A Postcard A Day - Friday 20 March 2020 - Friday Smiles

Hello lovely ladies! 

How are you all bearing up under the safety measures? We have been under house arrest since Monday. Nobody is allowed out, only to do food shopping, and even then you get stopped by the police. 

But I did receive some lovely postcards. Look at these little Native American cuties! It was sent to me from the USA by Paula, who tells me they hold yearly Native American Festivals where she lives.

 The stamps are gorgeous. Some red pears and the lunar New Year image.

The second card is one of those vintage travel posters, that I like so much.  This one is from the series Posters From The British Empire 1926-1933, Mautitius, Sugar, Rum. Designed by Keith Henderson. 

 I like it very much. 
The card was sent to me by Mike, who lives in northeastern Texas with his wife. They have been married for 39 years and Mike hopes to retire at the end of this month, but is not sure how he will occupy his time.
The stamps are fun. The Muppets figures are fun, and grapes can lead to fun (If you make wine).

How has my week been? Like most European countries we are in total lockdown. We have house arrest and are only allowed to go to a food shop. I sent hubby to get some bread at the baker the other day and he came back with lots of bread but also with some enormous donuts and some cream pastry!

So we had to eat them unfortunately, lol. They are not very nice when they're stale. (They go stale soon as the baker makes them without chemicals to keep them fresh)

I did some scrapbooking. This is one from earlier in the week. Did I show you that one already? I can't remember, but they are the almond blossoms.

This was my desk yesterday (Thursday).

The weather has not been good. Very overcast and a bit of rain too. (Hence the washing drying indoors, a very rare occurrence here)

 On Wednesday we went shopping together. The streets were deserted. Very eerie. Those people that we did see were all wearing masks.
 I popped into the post office to empty my postbox. Hubby waited outside, but got told off by a police man for loitering. You have to go home, he said. Luckily that was when I came out of the post office, so we could actually go home.

 Hubby is working on the ceiling of the cave house next door, which has had water damage (This happened years ago, but it takes that long to dry out). He is making arched ceilings, so that they won't collapse again. It does mean that I don't have to worry about a man with nothing to do. He loves the work he does and he can please himself as to how much (or how little) he does.

I made butternut squash risotto yesterday, and I bake cakes.I keep in contact with my friends via Whatsapp or Messenger. Staying indoors is not so much hardship for us really. 

Thank God for Internet is all I can say! The Met is streaming famous operas for free. (As is the Paris opera) A different one every day. On Wednesday I watched La Bohème. A lot of museums around the world are offering free virtual tours.  Amazing! Here is a link to 6 Italian museums, just to get you started. And here are some more museums with free virtual tours

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Here is another website that has links to lots more free stuff and resources. I know the UK has no house arrest yet, but that will come soon.
My daughter-in-law, who has a food blog called GourmetMum, is preparing daily 'cooking-with-children' videos to keep children entertained and teach them that cooking is fun at the same time. 

That is it from me tonight. I will have some (very cheesy) Covid virus funnies, which you have probably have seen already. 

I will go and join Annie at A Stitch In Time and Virginia at Celtic House to share today's silver linings.

Before I go:

Have a lovely weekend whatever you are doing. Stay safe and stay healthy. Stay positive above all!

Hugs,
Lisca

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