A Postcard A Day - Friday 20 August 2021 - Friday Smiles

 Hello lovely ladies,

I have a nice postcard for you. It shows all the good things a southern european country produces. It's probably France as I spy some Brie. Do you eat Brie? We eat quite a lot of it. It is delicious on crusty bread, or in a baguette.

Today is Friday Smiles, where we post things that made us smile (and might make you smile too). Well that card, made by Lou Paper, with all that lovely food certainly made me smile.

The card comes to me from the UK, from someone called Margaret. She is actually Hungarian, living in England.  

She recommends a book to me: French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Giuliano.

 Looking at all the lovely food on the card, which is obviously French, I don't quite believe that statement, but I bet it is a fun book to read. Has anyone read it?

The stamp is awesome. It shows a scene from the Battle of Wakefield, 1460.

Now people that know me, will know that I will look this up. As sure enough this is what i found:

The Battle of Wakefield took place in Sandal Magna near Wakefield in northern England, on 30 December 1460. It was a major battle of the Wars of the Roses. The opposing forces were an army led by nobles loyal to the captive King Henry VI of the House of Lancaster and his Queen Margaret of Anjou on one side, and the army of Richard, Duke of York, the rival claimant to the throne, on the other.

For several years before the battle, the Duke of York had become increasingly opposed to the weak King Henry's court. After open warfare broke out between the factions and Henry became his prisoner, he laid claim to the throne, but lacked sufficient support. Instead, in an agreement known as the Act of Accord, he was made Henry's heir to the throne, displacing from the succession Henry's and Margaret's 7-year-old son Edward, Prince of Wales. Margaret of Anjou and several prominent nobles were irreconcilably opposed to this accord, and massed their armies in the north. Richard of York marched north to deal with them, but found he was outnumbered.

Although he occupied Sandal Castle, York sortied from the castle on 30 December. His reasons for doing so have been variously ascribed to deception by the Lancastrian armies, or treachery by some nobles and Lancastrian officers who York thought were his allies, or simple rashness or miscalculation by York. The Duke of York was killed and his army was destroyed. Many of the prominent Yorkist leaders and their family members died in the battle or were captured and executed. (Wikipedia)

This is the image on the stamp, painted by Graham Turner:

My week has been a busy one but absolutely full of smiles!

On Friday we went food shopping as it was going to be a Bank Holiday weekend. We had coffee in town.

Hubby left for Malaga (a three hour car journey) to pick up his daughter and her boys from the airport there. As she was arriving near midnight, they had booked a hotel near the airport, so he wasn't coming home that night.

Our neighbour has a large swimming pool in the valley. As he is an absent home owner, we are custodians of the (large) estate and have access to the pool when we want. Needless to say, the boys had fun.

Instead of going to church, we went onto the estate and the boys helped to erect a large cross. We then said prayers by that cross and generally had some fun. But it was very hot (40 degrees C), so we spent time indoors and only in the evening did we go to the pool.

Monday is still very hot!

On Tuesday the family had to go to the laboratory to have their Covid tests done. In the afternoon we went swimming in the lake and in the evening we went to a spectacular viewpoint to watch the sunset.

On Wednesday, another swim in the lake and then off to the airport in Malaga. 

On the way back hubby and I stopped at a restaurant as we hadn't had anything to eat yet.

There is no collage for Thursday, as we rested and really didn't do much. Having three young people to entertain is tiring business and of course the heat takes it out of you too. 

I'm going to leave it at that and I'll go and visit Annie (A Stitch In Time) and Virginia (Rocking Your World Friday) but not before I post some funnies at the end. 

Have a lovely weekend,

Keep smiling,

Hugs,

Lisca