tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65778471535093266642024-03-13T02:54:49.273+01:00Signed by AngeAngehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.comBlogger234125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-18635850225877182612020-11-01T21:57:00.002+01:002020-11-01T21:58:30.647+01:00Investing in your leadership – why banking on yourself is essential, especially in the middle of a crisis.Investing in your leadership – why banking on yourself is essential, especially in the middle of a crisis.: What are you worth? I don’t mean in terms of net worth. I mean fundamentally. How much value do you place in yourself and your capacity to create opportunity and possibility for those in your care (your partner, your family, your team and your organisation)? What is your relationship to Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-48988430762999565402013-01-02T16:39:00.001+01:002013-01-02T16:39:19.423+01:00J'ai déménagé. I've moved
Au revoir Blogger. On s'est bien amusé ensemble
Bye Bye Blogger. We've had some great times
Maintenant vous pouvez me retrouver en français sur Word Press.
http://fr.signedbyange.com
Venez me voir pour un fou rire et un souffle d'inspiration.
Now you can find me in English on Word Press
http://www.signedbyange.com
Do come and visit for more inspiration and the odd burst of Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-86014340827911458492012-10-16T16:30:00.000+02:002012-10-16T16:30:19.003+02:00The Guest House: La Maison d'Hôtes. Rumi
For English it's up top: Pour le Français c'est en bas
Two cultures living in Harmony ;-)
I've been busy faffing around with some scribbles. It feels good to get the inks and paints over my fingers again after so many months off. My fingers are cold from typing at the keys of this keyboard, something that rarely happens when I hold a 'plume' - unless I'm outside braving the elements in Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-63393736707036503642012-09-11T00:51:00.001+02:002012-09-11T00:52:41.697+02:00Dropping the sparkly things. Keeping the sparkle. V.O. Non sous titré <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-86085457420007637992012-08-19T00:44:00.002+02:002012-08-19T00:44:24.188+02:00Curieux et de plus en plus curieux! 10 minutes pour créer n'importe quoi!
Coucou possums.
Je voulais traduire tout ce que je venais d'écrire dans mon dernier message en Anglais pour vous faire le même message en Français. Vraiment. C'était mon intention. Et ça l'est toujours. Mais il s'avère que je ne suis pas très efficace dans les traductions le soir tard et les 12 cloches de minuit viennent de sonner. FORT! Vous ne les avez pas entendues?
Y a plus personne la Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-12812866259800231292012-08-18T22:15:00.001+02:002012-08-19T00:46:07.517+02:00Curiouser and curiouser. A secret play date and interview with Maryann Devine
(Rappel pour les Frenchophones: Pour le Français, ça vient! ça vient! Ce sera un plus tard ce soir après que j'ai fini de traduire l'interview avec Maryann Devine)
Last Thursday evening I finally allowed my Curiosity to get the better of me.
Often my Curiosity nags at me like one of my mess monsters negotiating for a turn on the iPod. It pulls first gently, then more insistently at my mind. OkAngehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-41559391449370580732012-08-11T23:02:00.002+02:002012-08-18T22:47:31.565+02:00Out of the blue: un peu de Franglais SVP
Alert! Alert! Attention!! Everybodyyyyyyyyyy
I have an EXTREMEMENT IMPORTANT announcement to make.
This blog is now fully bilingual :)
I also have a few big 'MERCIs' to say but you'll have to read right to the bottom for those.
Enfin on est bilingue, MAIS pour le Français, rassurez vous, c'est un peu plus bas. En fait. PFFF Mon DIEU! J'ai écrit un tome!! C'est juste un Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-44971536827773668542012-08-04T22:42:00.002+02:002012-08-04T22:42:27.058+02:00Finding FreedomSix months is a flipping long time to go without posting but I needed a break. I know, I should've warned you, let you down gently and maybe apologized a bit. But I didn't feel like it. It wasn't exactly running away from you or hiding, or even being petulant. It was more of a gentle taking back of my own space and time. And it happened naturally, almost without me realizing it. (Damn spell checkAngehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-10147706761651787542012-02-29T00:13:00.001+01:002012-02-29T00:20:23.045+01:00Tick Tock Tempus FugitHello possums, it appears that there's been a distinct case of 'Let's do the Time Warp Again' as I check my watch and realise it's been ten whole days since I posted. Once more … GROAN!! Heavens NO! No indeed! Appearances can be deceiving though can't they? I mean, never judge a book by it's cover, n'est ce pas!
Au contraire! The key word over the last ten days has rather been: Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-53590253580121437922012-02-18T23:37:00.000+01:002012-02-18T23:37:36.573+01:00Trust in yourselfAt the moment I'm a little lost for words …A rare occurrence, I assure you, so make the most of it ;-)(My father used to say I could talk under water with a mouth full of marbles)It appears that some of the fog clouding my decisions has melted away with the last of the snow. To continue homeschooling or not to continue homeschooling. To blog or not to blog. Which end of my art project to get off Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-2720380305523228642012-02-09T18:27:00.001+01:002012-02-09T18:27:00.101+01:00Staying CreativeHello possums.
Found these pearls of wisdom 'here.'
And how delighted was I to see some things I do already: shopping lists, to do lists, weekly menu lists, homeschooling ideas lists, art ideas lists, places to visit lists, grateful for.. lists, ways to improve myself lists … and don't get me started on 'pinterest ideas' PULEEEESE!
Thinking of keeping a list journal to keep track of just how Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-61199912574688030412012-02-07T23:41:00.001+01:002018-03-23T00:28:54.528+01:00If you can't beat 'em???Back on track. Desperately searching for ways to motivate the messmonsters to a) Concentrate on acquiring minimal literacy and numeracy skills when the temptation of the freshly fallen snow lies tantalisingly on the other side of the window pane… and b) Arise on the cold February mornings that there is no snow when I have a hard enough time doing so myself!
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Naaaah. Not gonna!! Think I'll use the towel to stifle the little voice instead ;-)
Hope life's peachy for you all
Much love
xxxAngehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-35881678707963812012012-01-15T08:34:00.000+01:002012-01-15T08:34:28.720+01:00The problem is...Everytime I go onto Pinterest to find a fabulous quote to share with you all, one that really gets me moving myself. I get lost. Lost in ideas. Lost in possibilities. Lost in a future that is different from my today. Lost in another world. The fantasy world of Pinterest!!
This invariably means that the half hour I allow myself to blog fizzles out in a puff of virtual possibilities that, while Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-56269236119862884302012-01-04T09:14:00.002+01:002012-01-04T09:22:40.802+01:00BONNE ANNEE! Skidding in there, champagne in hand, to wish you a Happy New YearResolution number one: NO MORE BEING LATE! Gloups!!!
Having said that - I'm not exactly LATE. Technically in France we can send our New Year's wishes up until Jan 31st... However, apparently one's resolutions should be resolutely set before end December. Pfffff! Time is such a human invention!
If "To Change One's Life = Start Immediately! I see no reason to wait for Jan 1st to do so!! Anyone Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-86341884500886265532011-12-23T17:01:00.000+01:002011-12-23T17:01:01.549+01:00Tout simplement…Merry ChristmasSimplyWishing you allSome good humour(Bruce, the French snow man)
simple pleasures
and a splash of colour
This festive season.
Joyeux NoëlSee you after a good deal of food I don't really need :)xxx
Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-34965178339317077182011-12-17T00:27:00.002+01:002011-12-17T00:55:53.985+01:00Joy to the World!If you wander around La Rivière with me, you are likely to find tiny glimpses of
hidden in the most unlikely places. I find them peeking out at me when I least expect it!I wandered through the door last week to find that Chickpea,my darling eldest daughter,had thoughtfully tidied my wooden letterpress blocks for me
Sometimes it's great to be a messmonster myself.I wouldn't Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-40527489591154422902011-12-07T20:07:00.000+01:002011-12-07T20:07:59.989+01:00Playing (with) the right cards… A Christmas tutorial of sorts guaranteed to appease even the most upset MiLOnce upon a time my messmonsters were given a lovely pack of 7 Families that had belonged to my Mother in Law when she was a child. Unfortunately, the cards had been placed under an evil curse that would force some of them to be separated from the pack; lost forever in the great Bermuda Triangle formed between MiL's House, the Car Ride and Our House. To this day they have never been seen Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-84384427667400076872011-11-29T14:17:00.001+01:002011-11-29T14:20:49.066+01:00Soulful StillnessStillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion and drive which we eventually honour with the name of action. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet and most like an Angel.
Leonard Bernstein
I was contemplaing the idea of stillness this morning after I overslept. Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-2173292992756729132011-11-22T06:39:00.000+01:002011-11-22T06:39:46.137+01:00Never give in!It is 4.45am and I have decided to arise earlier on a regular basis in a desperate bid to improve my efficiency ratio on 'school' days and have some peaceful 'thinking' time before 3 whirlwinds of activity sabotage the calm. A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do n'est-ce pas? . All is dark and chilly, and the only sound is the gentle takakakakakakakakak of the keyboard, if Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-89186683839523210522011-11-15T10:40:00.001+01:002011-11-15T10:43:22.659+01:00Inspire: it's not light we need but fire!That's exactly what I was thinking this morning at 6.30am when I awoke to find the fire still burning in the hearth. Thank goodness for small mercies! Mind you, a little light also comes in handy at 6.30am in this part of the world, when all is dark and the only sound you can hear are the sounds of mice playing in the pasta packets in the pantry. Nice ;-)
There are projects in the air here at Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-77068448501105033752011-11-08T09:11:00.001+01:002011-11-08T09:15:02.755+01:00I have nothing to declare...Of course I'd like to be able to continue the title of this post with 'but my genius.' But that would be far too obvious. Worse! It would be plagiarism!
Perish the thought!
But it is a nifty, catchy expression, don't you think?A hint of daring. A touch of 'up yours!''I have nothing to declare but my genius.'
MERVEILLEUX!
The Irish have the knack for witty, pithy expressions.They can pull them Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-53476736681403814332011-10-31T00:24:00.001+01:002011-10-31T00:28:47.495+01:00You got me singing the blues...Well, not you exactly. Something else. Something a little too touchy at the moment to write here.
For a few weeks there, things were feeling pretty sad here at La Rivière. This thing (read: me) was anyway.
Strangely enough, I've never, EVER associated the colour blue with sadness. It's a colour that fills me with Peace and even Joy. Blue is the colour I paint most. So this calligraphy is a far Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577847153509326664.post-85533354718770182672011-10-27T16:10:00.001+02:002011-10-27T16:13:06.618+02:00A heart of Courage: giveawayHave you ever noticed that when you finally bite the bullet and do something you've been dying to do but dreading internally, for fear of being out of your league, too big for your boots, or just plain not up to grade, that things just fall into place?
Over at Annie Blogs you can win one of my 'Key to Courage' hearts above if you leave a comment on her blog answering one not so tiny question: 'Angehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255310309447767848noreply@blogger.com8