A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 28 December 2021 - T for

 Good morning lovely ladies,

Have you all survived Christmas? Was it good? I hope so. In some families Christmas can be trying and of course if you celebrate on your own, it's not fun either. Our Christmas was very subdued as hubby was ill, but he was at the stage where he could be up for a few hours a day, so it was quiet but fine.

My postcard for today comes from Russia. The words translate: Happy New Year. It features Santa on his way home I assume, with one of his elfs holding a Russian flag.

The stamps are the usual (pretty) Russian stamps. The sender is Aleksandra who lives in Krasnodar and she wishes us a happy New Year. New Year seems to be celebrated more in Russia than Christmas.

Wikipedia writes:

Krasnodar, formerly Yekaterinodar (until 1920), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The city stands on the Kuban River in southern Russia, with a population of 932,629 residents, and up to 1 million residents in the urban agglomeration.

I looked it up on the map and it is east of the Crimea.

Quite a big city.(Another million inhabitants' city I had never heard of...)

So, what have we been up to? Those of you who have read my Friday blog know that hubby fell ill with the new Omicron variant just before Christmas. He suddenly got very high fever and had to go to bed. He was in bed with fever for three days, feeling sweaty, awful and nauseous. It went as soon as it came and apart from having lost nearly 4 kg in weight, he is now back to normal.

We had to self isolate and I celebrated Christmas eve on my own. I had cheese and biscuits and poured myself a glass of wine:

I also busied myself wrapping things we had bought so we would have some presents under the tree.

I had some fun with double sided wrapping paper.

 The little  brown box on the right had arrived in the post. It had come from one of our children:

In it was a beautiful ornament with all the grandchildren's names. 

Christmas day was the first day hubby was out of bed and I let him open the largest present,

which was a new electric razor. He was looking rather rough after three days in bed.

After a shave he went back to bed. 

Christmas dinner was a piece of turkey breast I had in the freezer, which I cut in half and put stuffing in. 

I also cooked roast potatoes in the oven with the turkey and hubby insisted he wanted sprouts(!)

I put out two plates but hubby didn't eat much of course. He went back to bed after dinner.

You can hardly see the sprouts. They are towards the top of the picture in a small dish with some carrots. (I did eat a couple)

Our chickens are laying well and are giving us really large eggs. We get eggs that weigh much more than the store bought XL eggs. American XL eggs (according to the internet) weigh 2.25oz (which is 64 grams). English XL eggs are 72 grams and above. 

This one was exceptional, but still....

I don't think I've ever introduced you to our cat. Her name is Scallywag and she lives on the top terrace which has a 'shed' she has access to:

We've had her from a very young age and we have had her neutered. She is still basically a ferile cat and won't let us touch her. In fact she doesn't come near us, so when she suddenly appeared in the patio, I quickly snapped a photo of her, then she turned around and ran away. 

I think her colouring is called 'calico'.

That is it from me. Not much is happening as we are still self-isolating just in case. The doctor phoned this morning and I forgot to ask him how many days we have to stay isolated. I think a week after the last symptoms have gone should be ok.

Let's go and see what the other ladies of the T-Gang are up to. So off to Elizabeth and Bleubeard who are hosting this gathering at Altered Book Lover.

Wishing everyone a very happy (and healthy) New Year!

Stay safe,

Hugs,

Lisca