A Postcard A day - Tuesday 17 May 2022 - T for Tuesday

 Hello lovely ladies,

Here we are again, ready for the T-Party hosted by Elizabeth and Bleubeard. Bring a beverage of your choice and lets have fun!

I will show you my beverage later but first I'd like to share a postcard with you. I'm sharing this particular one of the British royal family (Well, it's Prince William and his family) as his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, is celebrating her Jubilee.

The card was sent to me from Canada by Emma. The card was published by The Monarchist League of Canada. The names of the children are not mentioned on the card and I don't know them. But a visit to Google will satisfy that curiosity.

The stamps are gorgeous:

Of course Margaret Atwood needs no introduction. (I confess I didn't know she was Canadian).

This is what Wikipedia writes about her:

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.

Atwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics". Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age.

Then there is a tiny stamp with a lovely smiley photo of Queen Elizabeth. I really like the stamp with the moose. When I was visiting relatives in Alberta, we commented that we had never seen a moose. My relative said, oh, my neighbour has some. I'll drive you down to see them. Two hours drive on a dirt road get us to the neighbor. Only to find that the moose weren't there! Then we had to drive two hours back. His wife was not very pleased, I can tell you as we were going to have a BBQ that evening, but it had gotten late... Oops.

Now for my 'ticket' to the T-Party:

We met up on Tuesday with a friend in Granada and we went to this Italian restaurant. Hubby and our friend had salmon and I had a lovely goats cheese salad and a glass of white wine. It was delicious. This is the restaurant. We sat at the table on the corner.

On Wednesday we went for a walk in one of the lovely parks near the hotel:

Thursday hubby had his last treatment and when I went to pick him up from the hospital, I saw nurses outside the front door celebrating Nurses' Day.

We took a taxi to the bus station and got on the bus to go home. At the bus station I bought some postcards for my Postcrossing hobby. The lady put them in a home made recycled paper bag:

The bag was made out of a toy catalogue. She said her elderly mother made them at home. I thought Elizabeth might appreciate this.

Ahh! It's so nice to be home! Hubby's first thing was to say hello to our chickens.

Who gave us 5 eggs. (My friend had been looking after them).

Of course the next morning I started a washing marathon:

The last week we were in Granada, winter turned into summer! 

And when we got home, hubby decided he needed to get rid of the chimney pipe, so we could use the sun screen. The sun is very hot, so we do need that sun screen over our patio.

Also on my to-do list was going to the post office to collect my mail. There was a parcel from England:

It came from Elle, (Empire of the Cat). She had made this beautiful coaster of tartan material. The blue and green is hubby's tartan, so that was a lovely surprise (He descends from the MacKay family).

A most gorgeous tag! And a Fudge chocolate bar. That bar brought back memories. Hubby used to work in a chocolate factory before retiring. And it was the Cadbury chocolate factory that made the Fudge bar! It was the factory in Keynsham. In 2010 the factory was closed and the production went to Poland.

Thank you Elle! You put a huge smile on my face!

That is all from me today.

Happy T-Day all!

Hugs,

Lisca