What image does your picture convey?

  What do your posts say? Is there a consistent message? Who are you aiming at? If a picture paints a thusand words, what does a picture say.

Let's look at two pictures of me. One shows me with a glass of Prosecco.

If I am reminding myself of what to order, that is fine.

What about the image? Prosecco is fun. Romantic. Glamorous.

I have another glass showing a pint of water melon juice.

This has entirely different messages. Health. Sensible.

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 on bha.learncool.sg  

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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Where To See Statues Of Gandhi

I delivered an opening speech to a Toastmasters International meeting featuring a quotation by Gandhi.

Gandhi's Quotes

• Be the change you want to see.
• Earth provides enough for every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
• You do not know who is important to you until you lose them.
• An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
• Happiness is when what you think, say and do are in harmony.

Attributed to Gandhi:
The customer is not an interruption of our work, he is the purpose of it. A longer version reads:

• A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. 
• He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
•  He is not an interruption of our work. He is the purpose of it. 
• He is not an outsider of our business. He is part of it. 
• We are not doing him a favour by serving him. He is doing us a favour by giving us the opportunity to do so.”

Plaque displaying one of Gandhi's quotes on rumour

Agnelvishal - Own work

"Do not listen to rumour. If you do, do not believe it." Very relevant today where fake news is prevalent.

Gandhi's Statues

Flag of India on a postage stamp.

India
Bangalore, at Vidhana Soudha

Author

Moheen Reeyad  (1990–)

Brazil
Sao Paulo

Canada
York University

Spain
Madrid

Statue of Gandhi, Madrid, Spain.

York university, Canada. Bust of Gandhi.




Mahatma Gandhi at Praça Túlio Fontoura, São Paulo, Brazil.

Sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi by Gautam Pal, São Paulo, Brazil - bronze.

Summary[edit]

Description	Feita em bronze, a obra de Gautam Pal foi doada pela Índia como reconhecimento ao trabalho da Associação Palas Athena na divulgação do pensamento de Gandhi no Brasil. Com 1,80 de altura e 400 quilos, ficará na praça Túlio Fontoura, numa clareira de um bosque de eucaliptos, entre a Assembléia Legislativa e o parque Ibirapuera, onde será criado o Espaço Gandhi. ( Fonte Folha Online 13/08/2002 - 09h43 )
Date	16 December 2006, 02:05:50
Source	Own work
Author	Sérgio Valle Duarte

Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/08/02/gandhi-customer/
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http://www.airindia.in/
Air India is a member of Star Alliance, as is Singapore Airlines.
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Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. See earlier post on Gandhi. Please share links to your favourite posts.

Horrors or happiness? Do gloomy stories and ghoulish places upset you? Cheer up.

Oh No
I can see why you would not buy a house where a murder happened last week, unless the price was low. You would need to clean it up and sightseers could be irritating. I can also see that you might want to wash clothes bought secondhand. However, I was impatient when I read that somebody said they could not keep old crockery and clothes from ancestors because of the bad vibes.

Old buildings
Let's look at this logically, and carry it to the extreme. If you don't want anything associated with anybody who has died, you could never preserve a building over 100 years of age.   You would have to rebuild all old hotels and office buildings. All museums would be shut.Hospitals
It does make sense to limit visitors to hospitals to cut down on infection, brougth in or taken out. However, you need to balance the benefits. If you are over-sensitive, you could not go into a hospital to get an x-ray because of all the bad vibes. Doctors and nurses could not to their jobs because every hospital has seen at least one body.

Frankly, every hospital has a morgue hidden on the premises. (Admittedly hard to find. the word morgue does not appear on the hospital signposts.

I drove all around Barnet hospital trying to find the morgue to see the body of my late uncle and went back to reception a second time to get directions.

I used to wonder how nurses and doctors manage to carry on.

Why undertakers are sometimes seen joking around and acting apparently disrespectfully to the dead in coffins. There are various ways of coping:

1 Ignore the situation.
Don't stop to read the inscriptions. Don't think about it.

2 Note It but don't dwell on it.
Note it briefly, then quickly move on.

3 Shrug
That's life.

4 Laugh

Treat it as a joke. (Hence the WWII wartime songs: 'They scraped him off the tarmac like a pound of strawberry jam ...')

5 Concentrate On Helping
War Memorials And Plaques
If you allow yourself to be worried by every sign, you would need to keep out of town centres because of the war memorials.

If you cannot cope with mentions of deaths and disasters, you cannot send your children to traditional schools because they have wall plaques mentioning of those who died in WWI and WWII.

Travel Trouble
Stations and Trains
Don't go into the underground stations.
Don't go on trains. They go through level crossings where there have been accidents.
In the USA I was upset to read on a long bridge that people has lost their lives buildings. But the same applied to the Channel tunnel. In fact construction has the highest fatality rate of any profession or trade.

I have since made a mental note and found that almost every project I have visited has a memorial somewhere.

Cities
Avoid all cities, especially London and Europe. They have Roman remains and were rebuilt over bomb sites. The same applies to many cities such as East London, Coventry, German cities, Poland, etc.

Any house over 100 years old probably had somebody die in it. Either the old folk died at home. Or the mothers died at home in childbirth. Did I mention the under fives who died?

Famous Homes and Homes Of The Famous
Don't visit the Bronte house in Haworth. The writers all died.

Indoors
Don't visit friends with leather furniture and don't sit on leather chairs in hotels and restaurants and airports.

Natural Objects
Don't touch a shell because it's the house of a sea creature now dead.

Don't go in a wooden building. Don't use a pencil or paper.

Enough of this nonsense. The world has been around thousands of years and thousands of people and animals and plants have died all over it.

Caution
There are places to be avoided, accident black spots.

Positive Thinking
However, having taken all necessary precautions, no point constantly worrying that every item you touch or place you visit might have negative associations.

Plenty of people keenly travel to the WWI and WWII battle sites.  The Titanic exhibition in Ireland. Forewarned is forearmed.

Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

Useful Websites
https://www.gobear.com/sg/travel-insurance

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Why and where to see Klimt Painting and learn to paint

Painting by Klimt currently in a gallery in New York city, new York state, USA. From Wikipedia.

APPRECIATING KLIMT
On Facebook I saw a pretty painting by Klimpt.

When I draw or paint as an amateur my struggle is to observe and create a likeness. Klimt is at the next stage, to create something beautiful in a new and unique style which reminds the onlooker of something pleasing. 

His method is to brighten a dull scene from the grey hut, grey tree trunks, dark green leaves, blue jeans. He creates a confetti effect, contrasting circles of bright colour. His bright contrasts are white, yellow and red. 

LEARNING PAINTINGAt a painting course this summer (2017, Susan Allison at Writer's Holiday, their next holiday being at Fishguard in Wales, February 2018) one of our first lessons was watching her demonstrate making a dark background and leaving a contrast of white or yellow in the middle for a sunny day, a sunset, a tunnel, whatever.

Klimt also makes a person the centre of attention, bright spring or summer flowers scattered up the body.  Colour creates a halo effect around the head, and brightness of the clothes.

Only on second glance did I realise that it's not one picture but a video, a sequence of pictures.

In many of the Klimt pictures one person is cradling or protecting themselves or another. They smile or faintly smile. But flowers surround them.

Only on second glance did I see in the first picture the crucifix dwarfed by the happiness. We give flowers to a bride. We take flowers to a funeral to add colour and scent, traditionally to conceal smells, create perfume to soothe and brighten the room.

CREATING MOOD AND HAPPINESSI find that if I write too much about sad subjects, or create or see have too much sad music or painting, it depresses me. Colours lifts my mood. If you want to keep yourself and others happy, acknowledge their sadness but add as much colour as you can and spread happiness.

SEEING PAINTINGS
If you want to see more Klimt paintings and read about the artist, go to Wiki. You might also be interested in films about the paintings:

On August 7, 2006, Christie's auction house announced it was handling the sale of the remaining four works by Klimt that were recovered by Maria Altmann and her co-heirs after their long legal battle against Austria (see Republic of Austria v. Altmann). Maria Altmann's fight to regain her family's paintings has been the subject of a number of documentary films, including Adele's Wish.^[27] Her struggle also became the subject of the dramatic film the Woman in Gold, a movie inspired by Stealing Klimt, the documentary featuring Maria Altmann herself.^[28] The portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II was sold at auction in November 2006 for $88 million, the third-highest priced piece of art at auction at the time.^[29][30] 

WHERE TO SEE PAINTINGS
USA
The New York picture of Adele, woman in gold, 

AUSTRIA
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/austria/articles/the-6-best-places-to-see-gustav-klimt-s-art/ (The New York picture of Adele, woman in gold, plus lots of paintings in Vienna, all pictures, which pictures of the places to visit.)

The Kiss in Belvedere Palais, Vienna, Austria, which has the world's largest collection of Klimt paintings.
http://www.klimt-foundation.com/en/klimt-info/works/austria


UK
National Gallery of Art, Trafalgar Square, London, England.
https://www.nationalgallery.co.uk

PAINTING COURSES
http://www.writersholiday.net 

BUYING COPIES OF KLIMT PAINTINGS

https://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/products/portrait-of-hermine-gallia-print/

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Travel Information
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Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, caricaturist, author and speaker. I have several more posts on murals and art and destinations around the world and learning German and other languages. Please share links to your favourite posts.