On This Day – Hadrian’s Wall in Northumbria — Have Bag, Will Travel

While the current travel restrictions are in place I have no new stories to post so what I thought that I would do is to go through my picture archives and see where I was on this day at any time in the last few travelling years. Relatively recently, on 30th June 2018 I was […]On …

Carl Reiner, beloved creator of ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show,’ dies at 98 — KTLA

Carl Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a “second banana” to Sid Caesar and rose to comedy’s front ranks as creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and straight man to Mel Brooks’ “2000 Year Old Man,” has died. He was 98. Reiner’s assistant Judy Nagy said he…Carl Reiner, …

Two-way education — Le Drake Noir

“I’m not young enough to know everything” *Oscar Wilde – irish poet and playwright* ….. “Young people believe old people are fools and old people know that young people are “ “The more we know the more we find out we don’t know“ It is said that life must be lived forwards and understood backwards. […]Two-way …

#OTD in 1952 – Birth of actor, Liam Neeson, in Ballymena, Co Antrim. — Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, truck driver, assistant architect and an amateur boxer. He had originally sought a career as a teacher by attending St. Mary’s Teaching College, Newcastle. However, in 1976, Neeson joined the Belfast Lyric Players’ Theater and made his professional acting debut in the play “The Risen People”. After…#OTD in …

Microcosm of the Macrocosm: 7 Planet-Focused Stories from Around the World — Life & Soul Magazine

Here’s a roundup of some of the stories that have captured Life & Soul Magazine’s attention this week: 1. World Oceans Day: Take a biodiversity tour of Dublin Bay – Marine ecologist and Coastwatch director Karin Dubsky highlights the biodiversity of Dublin Bay. Coastwatch is launching a citizen science survey on World Oceans Day, Irish […]Microcosm …