tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21423297128220333012024-03-05T07:20:31.709+00:00Julie in LondonArrived from Paris at age 73, I love London diversity, warmth and opportunities, soon 80.Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.comBlogger1536125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-13491713320066939942016-05-07T08:03:00.001+01:002016-05-07T08:03:07.738+01:00Bernard Shaw - The Apple Cart [Full Al...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/80eKNE9sVpk" width="459"></iframe><br />
Noël Coward & Margaret Leighton / sound of the theatre piece<div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-58199970745197511192015-09-29T09:55:00.001+01:002015-09-29T09:55:12.630+01:00Julie Kertesz: On Becoming a Stand-up Comedienne at 77 Years Young<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gmzh_qqV5ro" width="480"></iframe><br />
There is a long time I did not write here, but if anyone comes bye, here is a film about me, the last that was finished recently. "Everybody has a story to tell".<div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-52361181312330163422015-05-21T08:48:00.001+01:002015-05-21T08:48:14.492+01:00Tulips in the morning<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="640" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/17922958251/in/album-72157652776102029/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="640"></iframe><br />
tulips as the sun shines partially on the table of the living room, the ray obscures the mess around it, remaining in the shade and the tulips are illuminated giving them more texture. One can here go from one to other, and eventually chose which you prefer.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-11132339533775168782015-05-19T08:01:00.005+01:002015-05-19T08:01:55.526+01:00Eleanna"s walks<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now I am with Eleanna</span>, who came to visit London from Athens.</div>
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This is one of the pictures she has taken while walking in Brick lane with Janice. I do like it a lot!<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/Eleanna%20Kounoupa/" target="_blank">Http://flickr.com/photos/Eleanna Kounoupa/</a></div>
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0Brick Lane, London, UK51.5210387 -0.07171500000004016351.511158699999996 -0.091885000000040157 51.5309187 -0.051545000000040163tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-61187116075769133002014-04-08T09:11:00.002+01:002014-04-08T09:11:35.917+01:00Feast of European Speakers<h3 class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 1px 0px 10px;">
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On Saturday 12 April London Toastmasters Division B has a double treat for you.</div>
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<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The morning</span>:</strong> A Feast of International Speaking</div>
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<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The afternoon</span>:</strong> The Division B International Speech Contest and the Division B Evaluation Contest.</div>
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<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrate-diversity-division-b-workshops-contests-tickets-10708909637?ref=ebtnebregn" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Eventbrite - "Celebrate Diversity" Division B Workshops & Contests" src="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/custombutton?eid=10708909637" style="border: 0px;" /></a> You can read the lastest press release here:<span class="asset asset-generic at-xid-6a00e0099745b7883301a3fce84587970b img-responsive"><a href="http://www.thelondonspeaker.com/files/celebrate-diversity-press-release---april-2014.docx" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">Download Celebrate Diversity Press Release - April 2014</a></span></div>
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Talented International Speech Contestant, Award Winner, Keynote Speaker <strong>Olivia Schofield</strong>. ‘<em>A Thief, A Failure, A Fabulous Future’</em>. An English Toastmaster working in Berlin comes to London.</div>
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<strong>Mel Kelly</strong> from Munich. Winner of Continental Europe District Humorous Contest will deliver a speech entitled:<em>'Sealed with a Kiss’, enjoy his Irish humour.</em></div>
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<strong>Carsten Wendt </strong>from Bruxelles, a Humorous Contest winner will deliver: ‘<em>I am not a Latin lover’. he is German</em></div>
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<strong>Freddie Daniells</strong>, UK. The ever-popular Toastmasters ambassador takes up the topic, <em>‘Diversity of Goals’ and </em></div>
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Jakub<strong> Pawlowski </strong>our smiling dare-devil from Poland, will tackle headlong the subject: ‘<em>Diversity of Clubs’.</em></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-11630072434254828032014-03-20T09:07:00.000+00:002014-03-20T09:07:40.561+00:00Neglected blogI begun blogging 9 years ago, february 2005, and blogged day by day - in the French "il y a de la vie après 70 ans" <br />
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Yes, there is life after 70 as I tried to prove to myself first, the others too. I did.<br />
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Then I opened a Retroblog to publish my diaries from 10 to 60 years old. And a photoblog with one picture a day.<br />
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When I decided to come and live in London, I opened this blog, also to become used to write in English. I never dreamed at that time, I will stay on London stages to tell about my life! <br />
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More I told, less I wrote here.<br />
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Opening a blog about communication and my stories, that become my main English blog. Then arrived Facebook, where many follow me not only day by day, but sometimes, minute by minute.<br />
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Should I close this one?<br />
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Too much time on web, the spring arrived and I should also come out to walk "smell the roses" take photos of flowers and people and 'see them" and even swim !<div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-90369625143816582972013-12-20T09:22:00.001+00:002013-12-20T09:22:22.446+00:00Thames path<div style="padding: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; width: 500px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11458251235/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="Thames path, December 4:30 pm" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2854/11458251235_50079309d0_s.jpg" alt="Thames path, December 4:30 pm" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11454375756/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="Blackfriers, Thames path closed" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3740/11454375756_2df0d2149a_s.jpg" alt="Blackfriers, Thames path closed" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11454372174/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="Exit Blackfriers" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3710/11454372174_4a213fddd5_s.jpg" alt="Exit Blackfriers" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11454395284/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="St Paul Cathedral" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2853/11454395284_b8a0a095b1_s.jpg" alt="St Paul Cathedral" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11454343585/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="Mileneum bridge" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7375/11454343585_21836aba56_s.jpg" alt="Mileneum bridge" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11454463676/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="Near Milleneum Bridge" style="display: block; padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5539/11454463676_b8bb6d5e8b_s.jpg" alt="Near Milleneum Bridge" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><br clear="all"/><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11454542563/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="Milleneum bridge" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2868/11454542563_aa0ac44054_s.jpg" alt="Milleneum bridge" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11454543753/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="Thames path, from Milleneum bridge" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3803/11454543753_3f8d225fd9_s.jpg" alt="Thames path, from Milleneum bridge" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11454367175/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="Thames path begins" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3721/11454367175_d89b01c0c3_s.jpg" alt="Thames path begins" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11454373935/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="Accross the river" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5549/11454373935_4e5e4ed9e9_s.jpg" alt="Accross the river" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11453705824/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="Thames path" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7449/11453705824_c26e4632e4_s.jpg" alt="Thames path" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11454747226/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="detail accross the river" style="display: block; padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7330/11454747226_10023e2cda_s.jpg" alt="detail accross the river" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><br clear="all"/><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11309424375/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="The loose canon pub's street, night in London" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2847/11309424375_2fdeb444da_s.jpg" alt="The loose canon pub's street, night in London" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11458270834/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="Tower bridge" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5515/11458270834_f98f839dbb_s.jpg" alt="Tower bridge" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11458280984/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="The tower" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5485/11458280984_d356a95e7d_s.jpg" alt="The tower" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11458286745/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="Passing under the bridge" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7334/11458286745_8d8c361763_s.jpg" alt="Passing under the bridge" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11458405526/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="Bridge colours" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5516/11458405526_5e4ef3c821_s.jpg" alt="Bridge colours" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11458454403/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="Under bridge" style="display: block; padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3669/11458454403_7761a3b3f8_s.jpg" alt="Under bridge" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><br clear="all"/><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11458395183/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="Approaching Tower bridge" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7430/11458395183_de1631ed7c_s.jpg" alt="Approaching Tower bridge" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/11458374436/in/set-72157638831453793/" title="From the Thames path, lights & colors" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3807/11458374436_ca147f2dcf_s.jpg" alt="From the Thames path, lights & colors" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><div style="padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><div style="padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><div style="padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><div style="padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"></div><br clear="all"/></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/sets/72157638831453793/">Thames path</a>, a set on Flickr.</p></div><p>after the sun set down and with a bit of rain but not much, I caught finally the Thames path at the Millennium Bridge - walked till the Tower Bridge</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-79639504111792321912013-12-07T07:12:00.002+00:002013-12-07T07:17:29.647+00:00The perfect momentWe never forget that perfect moment! Those rest embedded in us. Even when there are not followed by what we did think at that time. In me, even an hour when I waited for someone who never arrived remains as a very happy hour. And a day of expecting a perfect week, remains also a joyful memory. Of course also those happy hours or days, when all was absolutely wander full. And lately, the happy moments with my last love: the audience. <br />
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Yesterday, I had seen a movie on Netscape. At the end, the voice of the heroine, after a happy moment, summarise the premise of the film:<br />
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"there is no such thing as perfect job, perfect family or perfect life, but there are perfect moments in life."<br />
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So true. Let us make, take, enjoy, our life's perfect moments. Dare to enjoy and live them. As the movie suggest, make, at least once in life crazy things. I would say dare to go 'out of our comfort zone' more then once. At least, relationships. Creative endeavours. New things at old age.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-55181425742266519412013-12-01T09:32:00.001+00:002013-12-01T09:32:20.456+00:00Cake for gram<div style="float: left; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/9385140898/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3760/9385140898_d86da8ef68_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /></div>I am a really happy grandma! My grand daughter just told her father: "if you go to see gram only an hour later this morning, I could bake a cake for her!" T<br /><br />hen she asked me if I would like a chocolate cake? Yeah! With nuts? <br /><br />Wonderful! Perhaps, not so good for my weight, I thought, not told, but YES YES Of course, "I am ready to wait one more hour!" <br /><br />She makes great cakes.<br clear="all" /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-64590659971878288052013-11-10T17:30:00.001+00:002013-11-10T17:30:05.939+00:00Remembrance day in UK<div style="float: left; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/10777371084/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3737/10777371084_3f6af7c051_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /></div>This is each year, before the St. John's Church in Blackheath, London. Remembering all those who fall while serving their country.<br /><br />A minute of silence, poppies on the dress, veterans gathering and speaking.<br /><br />My grandfather was a veteran of World War 1 and wounded for all his life. Alas, it made him also very irritable for his family.<br /><br />He did like me. I remember, when he came to see me and told me "Ask any question and I will try to answer. If I can not, I will look in the books to find it for you." <br /><br />There was no web yet, more then 70 years ago. But I learned to ask and I learned that one can find answers in books. <br /><br />Today, I think of him. Grandpa Emil.<br clear="all" /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-9827651310863976942013-11-02T21:43:00.001+00:002013-11-02T21:43:51.078+00:00Trafalgar Square<div style="float: left; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/waterford_man/10633073534/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2833/10633073534_786456f0d0_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /></div>This is by Richard, Waterford_Man from Flickr, I hope I will go tomorrow to see it during the Diwali.<br clear="all" /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-37491685934075418762013-11-01T14:47:00.002+00:002013-11-01T14:47:38.328+00:00Now you can embed from Facebook: just discovered!<div id="fb-root"></div><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script><br />
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If I remember it well, I was there last autumn too, and with bigger surgery, so relative this year was not so bad.<br />
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If I was apprehensive in fact was remembering the other times.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-59486979515384793862013-10-01T08:55:00.001+01:002013-10-01T09:01:28.106+01:00Margo, gone<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/sets/72157636055716136/">Margo, gone</a>, a set on Flickr.<br />
My neighbour remains only in our memory, still difficult to understand that she will not come and will not see and speak with her again.<br />
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He begins telling stories of his life and how all of his problems lead him to Toastmasters (and his second wife). Towards 5.30 minutes he cites the Daoist paradox of "<b>letting go":</b><br />
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<i>when I let go what I am I can become what I may be</i><br />
<i>when I let go what I have I receive what I need</i><br />
<i>when I feel most destroyed I am about to grow </i></blockquote>
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Now he has been in Toastmasters more then 20 years. </div>
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That was for the better: I lost my way.<br />
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I strolled in Depford 4 years ago, then 3 years ago. Found many interesting images to take with me from it's street. And this small restaurant, in a train off Depford High Street.<br />
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Firmly believed, there is where I have to go. <br />
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Nooooo.<br />
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The open Mic Red Bus Depford was on a parallel street: Depford Church street.<br />
But looking for it, got me interesting new pictures!<br />
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It is, often if not always, worth to get lost!<br />
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And behind the small restaurant pizzeria, where the comedy gig was I discovered this:<br />
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Have to go back soon! Fascinating Depford, when one looks deeper...<div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-8352430392432272412013-08-19T08:17:00.001+01:002013-08-19T08:17:54.958+01:00In the London "TUBE"<div style="float: left; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/3906808528/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2644/3906808528_d077586592_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /></div>Sometimes it is easy to walk. <br /><br />Often returning in the evening the corridors of the tube seem interminable.<br /><br />I took this photo one of those days, expressing my feeling and also stopping a moment at the same time.<br /><br />I do not walk or exercise enough, true. But considering my age I am fairly active. My legs disturb me less in fact then the first years in London. So, I am happy after all.<br clear="all" /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-43894633322406486462013-08-09T10:05:00.001+01:002013-08-09T10:05:38.982+01:00Taxi Passing In BW<div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-right: 12px;">
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Discovering the different facettes of HR photos and or post processing.<br />
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Stunning, how much you can play with the same take and make so different looking photos! <br />
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Also a new App that takes three photos of a place and combines them to give better rendering of the high and low lightened parts.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-65061976865475583682013-08-08T12:34:00.001+01:002013-08-08T12:34:35.712+01:00Studying in the station<div style="float: left; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/9462609511/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3768/9462609511_5117e769b7_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /></div>On the platform between East Waterloo and Waterloo train station, she set down to study. Read, but with a pencil, noting at the same time. <br /><br />Loved to look, and did not disturb her.<br /><br />Took three shots, one after other. From near, from afar, and also another angle.<br /><br />People reading fascinates me as much as books. <br /><br />Yesterday, at a meeting, from 20 people, three told 'I do not read' or 'did not read last 6 month'. Well I read probably 60 books, paper and kindle since then.<br clear="all" /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-72343126074605629342013-07-22T07:36:00.001+01:002013-07-22T07:42:02.937+01:00Future Aspirations<div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-right: 12px;">
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New goals or aspirations, new directions ?<br />
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Continuing, finding new dreams.<br />
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Weather I achieve them or not, I can try.<br />
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Speak better, find a message, deliver the message so many could be inspired by it.<br />
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Judy Carte's book, DVD's and perhaps even coaching, and all I can learn to become better, can lead eventually towards a TEDx speech. Not a political one in Parliement, but there are many others nowadays. So perhaps, it is not such an 'impossible dream' as it seems for the moment. At any way, dreams keep alive.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-2060922635955655112013-07-21T08:18:00.001+01:002013-07-21T08:21:55.423+01:00Write, read / speak, listenRecently, I stumbled on two books by Adler, written at 40 years of distance. One about 'how to read' : different ways of reading in 1940.<br />
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Skimming, absorbing, active participative reading. There is so many kind!<br />
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Even when I read for enjoyment 'only' it is never only that, even then I like to read with a pen in my hand or underscore on kindle, the passages I like, and sometimes, writing passages I particularly enjoy in my notebook.<br />
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Ten years ago, I was reading picking out the English words I did not understand, nowadays more expressions I want to remember. Later, I used to look up, make a list, try to learn by playing and putting the words in some other context, phrase. And of course, these days, to use the expressions in one of the stories I tell.<br />
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All my life, at least from 7 years on, I lived with books and stories they told, wisdom they told me directly or defused in a tale. Some from far away still stick with me as do my great grandmothers family stories. Or my fathers, like I lived them, was there.<br />
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It was never one way only! I participated, felt I was there.<br />
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Adler, wrote 40 years later, wrote about the importance of listening. Speaking / listening. Really communicating. Did not read yet the beginning of that one, his books are a bit heavy to read, but I am sure there is wisdom to ponder in them. For the moment, the importance of listening, while we speak, or while we participate to a talk. And also, the difference between writing and giving a speech.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-79019336025634299072013-07-06T07:51:00.001+01:002013-07-06T07:51:05.927+01:00Margo healing<div style="float: left; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/9215826558/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2826/9215826558_692659ebe5_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /></div>Take the picture here, with the flowers, Margo told me. <br /><br />She looks so much better then three years ago!<br /><br />Her cancer did not disappear, but instead of medical treatment, being active and feeling well in her skin, helps her a lot more.<br /><br />I am so happy for her - and have high hopes for myself. Laughter, comedy will help me fight and put it farther away, too. Whatever comes.<br clear="all" /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Blog de Julie Kertesz - images http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142329712822033301.post-27542174851080188052013-07-04T10:03:00.001+01:002013-07-04T10:03:14.444+01:00Speak & Deliver - A Public Speaking Blog For the Speaking Public: What Came First, the Story or the Point?<a href="http://speakanddeliver.blogspot.com/2013/07/what-came-first-story-or-point.html?spref=bl">Speak & Deliver - A Public Speaking Blog For the Speaking Public: What Came First, the Story or the Point?</a>: "I have this great story - I just have to find a way to tell it!" There are many phrases that make me internally cringe when...<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>"I have this great story - I just have to find a way to tell it!"</b><br /><br />There are many phrases that make me internally cringe when I hear them from a speaking client - and this is in my Top 5 - it's right up there with 'I know you suggested I do this, but my MOM says..." Invariable, the story has nothing to do with the speech they are trying to build, but they are determined to shoehorn it in, because it's cute, funny, or personally important, but not pertinent in anyway to what they are already trying to say in their speaking life.<br /><br />Make no mistake - I love stories. Stories are crucial for connecting with the audiences. Stories will be what people remember. Stories are, oh, forget it, I have no idea what metaphor to use this morning. Suffice it to say, stories are important, and I wouldn't want to listen to a speaker who didn't use them.<br /><br />But no matter how great your story is, if it doesn't match the point you're trying to get across, it's nothing more than a diversion, and in the worst cases,<b> can completely derail your speech.</b><br /><br />Because most of us love to hear and tell stories, this is an easy trap to fall into. When we're just learning to speak, we're told - "Just get up there and tell a story".<br /><br />Toastmasters, much as I love them, fall prey to this easily, as they are encouraged to come up with a different speech every month, which puts them into a position of starting their speech with a story, and then, if they're really good at what they do, finding the point within the story to provoke their audience.<br /><br /><b>When you're learning, this is a fine approach.</b><br /><br />When you're ready to get out into the real world, it's a trap. You can't get in front of an audience and just string together a few stories and hope to get by and speaking skills and charm. They might say they loved it, and they might have actually enjoyed the presentation, but it doesn't mean anything you've said, or anything about YOU, will stick with them beyond the next 30 minutes.<br /><br />Building a speech for the real world means having a real point to share. Granted, it may start with a story you want to tell - surviving abuse, climbing Everest, passing the 400th level of Candy Crush -<b> but ultimately it must have a takeaway point</b> - a spine on which the muscle of your stories can always attach.<br /><br />Which means that the 'story you just have to find a way to tell' may not work. I don't care how funny it is. I don't care if it makes me cry. All your audience really cares about is 'does this matter' - otherwise known as, 'why is this important to me, or the reason I'm here?'</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Be on the lookout, always, for stories. File them away. Look for points within them. Identify which audiences they might resonate with, and consider alternate speeches you might create for them. Just don't marry yourself to the idea of using them just because you love to tell them.<br /><br />If you're building a keynote - start with your point. Then support the point with stories. Even if your next speech is 'Organize Your Speech' in the basic Toastmasters manual, consider starting with your point, and building the speech around it, finding supporting material from your life and the world around you - it'll be a tougher exercise than simply ranting about your day, but you, and your audience, will get more out of it when all is said and done.<br /><br />And even if you are sitting there saying - 'But Rich, I have a great story to tell' - STOP. Tell me why you want to tell it, and more importantly why I need to hear it. Does it support the message you're already delivering? Does it have a point that is important enough to build a new speech around? Or is it simply an indulgence, hanging there, tempting you to take your audience on a detour from which they may never return?<br /><br />Find your point, then your story, and you'll be well on your way as you Speak....and Deliver!<br /></span></div>
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