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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Practising Polish Pronunciation - on holiday or here at home

 



Poland has a lot to offer those on business and holiday. I have already seen Chopin's monument in Warsaw. The grave of the inventor of Esperanto language in Warsaw - on my wishlist is his museum in another city. The pretty southern former capital and trips to salt mines - and Auschwitz. The amusing ankle height dwarfs in Wroclaw are on my wishlist. Amber and Polish milk caramel sweets, I loved. I have written about these in my other posts. 

Over here in London we have Polish supermarkets catering to a lot of Polish people.

We have a Polish plumber. We have trouble saying his surname. 

I looked at the written explanations of the Polish language. It seemed that the z sound is like an h so that sz is sh and cz is ch. Easy-peasy.

So, a name ending czyk is more or less chick.

Then I looked at some videos. Type in speak or pronounce Polish and Youtube will show you a choice of half a dozen.

You have to add two more sounds which are not like English. The w is pronounced v like in German. 

The j is pronounced y like in many other languages. 

And three letters?There are a few more. Add a diacritic or a little tail and you change a c to a ch. Or is there a ts? And - Enough for one day. I shall come back to this tomorrow. At least I get a rough idea. 

Try it yourself.

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Potato Paradise, Peru and worldwide. My Museum Wishlist - the Idaho Potato Museum, USA, and potato museums in Canada and Poland

Idaho Potato Museum, in Blackfoot, Idaho, USA.
 

I love potatoes. More than rice and pasta. I love potatoes. I grew up in the UK when in postwar Britain the shops advertised meat and two ve and one of the vegetables was potato (now counted as a starch.)

Potato Dishes

What do I love? In England I would have roast potatoes with a Sunday lunch, in Jewish restaurants potato latke (like the Swiss rosti and American has fries. 

What else? First and foremost, saute potatoes. For health, and speed or rather speed ad ease of preparation, baked potatoes in their jackets.

Every UK supermarket has lots of potatoes all year. Starting with new potatoes  my least favourite.

Where are the potato museums.

The USA - Idaho.

Also Canada.

The Canadian Potato Museum.

POLAND

The potato is the symbol of Poznan. The  Potato Museums's guided tour starts with visitors preparing a potato dish with spices. and ends with the visitor eating it. 

Poland also has a monument to the potato on the north west coast at Biesiekierz. I had trouble spelling and typing the names, until I realized it was i before e three times..

Monument to the potato at Biesiekierz, Poland. More details in Wikipedia.

Where can you eat and find potatoes?

Potato festivals are held all over the world, including the USA and Ireland.

Vending machines for cooked potatoes have been seen in Belgium, Canada, Israel, Singapore, and other countries.  

Potato dishes for travellers to try world wide include savoury potatoes and desserts, admittedly mostly made with sweet potatoes.:


UK, especially England

Fish and chips


INDIAN (in Indian restaurants in the UK and Singapore)

Aloo ghobi

Sag aloo (spinach and potato. Aloo is potato.\


USA

Baked potatoes in their jackets (Also called jacket potatoes.)

McDonalds.


UK

Fish and chip shops.

McDonalds fries

Potato crisps (called chips in the USA)

In which countries and places can travellers find potatoes?


BELGIUM

French fries.called Frites


France

Pommes Dauphinoise


 Useful Websites

https://www.foodrepublic.com/1294946/things-you-didnt-know-about-potatoes/

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

https://www.idahopotatomuseum.com/

For foodies!

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

CANADA

https://potatomuseum.com/ (Canada)

https://canadianpotatomuseum.com/

Also in Canada an advertising sculpture of the Big Potato Man

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

POLAND

https://its-poland.com/attraction/potato-museum-of-poznan

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/potato-monument-pomnik-ziemniaka

WORLDWIDE

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

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

DIY Potato recipes

https://www.marksandspencer.com/c/food-and-wine/cooking/recipes/potatoes-recipes/

https://www.thelittleepicurean.com/purple-sweet-potato-pie-bars/

Using the book Naturally Delicious desserts.

Potato Food

Tesco's website for the UK offers Maris Piper potatoes, all rounder potatoes, new potatoes, mashed potatoes and peeled potatoes.

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/260999122

Potato Gifts

Crochet Potato ball with message

https://www.temu.com/uk/1pc-mini-funny-positive-potato-cute-wool-crochet-knitted-potato-toy-party-favor-gifts-knitted-plush-potatoes-birthday-christmas-decoration-encourage-positive-energy-

Key ring motif potato with message

https://www.temu.com/uk/cute-acrylic-potato-keychain-with-tassel-double-sided-emotional-support-appreciation-gift

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

MUSIC MUSEUMS WORLDWIDE

If you are planning a trip to another city or country, or in your own home town or city, you might want to add in a music museum.


UK

Horniman Museum S London.

Huge cllection of instruments. Listening posts at teach section. 

The museum is free. 

Also outdoors where is a large item with different sounds which children can strike and hear the different sounds.


USA

Scottsdale

The world's largest music museum.

New Orleans

Jazz mussum

Touring

National Guitar Museum


AUSTRALIA

Museum with large Guitar statue outside.

Big Golden Guitar, (about 40 feet tall) outside the Gallery of Stars Wax Museum.


AUSTRIA

1 Museic Mile, Vienna.

5 point stars to Smetana, Strauss and many more.

2 Vienna cemetery with composers' corner.

3 Sound of Musidc Movie Cemetery site

The cemetery where the stars of the film hid was reproduced in the studio. Here in the video is the original which inspired the movie scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC5eXUl9pOw


FINLAND

Sibelius Museum, Turku



FRANCE

Paris

Edith Piaf

Chopin 


JAMAICA

Bob Marley

Reggae


POLAND

Chopin


RUSSIA

Tchaikovsky


Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_museums

https://www.nationalguitarmuseum.com/

Sound of Music cemetery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC5eXUl9pOw

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Saturday, January 28, 2023

Holocaust Remembrance Day - January 27 - where you can learn more about the liberation of Auschwitz and survivors

 This January day commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz in the south of German-occupied Poland, near Krakow, by the Russians.

The motto over the entrance to the camp was Arbeit macht frei. Work makes you free. Those who could not work, children, the elderly, the disabled, were selected and sent straight to their deaths. 

I remember reading about a survivor who learned that her parents were sent straight to be killed. I was horrified. I thought she would be upset. On the contrary. She was relieved that her parents did not have to witness the horror of the roll calls, watching people being executed.



Pictures of those who did not survive.
In the early days, those who arrived were photographed on arrival for identity. However, those adults selected for survival, after three months their faces and bodies were so thin, so haggard from the horrors, so changed that they were unrecognizable and could not be identified from the photos. So, instead, their arms were stamped with numbers.

Survivors. After six months, children had survived, now well-fed, were brought back to the camp for a photo to show who the Russians had liberated. Whilst they might have been relieved to see each other, I cannot imagine that the children were happy to be back. 

National representatives are invited or volunteer to go to Auschwitz each year for a commemoration. In 2023 the Russians, at war with Ukraine, were not invited.  

If you go to Krakow, as I did, you will find a pretty, small city. It was small enough to be quickly captured and preserved by the invading Germans during WW2 as their HQ in the area. Auschwitz is just outside and one of the main places visited in the area. I knew it would be grim, but if you are taking guided tours you can hardly avoid it, because many full day tours include a half day there, and if you are in the area for two days, you have done most other places on the first day. 

On a slightly lighter note, the museum in the city in Schindler's former factory site, provides much less about those who lose their lives and much more about the survivors. I was glad to visit that afterwards. 

Israel honours those who saved Jews at Yad Vashem. You can visit holocaust memorials and museums all around the world. See below.
Anne Frank was in Auschwitz in Poland and was transported to Bergen Belsen in Germany where she died. 

Useful Websites

HISTORY

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

2023 NEWS

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11683361/Putin-blasts-neo-Nazis-Ukraine-Holocaust-Remembrance-Day.html

MUSEUMS TO VISIT IN POLAND

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz-Birkenau_State_Museum

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

Photos

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Konzentrationslager_Majdanek

UKRAINE - Memorial in Ukraine, Babi Yar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar_Holocaust_Memorial_Center#:~:text=On%20September%2029%2C%202016%2C%20President,Ukraine%2C%20in%202025%2F26.&text=Memorial%20to%20the%20victims%20of%20the%20Holocaust.

UK Holocaust Museum

https://www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk/things-to-do/the-national-holocaust-centre-and-museum-p586711

USA Holocaust museum

https://www.ushmm.org/online/ihrd/2023/

ISRAEL

https://www.yadvashem.org/

VENEZUELA

Star of David shape Shoah memorial in Jewish cemetery in Caracus, Venezuela


Holocaust memorials and museums worldwide

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

A happy story of a survivor and the rescuing family in Belgium

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11671459/Man-revisits-home-mother-hid-Nazis-80-years-ago.html

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Friday, October 7, 2022

Buy Polish Sweets from Wedel, White Marshmallow Covered in Caramel and Many More flavours


 If you visit Poland or anybody from Poland is visiting your country for a holiday or exhibiting at an exhibition, ask if you can try, or if they can buy you some Polish sweets. They are unlike anything you have had before. 

My Polish friends from the jewellery show in Singapore kindly gave me a box of Wedel 'chocolates'.  You might call them sweets, although several varieties are chocolate covered. 

They come in double layer boxes of small cylinders.  Three strips of six, 18 per layer, 36 to a box. That is one a day for a month, if you are living alone, or your partner does not eat them. Or one each for two of you after dinner every evening for two and a half weeks. 

They are very more-ish. As with chocolates, you need to limit yourself to none if you are trying to lose weight, one if you wish to stay the same weight, and two at a weekend or if you are happy to put on more weight or start dieting on Monday.

The Story Behind The Sweets

The Greeks started it, with their myths about bird milk. 

Shops

You can buy them in London, England, which has a large Polish community. Look for Polish shops and delis.  The supermarkets stock them too.

Online

Online I found them at assorted prices. But the cheapest ones were the same price if you had to pay high postage. So if you can get them with free postage that brings the price including postage down from a whopping 20 to a reasonable 5 (pounds or various dollars, American, Singapore, Australian).

If you look at all the varieties online, if you visit Poland, you can take your picture to compare, in supermarkets, in the duty free shops on the way out with your last cash. 

If you are not travelling but being visited by travellers, or meeting them, or are expecting to see a visitor or seller from Poland, ask them to bring you back either any variety or the one you find hardest to get or most expensive, including postage, online.

What travellers can see:

First look for the Wedel logo. An elaborate E, two letters e in the name, and a diagonal Italic f shape curve underneath.

The firm is big, huge. This is their fine factory building. The polish word for factory is similar to the English word fabric, fabryka.

However, holidaymakers are more likely to want to visit the original Wedel shop and tea place. 

Or a shop such as this one in the Intercontinental hotel in Warsaw, Poland's capital.

In the Poish language cz is pronounced like ch. The c becomes a K. The t becomes a d. Czekolada - chocolate. (Pronounced check - oh-larder.) You can translate using translate Google, and click on the symbol under the word to hear the pronunciation. 


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Back in 2017 you could see the Wedel sweetmeats symbol on the Polish airliner or the airline LOT


DescriptionLOT (Ptasie Mleczko Livery), SP-LDF, Embraer ERJ-170STD
Date
SourceLOT (Ptasie Mleczko Livery), SP-LDF, Embraer ERJ-170STD
AuthorAnna Zvereva from Tallinn, Estonia

Look at the picture closely and you will see the chocolates and a bird shape.

If you are ever in Russia you might see the Russian equivalents of the Polish sweets. there is also a white cake which looks a bit like cheesecake.

Useful Websites
A useful summary of different types of Polish chocolates, their colours, ingredients and names.



Thursday, September 29, 2022

All about amber - visit the Amber museum, see a public Amber exhibition annually, and in the trade, go to business to business jewellery and gem exhibitons

Photo by Angela Lansbury.

I learned about Amber in Poland from the Jewellery & Gem Show.

The city of Amber is Gdansk on the north coast, the Baltic Sea coast of Poland. You can visit an amber museum, attend an amber exhibition every year, and get your amber authenticated as real. Two lovely ladies, Alexandra and Margaret (in English, in Polish you add some sh sounds) told me all about it when I met them at the Jewellery Gem World show in Singapore in September 2022.

Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Apparently, amber feels warmer than synthetics. It is still living, has been evolving hundreds of years, and is still able to change. It is affected by heat, will change colour.  

They showed me a chart of amber colours. If you visit the annual amber exhibition in Gdansk, you can buy amber. Detour to their stand to get it tested. Any problem? It's rare, but has been known. You could protest to the seller (the retailer who might say they too, were misled by the wholesaler). Sh. Don't say I told you.  If you want a certificate from them at the exhibition you have to pay. For most people just knowing they had real amber would be enough. 

Why would you need a certificate? To tell your family. To keep. To show an insurance company. In case you want to sell your jewellery later, or buy better pieces and would like to release the earliest ones you bought. To be sure you were not buying piece of plastic.

Visiting the amber museum has shot up my wishlist. I have their magazine which is in Polish and English, very handy if you are keen to learn a few words of Polish easily.

Thursday, March 3, 2022

War in Ukraine - Lviv station - 50 miles from the border. How long to walk? Ukrainian signs



 Ukrainians are stranded on Lviv station, according to reports and pictures shown in the news on Monday Feb 28, 2022. How long to walk? 

Lviv - is about 50 miles from the border with Poland. No train tickets. I asked online: How long does it take to walk a mile? 50 miles? What do you need? Strong boots. Water. My ancestor left in 1880.

Somebody (Rupinder) replied with how long it took to walk a mile. He said 2.5 miles an hour. He walks about 4.5 a day. He said factor in fatigue. He estimates 10 miles a day, 15 on a good day. that makes 3-5 days of walking. You need 3-5 days of food and drink - which must be stocked and carried.

Somebody else said factor in rest periods. Of course, it depends on your speed.

I assume that a person with a suitcase and perhaps a child and a pet would go at the slowest pace. You would also get tired as you progressed. (Useful to practise running marathons!)

The final estimate is about 4 to 5 days. You need water. Food. (plasters for blisters.) Shelter from overhead planes. Valuables hidden from robbers or being dropped out of loose top pockets.

Maybe money to bribe guards, or to get a lift the other side to family or a refuge.

Handy to be able to speak Polish, too. Is it similar to Ukrainian?

Polish uses the Roman alphabet familiar to English speakers.

Ukrainian uses an alphabet which looks like Russian, or Cyrillic.

The Ukrainian alphabet
А аБ бВ вà 㥠ґД дЕ еЄ єЖ жЗ зИ и
І іЇ їЙ йК кЛ лМ мН нО оП пР рС с
Т тУ уФ фХ хЦ цЧ чШ шЩ щЬ ьЮ юЯ я

Mark said a strong young person could do 50 in a day. But if you allow for carrying goods, or children, longer. Now I understand those pictures of Indians riding on the tops of trains and clinging on to the outsides. Train surfing is not a good idea. Wikipedia ends with a list of fatalities, including those in Ukraine. Makes you appreciate getting a seat on a train.

Useful Websites

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

https://languagetsar.com/how-different-and-similar-are-polish-and-ukrainian/

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

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

What Are Stolpersteines? A new kind of holocaust memorial

 

Stones recalling the Frank family lived here. 

Maybe these are the first ones you have seen. But once you know about them, it becomes easier to find them. There are 70,ooo of these stones, in more than 700 locations,.
Countries include Austria, Germany



Stolpersteines sound like stepping stones but they are literally stumbling blocks. Stein is stone.  They are raised stones which make you stop and read the engraving that here lived a person before they were taken away by the holocaust. Mostly stones commemorate the last happy home of Jewish families such as the family of Anne Frank. But also other holocaust victims. 

The movement started small and spread city by city, sometimes unanimously welcomed, sometimes facing fierce opposition. Why put stones on the ground instead of the wall? Stones on the ground are harder to read.  You may have to stoop to see the writing. Is it disrespectful to tread on a memorial?

 Sometimes the actual house has gone. Sometimes you want the stones to stay even if the site is later redeveloped, unlike a plaque on a wall which could be removed. Sometimes the house is a private dwelling, but the road outside is public land so it is easier and quicker to get permission. Now these little memorials have spread through several countries.

Stolpersteine are found in Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Russia, Croatia, France, Poland, Slovenia, Italy, Norway, Ukraine, Switzerland, Slovakia and Luxembourg.[4]

Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_with_stolpersteine

About the author
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

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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 

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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.

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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.

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Sunday, July 25, 2021

Where are the Nobel Prize Winners' Statues, Walks, Monuments, Memorials and Museums? From Australia to the USA, worldwide.


Shimon Perez of Israel.

Menachem Begin of Israel.



Monument in Israel to Israeli Nobel Prize winners. The sign reads in Hebrew then English: The Nobel Prize Laureates Boulevard 
Rishon Le-Zion 



The bald Gustav Hertz. Won the Nobel Prize in 1925.



Einstein.

Richard Feynman, physicist, Nobel prize winner, investigator of the cause of the failure of Challenger.

Ernst Boris Chain, Discovered penicillin cured diseases.



Nobel prize winner Niels Bohr.


 As usual I am researching and writing several books. My latest two are Jewish Quotations and Quotations About Authors and Writing. following up on these will be Quoations for Christians, Muslims, Humanists, Agnostics and atheists. And all religions and none.

Whilst researching the Jewish Quotations (Disraeli, Einstein, Anne Frank) I had plenty to keep me busy with American Jewish writers, American Jews - then finally I thought of looking at Jewish Nobel Prize winners.

Of course, that led me to Nobel prize winners' Sayings.

Where are the Nobel Prize winners commemorated?

Australia

Nobel Peace Walk Wagga, Wagga

France

Caen Peace Museum, Normandy, includes a section on Nobel prize winners and peace.

Bust of Rene Cassin, who wrote the universal declaration of human rights for the UN, Nobel peace prize in 1958, memorial in Forbach, France. Photo by Christian Bohr.

Rene Cassin in Forbach, France.

Rene Cassin on a coin

A rather handsome bust of the man, Rene Cassin.


Marie Curie and Rene Cassin both lived in Paris, France.


Israel

 - Rishon LeZion - a street of raised markers

Macedonia

Monument to Mother Teresa in Struga.

Norway


Poland -

 Statue of Marie Curie

South Africa 

V and A waterfront, Cape town. Statues of the four South African winners. Nelson Mandela. Archbishop Desmond Tutu.


Sweden

Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm.

Alfred Nobel grave with obelisk.


Switzerland

Henri Dunant is honored in Geneva and elsewhere in Switzerland, where he founded the Red Cross. The Red Cross also has Nobel awards and statues.

International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva.


UK

Peace Museum, Bradford


Ukraine

Nobel Economic monument - glove shaped.


USA

Nobel monument, New York, inscribed the names of American winners.

Pearl Buck Birthplace museum in West Virgina and Pearl Buck House Museum in Pennsylvania.

National Civil Rights Museum, Tennessee, USA. Honours Martin Luther King Jnr, where he was killed.

Kellogg Museum in Minnesota.


 Then I found that the Jewish Nobel prize winners are honoured in a street in Israel. I thought, I can list those, later statues of Nobel prize winners, Jewish or otherwise.

The street is in Rishon LeZion, about five miles south of Tel Aviv. What I liked about Tel Aviv was the Bauhaus architecture, like art deco, as well as the sandy beach and several major museums, hotels at all prices including budget ones, a factory tour to a diamond factory, and old Jaffa.

But I missed out on Rishon LeZion.

I have been to Israel several times, staying in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and homes of friends and family. (I have also been to Jordan on a press trip, and to Morocco on my honeymoon and to Tunisia on package holidays.)

Next time I shall go to Rishon LeZion. In addition to the Nobel Prize winners' memorials, it has interesting landmarks.

More monuments, memorials and museums to see worldwide, in the USA, Theodore Roosevelt,  and Moscow.

Useful Websites

Nobel Monuments Worldwide

http://peace.maripo.com/p_nobel.htm

Israel

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

Jewish

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

Rene Cassin

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ReneCassin.JPG

About the Author

Angela spent her childhood and university years living in Edgware, North West London, England, surrounded by known Jews. In addition, years later she learned she was nearby to ones she never met, such as Anne Frank's father who was living around the corner, understandably incognito.

Friday, July 16, 2021

See and Sit With The Mr Bean Statue, Charlie Chaplin in London, and comedy connections worldwide



Leicester Square, London, England..Statue on a wooden seat. So you could be photographed sitting beside him, making funny faces.


Poland, Lodz, statue of Jewish pianist playing the Piano. Arthur Rubinstein.


Comedians and Comedy Shows, Musical Comedy
Charlie Chaplin
Friends
Gilbert & Sullivan
The Goons
Hancock
I love Lucy
Laurel & Hardy
Mae West
Mr Bean  - Rowan Atkinson
Victoria Wood

 Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mimes
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_statues

For your own comedy
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Colorful-Novelty-Casual-Striking-Pairs-Pizza/

https://oddsoxofficial.com/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/SIMPLOVE-Geometric-Earrings-Mismatched-Sensitive/dp/B07TGJDH9P/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=odd+earrings
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Finrezio-Bohemia-Asymmetric-Earrings-Crystal/dp/B07XX1Y2FL/ref=sr_1_13?dchild=1&keywords=odd+earrings&qid=1626431378&sr=8-13

About the Author



About the Author

Angela Lansbury, is a semi-retired travel writer still researching bucket list countries and seeking out the special, unusual, people, places,  landmarks, hotels, museums and trails, fabulous foods, recipes, clothes and online souvenir shopping.

Angela Lansbury is a member of Toastmasters International.

About the Author Angela Lansbury

The Author - Quick Quotations

Angela Lansbury B A Hons  is the author of ten books by regular publishers, plus another ten self-published books. 

About Angela The Speaker & Trainer

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President, Public Relations, Immediate Past President. VPPR
Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.
Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK

BHA
Past meetings have included Garen Tee on using story-telling in business, on 
bha.learncool.sg/meet/bha . 

Recent meetings of BHA included an educational session on using Powerpoint for posters.
Next BHA meetings, always first Wednesday evening, 7 pm Singapore time. Next meeting is  the third Saturday afternoon, June 19th 2pm Singapore time.  Inauguration of the new committee was by the incoming Director of S, plus a lively speech on teamwork.

Next meetings will be on these dates (unless a national holiday in Singapore or worldwide)
Themes and word of the day are tentative

2021
JULY - JUBILANT JULY
Theme/WOD Jubilant
WORKSHOPS & EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS (based on level one of Pathways)
1 Your first speech or role EASY ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Articles A and The, Plurals, Tenses, Pronunciation, Singlish)
2 CHOOSE YOUR PATH
Wed July 7th What Your Committee Can Do For You

Saturday 17th
July 4th American Independence Day.

2021 AUGUST - AWESOME AUGUST
1 Pathway Level 1 Introductory Speeches
2 Evaluations
Wed 4th
Sat 21

2021 SEPT - SUPER SEPTEMBER
Wed 1st
Sat 18th SPEECH CONTESTS
Humorous Speech Contest
Table Topics Contest

2021 OCT - ODD OCTOBER
Wed 6th
Sat 16th

2021 NOV - NOVELTY NOVEMBER
Wed 3rd
Sat 20th Wed
Diwali Hindu Festival of lights Nov 4th.
Nov 25th American Thanksgiving.
Hanukah starts 28 Dec 8 days until Dec 6. Jewish Festival of lights, celebrated by Jesus.

2021 DEC - DARLING DECEMBER
Wed  1st (Hanukah if not previous month. Festival foods.)
Sat 18th
Speech on 

JAN 2022 - JOYFUL JANUARY
Wed Jan 5th New beginning - forget the past
Sat 15 Long-term plans = for the future/Chinese New Year (CNY for short)

2022 FEB FUN FEBRUARY
Theme Love and romance - Chinese New Year
Feb 1st and 2nd are holidays - do we move this Feb 2nd meeting date?)

Wed 2nd (Valentine's Day Mon Feb 14)
Sat 19th

2022 MAR - MARVELLOUS MARCH
Theme
Wed 2nd
Sat 19
March 1st is Christian Pancake day. 

2022 APR - APRIL'S AIMS
Wed 6th
Sat 16th
Muslim Ramadan 1-30 April.
Jewish Passover (Seder meal=Last supper) April
 16

2022 MAY - MODERNISING MAY
Wed 4th
Sat 21

2022 JUN - JUBILANT JUNE
Wed 1st
Sat 18th

Jul 6, Jul 16, Aug 3, Aug 20, Sept 7, Sept 17, Oct 5, Oct 15, Nov 2, Nov 19, Dec 7, Dec 17.
Angela The Blogger 

Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing intermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:

See many varied posts such as the post on sculptor Tom Harvey.

Please share links to your favourite posts. 

TCA (A for Advanced club) is another advanced speakers' club which meets both online for visitors from worldwide and physically for walks, meals and socials in the Tampines area. Meetings are in the TC Community Club when Covid-19 regulations in Singapore allow it, but meanwhile come along to meetings online.

TCA meetings are on the fourth Tuesday evening of each month at 7 p.m Zoom room open to check your sound and online appearance and chit-chat, ready for a 7.15 pm start. I usually manage to attend meetings whether I am in Singapore or the UK.

Another club, totally online, is Singapore Online Dynamic, meeting 9 pm Singapore time on Fridays. I am a member of this club.

I am also a member of Senja-Cashew. When it meets physically it is in a convenient large complex containing a swimming pool beside a landmark lake next to a shopping complex. Right now it is online.

Once you join a club, your club's president will give you the opportunity to be informed of Toastmasters club meetings worldwide, especially those which have interesting workshops.cAbout the Author

Angela Lansbury, is a semi-retired travel writer still researching bucket list countries and seeking out the special, unusual, people, places,  landmarks, hotels, museums and trails, fabulous foods, recipes, clothes and online souvenir shopping.

Angela Lansbury is a member of Toastmasters International.

About the Author Angela Lansbury

The Author - Quick Quotations

Angela Lansbury B A Hons  is the author of ten books by regular publishers, plus another ten self-published books. 

About Angela The Speaker & Trainer

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President,  Public Relations, Immediate Past President. VPPR
Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.
Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK

BHA
Past meetings have included Garen Tee on using story-telling in business, on 
bha.learncool.sg/meet/bha . 

Recent meetings of BHA included an educational session on using Powerpoint for posters.
Next BHA meetings, always first Wednesday evening, 7 pm Singapore time. Next meeting is  the third Saturday afternoon, June 19th 2pm Singapore time.  Inauguration of the new committee was by the incoming Director of S, plus a lively speech on teamwork.

Next meetings will be on these dates (unless a national holiday in Singapore or worldwide)
Themes and word of the day are tentative

2021
JULY - JUBILANT JULY
Theme/WOD Jubilant
WORKSHOPS & EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS (based on level one of Pathways)
1 Your first speech or role EASY ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Articles A and The, Plurals, Tenses, Pronunciation, Singlish)
2 CHOOSE YOUR PATH
Wed July 7th What Your Committee Can Do For You
Saturday 17th
July 4th American Independence Day.

2021 AUGUST - AWESOME AUGUST
1 Pathway Level 1 Introductory Speeches
2 Evaluations
Wed 4th
Sat 21

2021 SEPT - SUPER SEPTEMBER
Wed 1st
Sat 18th SPEECH CONTESTS
Humorous Speech Contest
Table Topics Contest

2021 OCT - ODD OCTOBER
Wed 6th
Sat 16th

2021 NOV - NOVELTY NOVEMBER
Wed 3rd
Sat 20th Wed
Diwali Hindu Festival of lights Nov 4th.
Nov 25th American Thanksgiving.
Hanukah starts 28 Dec 8 days until Dec 6. Jewish Festival of lights, celebrated by Jesus.

2021 DEC - DARLING DECEMBER
Wed  1st (Hanukah if not previous month. Festival foods.)
Sat 18th
Speech on 

JAN 2022 - JOYFUL JANUARY
Wed Jan 5th New beginning - forget the past
Sat 15 Long-term plans = for the future/Chinese New Year (CNY for short)

2022 FEB FUN FEBRUARY
Theme Love and romance - Chinese New Year
Feb 1st and 2nd are holidays - do we move this Feb 2nd meeting date?)

Wed 2nd (Valentine's Day Mon Feb 14)
Sat 19th

2022 MAR - MARVELLOUS MARCH
Theme
Wed 2nd
Sat 19
March 1st is Christian Pancake day. 

2022 APR - APRIL'S AIMS
Wed 6th
Sat 16th
Muslim Ramadan 1-30 April.
Jewish Passover (Seder meal=Last supper) April
 16

2022 MAY - MODERNISING MAY
Wed 4th
Sat 21

2022 JUN - JUBILANT JUNE
Wed 1st
Sat 18th

Jul 6, Jul 16, Aug 3, Aug 20, Sept 7, Sept 17, Oct 5, Oct 15, Nov 2, Nov 19, Dec 7, Dec 17.
Angela The Blogger 

Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing intermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:

See many varied posts such as the post on sculptor Tom Harvey.

Please share links to your favourite posts. 

You also get access to the online magazine. And the club will appoint a mentor to guide you through your first three speeches and plan your year so you can complete a Pathway suited to your personal interests. I chose the basic Presentation mastery path to start. Next I did the Engaging Humor path. Now I am onto the leadership paths such as Visionary Communication.

I am also a coach for Nee Soon South.

All the clubs worldwide have just handed over to the new team from July 1st, all full of enthusiasm, seeking new members, sometimes with a space for a committee member if you are job-hunting, or climbing the corporate ladder, just the thing to add to your c.v.

Toastmasters has made links with the Rotary club organization. So if you are interested in Rotary clubs, you might investigate both.