for a week at Montego Bay, Jamaica.
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John Burke's a-Musings: 2015 Reading No.2
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Travel, holidays, nostalgia, curiosities and my home town of Blackpool - all with a helping of good humour. Friday, 1 May 2015. 2015 Reading No.2. One of the things I miss, having retired from work, is the opportunity it gave me on many nights alone in hotel rooms to read. I've just finished my twelfth book of the year so far which extrapolates - if I manage to keep up this already poor rate of reading - a mere 36 books for the year. Tsk! I had been reaching over 60! An obnoxious family with a fortune bu...
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John Burke's a-Musings: Glasson Dock and The Stork at Condor Green
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Travel, holidays, nostalgia, curiosities and my home town of Blackpool - all with a helping of good humour. Wednesday, 22 April 2015. Glasson Dock and The Stork at Condor Green. The other week on my way back from viewing the remains of the Space Tower ride. At Morecambe, I stopped at a pub that I must have passed over a hundred times without ever stepping inside. The wrought iron figure of a stork with outspread wings sits now as it did then (the 1970s not the 1660s.) over the doorway to the pub. You wou...
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John Burke's a-Musings: Blackpool Pleasure Beach 1995
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Travel, holidays, nostalgia, curiosities and my home town of Blackpool - all with a helping of good humour. Tuesday, 28 April 2015. Blackpool Pleasure Beach 1995. Today a look at the Pleasure Beach at Blackpool in 1995. I think this was one of my last visits to the Pleasure Beach. It remained somewhere I kept meaning to go to again and then from 2009 they started charging admission and for me that was a huge mistake and the end of my desire to go. The most up to date ride with the oldest ride in front of...
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John Burke's a-Musings: September 2014
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Travel, holidays, nostalgia, curiosities and my home town of Blackpool - all with a helping of good humour. Tuesday, 30 September 2014. List Entry - Records That Have Touched Me. There's loads of tush on Facebook that I don't bother with, but today I was challenged by fellow guitarist, Joe Peden of The Persuaders, to come up with a list of ten songs that have touched me. Not the Top. Ten songs, because I would find that impossible and there are many more x10 that I could have chosen. I was only seven whe...
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John Burke's a-Musings: May 2014
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Travel, holidays, nostalgia, curiosities and my home town of Blackpool - all with a helping of good humour. Thursday, 29 May 2014. 2014 Reading Part 4. Time for a book update! Which means I've read another eight books of course. Once again there's a mixture of first reads and books that I've previously enjoyed. Somehow I never get round to reading books I've previously hated. The first one this time is another compilation of pulp fiction from the creator of Conan the Barbarian. The very first Sudden.
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John Burke's a-Musings: July 2014
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Travel, holidays, nostalgia, curiosities and my home town of Blackpool - all with a helping of good humour. Sunday, 27 July 2014. 2014 Reading Part 5. Another eight sets of pages perused and entertainment gained. The usual mix of old and new (to me) and a left-fielder that I saw by chance. I started out with this one, the third in the Cousins War. Series by Philippa Gregory. And now to the serious stuff. The Five go off on holiday (it was ever so.) and stay with (shock! I presume Enid Blyton. Must have o...
