A Travel Jacket With Handy Pockets

 

Angela Lansbury wearing navy waistcoat or gilet. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

Angela wearing navy gilet at Toastmasters International, Singapore, speech contest. Photo by bystander.

Wearing amd matching waistcoats

You can  see the dark navy gilet on my right shoulder. Your gilet or waistcoat has to be short enough to hide under the hem of your jacket, or the jacket must be long enough to cover the gilet. 

Waistcoat Styles And Colours

Traditionally, a man's suit consisted of a waistcoat which ended at the waist and had two outside pockets ending at the hem, whilst the jacket was longer. I have a waistcoat which has to be worn on every journey with every outfit.

This is the jacket which I wear daily, so as not to keep moving items from one garment to another. I have previously lost my UK train pass and my Singapore NRIC because I changed jackets or changed bags.

Securing Pockets

I have several traditional waistcoats inherited from my uncle, but the pockets have no zips. Not safe for doorkeys, credit cards, lipsticks or anything of value. The pockets are small, just large enough for a small hanky (tissue) or business card or credit card or lipstick. But I still need to find a tiny zip or to sew on press studs.

Gilet

What is a gilet? A French word for what the British call a waistcoat and what the Americans call a vest. 

 I thought my gilet came from Patra, but they made the light, silk, navy hooded jacket. My lightweight, navy gilet is from LA men's Collection KOYO.  

Patra

Patra in the UK sell clothes in silk, bamboo, cotton and mixtures. Lots of lightweight clothes.

Koyo

I found them on Facebook.

Advantages of Jackets With Pockets

Why am I wearing a man's gilet? I think I bought it from a shop in Cambridge, England. I recall thinking it was expensive. I went away. I walked all around the city, in and out of many shops. I saw lots of souvenirs and garments which I did not want. I went back to the shop. 

A lightweight jacket with pockets is always handy. You can have your travel pass or bus or train ticket in the top chest pockets or the lower waist height and handy hand height pocket. You can keep valuables such as credit cards on you for quick payment. You can keep a small passport or national identity card on you. That way you find it quicker at check points. If you leap out of a plane or coach in an emergency or breakdown and are told to leave your luggage behind you still have your identity card, credit card, or door key with you. If your handbag is stolen or falls, you still have your vital documents. If you need a  pen and paper or tiny notebook, it is to hand.

your paper hanky (tissues) or toilet paper are nearby why you wash your hands, not on a hook.

Male Jackets?

Why buy a male jacket? They don't seem to make jackets with multiple pockets for ladies. Well, except for cooks, waitresses and restaurant staff, gardeners, and skiers.  There  is much more choice of styles, colours and weights if you look for the words photographer, fisherman, sports. Pilots. Pockets!

Disadvantages Of Men's Clothes

Men's clothes may be in huge sizes. The jacket might be too heavy. It is clumsy. The cut is loose. It is wrong, with no waist, no room for a big bust. Not smart if you are travelling to a hotel or restaurant on public transport.

Pink Ladies Waistcoat

Shein in Feb 2023 had a ladies waistcoat worn with nothing under it, tight fitting, bright colour. Only 10 Singapore dollars (plus postage). I put the picture on my Pinterest page.

Navy Gilet (Waistcoat)

Red Cape blazer

Be Jealous

Useful Websites

Amazon

Ebay

KOYO

https://www.facebook.com/koyoclothing/

Patra

https://blog.patra.com/tag/gilets/

Shein

https://sg.shein.com/Solid-Button-Front-Waistcoat-p-11223300-cat-1739.html?skucode=I52lu1

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Live Poetry Readings On Zoom

 

You can join poetry readings on Zoom. Each poet is allowed 2 poems, about five minutes in total. The convenors like to have your name and someone to vouch for you.

The theme was love.

I hunted through my poetry worksbook for a poem on love.

I could only find a limerick.

Jill wrote to me by direct message in the chat

Jill Sharon Kimmelman wrote

Outstanding inking Angela

I especially enjoyed the first limerick/light-hearted poetry.

P Suvarna wrote to everyone about me

Love is a link which saves life 

Love is great 

Great poem, Angela, madam 

The convenors and others comment and praise the poems.

That was awesome lucilla

Lantern Carrier  to  Everyone 22:55

Lucilla> 'in the narrow hours of sunset, nothing else matters.' Your words and images are so beautiful!!! Amazing!! - Lantern

One poem went: 'I had no idea ....' as a refrain repeated at the start of each sentence.

A commentator said: "You said, 'no idea' - but you had many ideas!"

I wrote

That was awesome, Lucilla'

Lantern Carrier  to  Everyone 22:55

Lucilla> 'in the narrow hours of sunset, nothing else matters.' Your words and images are so beautiful!!! Amazing!! - Lantern

The groups I went to had many poets, 18 to 36, all reading two poems, then the convener asking for verbal comments in addition to the Zoom chat comments.

The theme was Valentine's. 

Dramatic Dress

I was already wearing a blouse with pink hearts.

I noticed on zoom the hearts looked very small. You need one large heart.

You could draw a heart on a white tee-shirt. Make a template or stencil.

You will find lots of poetry groups though Facebook.

Please share links to your favourite posts. Please add me to the whatsapp groups of poetry readings.

Useful Websites

Facebook.com - Angela Lansbury Poetry which rhymes

The fertile brains

Poetry Reading Online

 I have been writing poetry for years, but never made it to an online poetry reading group or festival. I made up new poetry at the annual events of Swanwick Writers Summer School and Fishguard Writers Holiday in Wales. But I travelled little.

For several weeks, a member of Braddell Heights Toastmasters Club, Sylvia Ang, has been posting, in our WhatsApp toastmasters' chat group, accounts of her visits to read poetry at events in Scotland and elsewhere.

In the summer, I used to think she had visited these other countries on holiday. Then, one day, I noticed something odd.  I realized that she was in Singapore, but had attended an event in Scotland. 

I wrote and asked her, 'I saw you at a Scottish poetry reading event. Did you actually visit Scotland?'

 She replied, 'No, it's online.'

I asked her, 'Please put me in touch with them.'

I attended my first online poetry meeting, Reacharts Open Mic, and I was impressed! Firstly, the organization of the online event. Everybody had up to five minutes to read one long or two short poems.The link person for the evening muted everybody whilst the poet was reading. The microphones were briefly unmuted after each reading for two or three people to enthuse about what they liked.

In theory you can attend poetry readings all over the world and read out your poems. In practice, the convener may wish to send you an invitation, or to limit numbers so everybody has a chance to read.

From your point of view the constraints may be, do you have anything to read, which piece should you read, do you have any props or slides or suitable clothes for the tone of your poem,  

Before starting to read, the master of ceremonies for the evening asked us to tell everybody where we were from, what we wrote, and any books we had written and were hoping to sell and where te others could buy them. The chat box was a place for us to introduce ourselves and mention our books.

I tried to write down who was who, to note who ran other poetry groups online. However, I soon lost track. I suggested that one day a technical person should show us how to make a background with our name or the cover of our book with the website link. 

The technical person came up with a simpler solution. He suggested we rename ourselves in the list of participants, under the tab rename. I did this. I put the country and where to find my books on Lulu and Amazon.  

What can you do to find poetry groups?

Look in Facebook for poetry meetings online. 

Look for Meetup poetry meetings in person.

If you don't find what you want, start your own.

Help with from Facebook on learning Swedish on Duolingo

 I reached a certain level of my Duolingo Swedish course and the system asked me if I wanted to share an announcement on Facebook about my achievement. I did.

The Duloingo system put up a picture not saying the language but listing words I had learned.

This forced me to check whether I could still remember them. I could, six out of eight, and in context I can turn them into English. But the word endings were a puzzle. Was it book or books? To laugh, I laugh? I went into translate Google to check the Swedish English and turn the results back English to Swedish and again reversing. Here are the results.

Swedish - English

1 flicka - girl

2 morgon = morning, like the German, morgen

3 bocker looks like bok which is book - is bocker books?

Yes. Add two dots over the o and add two letters of the alphabet and you have the plural, books.

4 Kommer looks like come and sounds like come. It translates as comes. 

5 fragar with a circle above the first a, ask?

fraga is ask. fragar (with a circle above the first a) is questions

6 skrattar - laughing

7 hastar with two dots over the first a is horses

Simple Wiki explains the pronunciation

There are three characters in the Swedish language that are not used in English. These are å, ä and ö. The letter å is a vowel sound between [a] and [o], similar to the English word awe. The letter ä is a vowel sound similar to [ɛ], like in the English word bed. The letter ö is a vowel sound between [o] and [ɛ], pronounced [øː] like the u in the English word burn. These characters are also used in the Finnish language, while Norwegian and Danish languages replace ä and ö with similar characters æ and ø.

Swedish also has some important differences in grammar. Definite articles are suffixed onto the end of their nouns, so ett hus (a house) becomes huset (the house). Also unlike English, Swedish uses two grammatical genders called Common and Neuter. Nouns of the Common gender are sometimes called "en words", and many words for living (or once-living) things are "en words". Nouns of the Neuter gender are sometimes called "ett words".

Swedish	English
Ett/En	One
Två	Two
Tre	Three
Fyra	Four
Fem	Five
Sex	Six
Sju	Seven
Åtta	Eight
Nio	Nine
Tio	Ten
Ja	Yes
Nej	No
Jag	I
Du	You
Mig	Me
Han	He
Hon	She
Vi	We
De/dem	They/them
Jag är	I am
Sverige	Sweden
Hus	House
Hem	Home
Väg	Way
Björnar	Bears
Hjälp	Help

Basic Swedish Expressions

God dag/Hej	Good day/Hello
Hur mår du?	How are you?
Jag mår bra, tack	Very good, thank you
Tack	Thank you
Tack så mycket	Thank you very much
God morgon	Good morning
God eftermiddag	Good evening
Hej då	Goodbye

Useful websites

Swedish and other languages to learn

duolingo.com

Swedish language in Wikipedia

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Ten Commandments Yemenite Aramaic, Arabic and Hebrew Version (עברית ערבית ארמית)

The Ten Commandments chanted in Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic, from a Yemenite. 

I found this in the Polyglot page on Facebook.

Aramaic was the everyday language which Jesus would have spoken and heard in the street. You can still hear Aramaic in parts of the Middle East. And Orthodox Jewish homes have the ketubah, the marriage contract, in a frame in the house, written in Aramaic, sometimes also in Hebrew or, in Reform communities, in English or the local language.

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic

https://www.facebook.com/groups/polygotcommunity/

Facebook Polyglot Group

About the Author Angela Lansbury

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
The Author of several books including  Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.

Blogs travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President

Join BHA 1st Wednesday 7pm and 3rd Saturday 2 pm Singapore time 

Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;

Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;

Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.

More details from Toastmasters International find a club.

Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.

Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.

Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.

Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.

Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.

Language and speech workshops in Singapore.

Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.

Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.

Angela is on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter. She would be delighted to link up with new friends.

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Books by Angela Lansbury
How to be the best man. (Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts.(Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Unforgettable British Weekends.
Poetry Workshop Workbook.
The Tailor and the Spy. (Lulu.)
Larry The Talking Labrador. (Lulu.)
Writing Poetry for fun.

Quick Quotations

Who Said What When

 

A quick and easy way to learn Spanish - from Spanish Toastmasters Facebook Pages

 

I rediscovered a quick and easy way to learn Spanish. You search for a member of a Toastmasters  International club in Spain, South America or Mexico. Read that person's posts. The posters which have been inserted as pictures cannot be translated, although I remember recently reading that some system is developing the ability to read texts on pdfs. (A pdf is a picture.) However, where the member has written text, or commented on a picture, the word translate is after the message on Facebook. You can click on it and compare. I try to read the Spanish first. When I reach a word which I am unsure about, I check with the English translation. 

You can also read the English translation first. Then go to the Spanish and see if it all makes sense to you. 

I joined Odyssey, a system which matches,  Toastmasters with others. I have been paired with two others. The third and latest is in Mexico. 

This means a slightly different Spanish from the Spanish in South America and Spain. Never mind. Anything is better than nothing.

I have listed in my notebook all the words I instantly recognize, as well as those mystery words I needed to check. I have rearranged them alphabetically here for you - and for myself to come back to later as revision.

An autocorrect keeps changing my spelling sometimes from a Spanish word to a totally different English word. So I have inserted spaces.

Spanish - English

Spanish - English - Spanish

WORDS EXACTLY THE SAME

club - club  

e r a - e r a 

SIMILAR TO ENGLISH OR OTHER LANGUAGES

    A g o s t o - August

de - of (same as the French word)

hay - have (the two first letters are the same and v and y look similar)

la - the (same as the French)

M u n d i a l - global, worldwide

no - no / is not

n u e v a - new

p o r - for

positivo - positive

un - an (the same as French)

sempre - always 

tema - time (the consonants t and m are the same, and tempo from music starts with three of the same letters,  also the English word temporal, even the word temporary, meaning a short time)

WORDS I NEEDED TO LOOK UP

aburridas - bored (initial a like the English word awake from wake, then Burridas letters b -r-d as i bored with as plural, we are all bored) 

conocer - know (like cognoscenti, meaning those in the know)

Corea - Korea (the C sounds like K, as in the English word cake)

hacen - made (like hatched)

ilntentale - try (think of I will - maybe not - have the intention or tentatively)

p r e g u n t a - question

prueba - proof (now that you know the translation, you can remember that pru sounds look the start of proof, probably but we need(ed) to probe the proof, we probed and here is the proof)

pruebas - tests (like proofs or probes)

English - Spanishhttps://www.facebook.com/tampineschangkatadvTMC/

always - sempre

and - y

bored - abburidas - bored

club - club

have - hay

know - concocer

n u a v a - new

n u n c a - never

no - not/is not

proof - prueba

p r e g u n t a  - q u e s t i o n

l a  - the

t e m a - t i m e

worldwide - M u n d i a l / g l o b a l

 

Useful Websites

duolingo.com

facebook polyglots group to ask questions and discuss

https://www.facebook.com/groups/polygotcommunity/

memrise.com

translate google

 

Angela Lansbury is VP PR of Braddell Heights Advanced club and Tampines Changkat Advanced club.

https://www.toastmasters.org/Find-a-Club/00009689-braddell-heights-advanced-club

https://www.facebook.com/tampineschangkatadvTMC/

Do you speak 100 words of Spanish?

 I was asked this by a language learning website. So I sat down to create a list. Some I got from memories of place names. I had to be careful not to include Italian. Here is my list.

Spanish -

English

1 sombrero - hat

2 manana - tomorrow (morning)

3 adios - goodbye

4 amigo(s) - friend (s)

5 los - the plural is in Los Angeles, and las as in Las Palmas?

6 angeles - angels

7 palmas - palms

8 villa - house

9 holla - hi/hello

10 hermosa- beautiful/sweet?

11 bella - beautiful (Spanish and Italian?)

12 bella - beautiful

13 vista - view

14 pequeno  - small

15 grande - large (as in Rio Grande)

16 rio - river

17 la - the

18 mare - sea

19 plaza - square

20 frontera - frontier

21 la - the

22 playa - beach

23 piscina - pool

24 gato - cat

25 perro - dog

26 pesce - fish (Italian)

27 via - way/road

28 uno

29 dos

30 tres

31 quatro

32 cinque

33 hoy - this/today

34 nero - black

35 hola - hello

36 verde green

37 rosa red

38 quinta corner

39 mia my

40 nos our

41 nino boy

42 nina girl

43 copa cup/vase?

44 sopa soup/soap?

45 esta this

46 es is

47 muy very

48 san saint as in San Francisco

49 tia aunt as in tia maria the drink

50 tio uncle

51 torre torres towers

52 lampa -lamp

53 bandera flag

54 acqua  water

55 nonos children

56 bebe baby

57 molinos windmills (torremolinos - windmill towers)

58 de of / del of the

59 frontera frontier

60 blanco white

61 vino wine

62 mas much more

63 bonita beautiful

64 senor sir

65 senora lady or madam

66 senorita - miss

67 argenta/argentina - silver

68 costa - coast (Costa del Sol sunny coast)

69 sol sun

70 la the

71 telefona telephone

72 azucar sugar

73 cafe coffee

74 es is

75 no - not

76 elefanta

77 elegante - elegant

78 infanta - daughter, infant

79 castille - castle (castello Italian?)

80 desayuno - breakfast

81 noches - night buenos noches good night

82 real royal

83 morte - dead

84 cava - cave as in cava wine from storage in caves

85 bodega - wine shop/cellar Mdeira ne bar

86 tinto dark red or tinted

87 barca boat

88 siete seven

89 ocho eight

90 nove nine

91 quiero I want

92 gracias thanks (muchas gracias many thanks)

93 jardin garden (the same as the French. Jardim is Portuguese - I learned in Madeira)

94 por - for

95 alto high (same as Italian?)

96 cielo sky

97 montana - mountain, as in the US state

98 bicycleta - bicycle

99 ronda/rondo? - round (as in the town of that name in southern Spain)

100 escola - school (same as Malay/Indonesian?)

The question was, do you know 1000 words of Spanish? So I must have 1001, with a couple of extras in case some of them are Italian.

1 capella cap (as in a capella singing without musical instruments) 

2 que what (the Italian song is Que sera sera, whatever will be, will be)

3 bluson blouse

4 la grande - the big one, the Xmas day lottery in Spain

5 felicitas - happy/good wishes/congrats

6 natale/navidad -birth xmas day

7 ave as in ave Maria, our - Italian?

8 chiesa church or cheese quiesa

9 flores flowers

10 vero real

11 cuio - leather (Italian on shoes)

12 citron - lemon 

13 balcon - balcony

lucky / good luck

Useful websites

duolingo (free, with ads) 

memrise.com (free)

helloChinese (free)

https://1000wordsapp.com/purchase

Spanish speaking Toastmasters International clubs

toastmasters international find a club

About the author

Angela Lansbury is Vice President Public Relations of Braddell Heights Advanced and Tampines Changkat Advancedgual,  speakers training club which are part of Toastmasters International. The USA has several Spanish speakings as well as the English speaking clubs. You can pick up Spanish from buying or reading online their Spanish cubs welcome pages and manuals. 

In The USA, UK, Singapore and worldwide there are many clubs which are English speaking, as well as Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Tamil, Malay.

The inauguration of Tampines Changkat Advanced is today, Tuesday 29 2021, online on  zoom.

You can find the club through their facebook page  

https://www.facebook.com/tampineschangkatadvTMC

The meetings are free for visitors. Visitors can watch, and join in speaking by introducing themselves and volunteering to do a 2 minutes impromptu  speech in table topics.

If you wish to join for a year, it costs about 190 US dollars, to have monthly meetings online, a mentor, a magazine, and one of the 11  Pathways, consisting of 14 project. Each project starts with 3 speeches of your choice of subject, lasting 4 to 6 minutes, then 5 to 7 minutes. The Pathways include the most popular Presentation Mastery. I chose  humorous speaking as my second Pathway, costing 20 dollars. Then my third was a leadership course. Come and see for free.

The club also has meetings in person in Singapore

You can also contact my other club, smaller Braddell Heights Advanced, which is a cosy little club with more chances to speak.

Contact either of these or other clubs through Toastmasters International Find a Club.

more later

They fought back! Account of the Ecape From Sobibor: the books, films and research into Every Name Counts!

Sobibor, mother and child statue.

 I bought a book on the escape from Sobibor. I saw the film. (Americans say movie.) Now I find that Wikipedia has a completely detailed account of the organization of the escape and chief people concerned.

I then discovered a Facebook page. Finally, I found Every Name Counts, a project inviting students and adults to help recording victims' names from documents in archives.

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor_extermination_camp

http://www.sobibor-memorial.eu/pl

https://www.facebook.com/Majdanek.Memorial

https://arolsen-archives.org/en/learn-participate/exhibitions-campaigns/everynamecounts/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nazi_concentration_camps_by_name

From the wiki article on Sobibor

Further reading

• Bialowitz, Philip; Bialowitz, Joseph (2010). A Promise at Sobibór. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-24800-0.
• Blatt, Thomas (1997). From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-1302-2.
• Freiberg, Dov (2007). To Survive Sobibor. Gefen Publishing House. ISBN 978-965-229-388-6.
• Novitch, Miriam (1980). Sobibor, Martyrdom and Revolt: Documents and Testimonies. Holocaust Library. ISBN 0-89604-016-X.
• Ticho, Kurt (2008). My Legacy: Holocaust, History and the Unfinished Task of Pope John Paul II. Muzeum Pojezierza Łęczyńsko-Włodawskiego. ISBN 9788361393207.
• Zielinski, Andrew (2003). Conversations with Regina. Hyde Park Press. ISBN 0-9750766-0-4.
• Walsh, Ann Markham (2016). Dancing Through Darkness. Cable Publishing. ISBN 978-1-934980-07-1.
• Wewryk, Kalmen (2008). To Sobibor and Back: An Eyewitness Account. Muzeum Pojezierza Łęczyńsko-Włodawskiego. ISBN 9788361393160.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sobibór extermination camp.

• Stichting Sobibor, the Dutch Sobibor Foundation
• Collection of interviews , from NIOD
• Sobibor Museum
• Nooit Voltooid Verleden Archaeological and testimonial documents
• Sobibor entry at the Holocaust Research Project
• Kurt Ticho testimony
• Toivi Blatt testimony
• Esther Raab testimony

• Liberation of Auschwitz - 60th Anniversary (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
• Holocaust Encyclopedia - Auschwitz (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
• Virtual Reality panoramas of Auschwitz and Birkenau (Interactive Virtual Reality panoramas of Auschwitz and Birkenau)

About the Author

Angela Lansbury is teacher of English. (Advanced English and English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language, French and other languages, an aspiring polyglot.)

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Member of many toastmasters  speaker training clubs, and speaking contest judge.

Angela Lansbury, the author of 20 books including Wedding Speeches & Toasts, and Quick Quotations, has lived in the USA, Spain and Singapore. 

She  has several blogs and writes daily on at least two of the following:

travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

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Check the country where you are going, staying or stuck for the latest Covid19 reports

 You can check the daily newspapers of your home country or the country you want to visit or the place where you relatives are staying or visiting.

Today I found that the Singapore goverenment not only offers to send daily updates to your phone. They have a Facebook page. 

Useful Websites

https://www.facebook.com/coronavirus_info/?page_source=notif_coronavirus_updates&hoisted_content_id=10158814483015631&hoisted_module_type=top_recent_posts&notif_id=1611107736953547&notif_t=coronavirus_update&ref=notif

About the Author

Angela Lansbury teacher of English (advanced and English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language, French and other languages, aspiring polyglot.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Member of many toastmasters  speaker training clubs and speaking contest judge.

Angela Lansbury, the author of 20 books including Wedding Speeches & Toasts, and Quick Quotations, has lived in the USA, Spain and Singapore. 

She  has several blogs and writes daily on at least two of the following:

travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

 Please share links to your favourite posts.