Change direction by Angela Lansbury

 Change direction, yes, change direction

Don't act rashly, you need introspection

Turn all negatives into positives

A new goal helps you change your direction

If you're heading for trouble, and divorce

Maybe you should stop, and divert your course

Remember when you weren't heavy-hearted

You both looked so happy when you started

Why go to bed, your head full of sorrow

When you could plan a joyful tomorrow

The money you grabbed, spent on stocks and shares

Could be a new bed, fridge, table and chairs

Don't spend all day proving that you were right

When you could transform someone's day or night

Think of the message in stories you've told

A small gold ring can make a heart of gold

Flying off to give a speech? My six top tips.

Conquering Fear of Public Speaking

My six top tips

1 You are the most confident person in the room.

The members of the audience are more afraid than you are. You are on the stage. They are sitting at the back and avoiding the front rows.

2 Don't tell them you are afraid. 

Would you want the the pilot of a plane to tell you he was nervous, or a train driver, or a bus driver, or the chef in a restaurant, or the person on the till counting out your change? Instead look confident to reassure the audience they are not wasting their time. 

3 Take a deep breath and speak loudly. 

Several members of the audience are worried they won't hear. They are aged over 50, have hearing loss, are sitting behind somebody with a large head, are distracted by somebody nearby whispering, or speak English as a second language. Be kind. Be audible.

4 This is not the hardest speech.

The speech at your mother's funeral is your hardest speech. Same goes for any other funeral speech. No other speech comes near. Practise speaking this silly speech so that when you have to give one of life's hardest speeches you can be fair to the audience and the occasion. 

5 The audience are hoping to enjoy themselves. 

Make sure they do. Smile at them Focus on what they want. Their chief concern is: - what is in it for me?

6 Go to a Toastmasters International meeting.

Add a song to your speech. 

Rap Song: Teacher by Angela Lansbury

👨👩

A good teacher's a great teacher
Why should she stay a teacher?
'cos when she becomes a preacher
It's hard for students to reach her

Always do what you're often asked
Don't let days drift, and weeks race past
Do what you're asked, do it real fast
She won't need to nag about that task

In a class you need to show
You'll apply all that you know
And you go where you should go
And cast a warm white glow

Do not shrug and be too cold
Then she won't have need to scold
If  you do what you are told
The young and old are growing old

When you put her on a pedestal
She is heading for a fall
When she's too high and far too tall
She's no use to you at all

Let her sow and you will reap
All the joys and skills you seek
Like a tree which bears a peach
Like the waves which wash a beach

If you know the rules to keep
Choose, don't follow like blind sheep
Daytime alert, the night's for sleep
Always laugh and never weep

I'll repeat what I just said
To drum it in your head
Repeat each night in bed
Read and write what you have read:

Let a teacher be a teacher
She should stay a teacher, not a preacher
'Cos when she starts to preach it's very hard to reach her
But stay in touch, you'll learn so much -
💗
From your beloved teacher
From your beloved teacher..

Copyright Angela Lansbury 2019 Nov 22

Updated 29 Oct 2026.

Teaching others how to create songs, or changing attitudes, actions and lives through the songs the teacher creates.

Turning do not into don't sounds more conversational and natural. That change also save a syllable, allowing you to insert something to enhance the sentence. You can add one of the five senses, r a contrast.

Updated October 30th 2026. I added the alliterative word drift to sit beside days, removed the word and, keeping the eight syllables. You always have to read a loud and think what sounds natural and is easy to say, so you don't hesitate or forget the words.

Italy's charms

I'd explored Ireland's wet emerald Isles
I'd travelled to Thailand's famed land of smiles
Then I was invited to Italy
I flew over Florence and Tuscany

My family used to drive over there
Through the alps when I was a teenager
To admire Roman ruins in Roma,
Venice - gondolas, Verona - op'ra

My daily drink was Asti Spumante
Now the drink which even stay-at-homes know
The marketing dream, bubbly Prosecco
Everyone's heard of rich red Chianti

But the heart of Italy's ancient land
Hilltop castles, blow a kiss with both hands.
Tuscany touts the wicked Medici
Umbria paints Saint Francis of Assisi

To a tiny airport of Perugia
The Etruscan capital of Umbria
I loved the fruit honey from Umbria
Olives, salami, truffles on pasta!

Modern students stay there to study, learn
The musical language of Italy
In winter stroll past ruined Roman walls
In summer Europe's tallest waterfall

I tried local wines from Lungarotti
I sniffed the aroma and munched a biscotti
The head of a winery drove to Rome
He did a day's work then drove back home

Students take drugs, I prefer mountain air,
The fruit honey's so good that I don't want to share
The castle hotel has armour and stone steps, need a clear head
Medieval murals arch over my bed

The long river Tiber will still flow to Rome
After Ryan Air planes have flown tourists home.
My last look from my window is over red tiles
At green fingers of hills, white mist rises for miles

Back in London, what do I miss?
The giant gateway; the small chocolate kiss. 

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The Way You Singing (The Sad, Smiling And Spanish Man Song)

By Angelical

You find so many people are glad
But you, you are mostly sad

I like the way you singing.
Ringing.
I like the way you dancing.
You do it like financing.
I like the way you romancing.
You do it like freelancing.

You find so many people are beguiling
But you, you are mostly smiling

I love the way you wear your hair,
Spreading your style everywhere.
You're like a style fountain.
Enough zazz for a whole mountain.

You find so many people are provoking
But you, you are mostly joking

You're the perfect man.
No one brings me joy like you can.

You find so many people are musing
But you, you are mostly amusing

Sad, smiling and Spanish,
Joking and amusing too,
Are the qualities of you

You find so many people are glad
But you, you are mostly sad

Created on 28th October 2019.

I would reverse several of the lines. So many people are sad but you are mostly glad.


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A Singapore State of Mind (The Train Hip Hop)

By Angelical

A Rap

Yeah, yeah
Ayo, my friends, it's time.
It's time, my friends (aight, my friends, begin).
Straight out the green dungeons of rap.
The garden drops deep as does my durian.
I never swim, 'cause to swim is the son of tureen.
Beyond the walls of lunches, life is defined.
I think of love when I'm in a Singapore state of mind.
Hope the pardon got some arden.
My harden don't like no dirty jardin.
Run up to the chardin and get the varden.
In a Singapore state of mind.What more could you ask for? The humid garden?
You complain about the haze.
I gotta love it though - somebody still speaks for the jardin.
I'm rappin' to the train,
And I'm gonna move your crain.
Curvy, multi lingual, clean, like a waterfall
Boy, I tell you, I thought you were a stall.
I can't take the the haze, can't take the Grab.
I woulda tried to slim I guess I got no dab.
I'm rappin' to the crain,
And I'm gonna move your train.
Yea, yaz, in a Singapore state of mind.
When I was young my son had a stall.
I waz kicked out without no fall.
I never thought I'd see that protocol.
Ain't a soul alive that could take my son's ball.
A foody bus is quite the us.

Thinking of love. Yaz, thinking of love (love).

Energy

Song
Energy
by Angela Lansbury

Follow me and dance with me
I will give you energy
When you've missed eight hours of sleep
You don't want to go too deep

If I made you feel too tired
I would quickly be retired
I start slow, with a smiling face

Then suddenly increase the pace
As if we're all in one fun race
Then slow down, decrease the pace
Breathe slowly, watch my smiling face

I'm the trainer you can trust
When other teachers throw up dust
Follow me and dance with me
I will give you energy

Best of all it's fun and free
Watch my steps and watch my face
You'll always do your best for me
I will give you energy.
-ends-
Copyright Angela Lansbury 2017 July 1st