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Noël Coward & Margaret Leighton / sound of the theatre piece

Julie Kertesz: On Becoming a Stand-up Comedienne at 77 Years Young

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".

Tulips in the morning

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.

Eleanna"s walks

Now I am with Eleanna, who came to visit London from Athens.

This is one of the pictures she has taken while walking in Brick lane with Janice. I do like it a lot!Http://flickr.com/photos/Eleanna Kounoupa/

Feast of European Speakers

Top Toastmasters and a Feast of International Speaking Saturday 12 April

On Saturday 12 April London Toastmasters Division B has a double treat for you.

The morning: A Feast of International Speaking

The afternoon: The Division B International Speech Contest and the Division B Evaluation Contest.

  You can read the lastest press release here:Download Celebrate Diversity Press Release - April 2014

In the morning 

Talented International Speech Contestant, Award Winner, Keynote Speaker Olivia Schofield. ‘A Thief, A Failure, A Fabulous Future’. An English Toastmaster working in Berlin comes to London.

Mel Kelly from Munich. Winner of Continental Europe District Humorous Contest will deliver a speech entitled:'Sealed with a Kiss’, enjoy his Irish humour.

Carsten Wendt from Bruxelles, a Humorous Contest winner will deliver: ‘I am not a Latin lover’. he is German

Freddie Daniells, UK. The ever-popular Toastmasters ambassador takes up the topic, ‘Diversity of Goals’ and 

Jakub Pawlowski our smiling dare-devil from Poland, will tackle headlong the subject: ‘Diversity of Clubs’.

Neglected blog

I begun blogging 9 years ago, february 2005, and blogged day by day - in the French "il y a de la vie après 70 ans"

Yes, there is life after 70 as I tried to prove to myself first, the others too. I did.

Then I opened a Retroblog to publish my diaries from 10 to 60 years old. And a photoblog with one picture a day.

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!

More I told, less I wrote here.

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.

Should I close this one?

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 !

Thames path

Thames path, a set on Flickr.

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

The perfect moment

We 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.

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:

"there is no such thing as perfect job, perfect family or perfect life, but there are perfect moments in life."

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.

Cake for gram

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

hen she asked me if I would like a chocolate cake? Yeah! With nuts?

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!"

She makes great cakes.

Remembrance day in UK

This is each year, before the St. John's Church in Blackheath, London. Remembering all those who fall while serving their country.

A minute of silence, poppies on the dress, veterans gathering and speaking.

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.

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."

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.

Today, I think of him. Grandpa Emil.

Trafalgar Square

This is by Richard, Waterford_Man from Flickr, I hope I will go tomorrow to see it during the Diwali.

Now you can embed from Facebook: just discovered!

Post by Julie Kertesz.

hospital entrance, another fall

If I remember it well, I was there last autumn too, and with bigger surgery, so relative this year was not so bad.

If I was apprehensive in fact was remembering the other times.

Margo, gone

Margo, gone, a set on Flickr.
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.

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That woman is a succes

The new Toastmasters International President speech in Cincinatti

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 "letting go":

when I let go what I am I can become what I may be
when I let go what I have I receive what I need
when I feel most destroyed I am about to grow 

… and I made the decision to turn back to Taiwan
there,
I had a blind date with Toastmasters.

Now he has been in Toastmasters more then 20 years. 

I lost my way

That was for the better: I lost my way.

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.

Firmly believed, there is where I have to go.

Nooooo.

The open Mic Red Bus Depford was on a parallel street: Depford Church street.
But looking for it, got me interesting new pictures!

It is, often if not always, worth to get lost!

And behind the small restaurant pizzeria, where the comedy gig was I discovered this:

Have to go back soon! Fascinating Depford, when one looks deeper...

In the London "TUBE"

Sometimes it is easy to walk.

Often returning in the evening the corridors of the tube seem interminable.

I took this photo one of those days, expressing my feeling and also stopping a moment at the same time.

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.

Taxi Passing In BW

Discovering the different facettes of HR photos and or post processing.

Stunning, how much you can play with the same take and make so different looking photos!

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.