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Kiwi Jack Lovelock smashes world mile record on 15 July 1933 Lovelock newspaper cutting, 1933 (Alexander Turnbull Library, MSX-2247-058) Jack Lovelock’s run at Princeton University broke Jules Ladoumegue’s record for the mile by 1.6 seconds. The race was dubbed the ‘greatest mile of all time’ by Time Magazine. The race was a feature event during the sixthContinue reading “Kiwi Lovelock smashed World Mile record in 1933”

Science Today If you were to ask law enforcement or the U.S. government, they’d tell you that marijuana is unsafe, addictive, and has no medical uses. Of course, any thinking person knows that’s a crock of you-know-what. And now, a new study has found that the controversial plant is 114 times less likely to harm you thanContinue reading “New Scientific Research Says Marijuana Is 114 Times Safer Than Drinking Alcohol”

Originally posted on My Life as an Artist (2):
‘We are always learning – there is a great joy to be had in not knowing it all.   It keeps the doors open for experimentation, and following the creative path.’     These sketches are in no particular order.    They were produced by some of those…

Originally posted on My Life as an Artist (2):
This post is made up of random thoughts, paintings and photographs.       Over the years I have painted countless watercolour portraits in many different countries.        In this post you will meet some of my friends from Wales. Rain over the Brecon Beacons –…

An incredible human story: https://4451df3a094f1a21d5c09718738ce6f3.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.htmlCulture Desk The Gay Marriages of a Nineteenth-Century Prison Ship By Jim Downs In 1842, a court in Lancaster, England, convicted a young lawyer, George Baxter Grundy, of forging payment, and promptly sent him to serve a fifteen-year sentence in Bermuda, “beyond the seas.” The British Empire was expanding rapidly and wasContinue reading “The Gay Marriages of a 19th Century Prison Ship…”

Search form S TOPIC Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior sunk in Auckland 10 July 1985 with the death of one person Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior (New Zealand Herald/newspix.co.nz) A crew member died when French secret agents mined the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior in Waitematā Harbour, Auckland.  The Rainbow Warrior had taken part in protests against French nuclear testing in theContinue reading “Rainbow Warrior sunk in Auckland”

Originally posted on My Life as an Artist (2):
Playing is the name of the game today.     For this image I  took a throw away sketch and added the little lambs….This is a good way to warm up and at the same to use old sketches.  For the lambs I used my sepia colour Tomboy…

Originally posted on My Life as an Artist (2):
We will take this beautiful Welsh Border Collie ‘Jen’ on our walk along the canal today.    Having enjoyed another delicious Welsh breakfast, we are now heading for the Monmouthshire/Brecon Canal. During the years that I lived in Crickhowell, each day I would walk across the Crickhowell bridge…