A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 8 May 2023 - T for

Hello lovely ladies, How are you all? Ready to join the T-Party hosted by Elizabeth and Bleubeard? All you need is an image of a drink or a drink reference. Mine will appear later. First off is my postcard:

It was sent by my friend Keren and it shows the ruins of Tintern Abbey with bluebells.

Tintern Abbey, ecclesiastical ruin in Monmouthshire, Wales, on the west bank of the River Wye. Founded for Cistercian monks in 1131, Tintern Abbey was almost entirely rebuilt and enlarged between 1220 and 1287. The building was finally completed, except for minor additions, in the early 14th century.

Tintern is famous for its abbey and for the poets and painters such as Wordsworth and Turner who visited it two hundred years ago in the Romantic period. It is indeed a wonderfully romantic place, lying on the Welsh side of the winding valley of the River Wye between Chepstow and Monmouth.

Tintern Abbey is the best preserved medieval abbey in Wales and is surrounded by beautiful landscape. The place is well maintained with many information cards detailing every aspect of the original building.

The destruction of the abbey was part of Henry's dissolution of the monasteries following his break from Rome. It was also part of an enormous money-making scheme that brought wealth and land to the monarchy.

The stamps are gorgeous. Thank you Karen.

                                             

Great Britain’s Royal Mail celebrates the X-Men, mutant superheroes who fight against enemies in comic books, movies, television shows and more.

The X-Men franchise marks its 60th anniversary in 2023; Marvel Comics published the first issue of the X-Men comic book in 1963.

Royal Mail’s X-Men issue includes 12 stamps in two horizontal se-tenant (side-by-side) strips of six, and a souvenir sheet of five stamps. The 12 stamps have traditional stamp gum, while the stamps in the souvenir sheet are self-adhesive, according to Royal Mail.

Now, let me think what I have been up to this week. Some of it can be seen in my Friday blog post. 

On Thursday I had been given a courgette (zucchine), not a long one but a round one. 

I got some minced meat out of the freezer and chopped some onions and did a fry-up of that with tomatoes etc. Scooped out the centres and added that to the fry-up and then re-filled them, added some cheese and shoved it in the oven. Delicious!

That will be my ticket to the T-Party!

On Friday I took my Danish friends to the bus station. They are setting off for the north of Spain to start walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostella. They will start in the Pyrenees, on the French side in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port.

Saturday of course was the coronation of king Charles. Although I am not British, it was history in the making so I wanted to watch it on TV now that I have a TV.

I watched from 9:30 in the morning. I saw the royals arrive, saw the coronation service in Westminster Abbey and then the parade, which was most impressive. I saw all the forces gathering in the palace gardens and paying homage to their king. Their cheers of hip hip hurray was quite emotional. Then I saw the king and his queen appear on the balcony with many family members. They were still wearing their heavy crowns (whose idea was that). They had to be very careful and couldn't move their heads and couldn't look up to see the fly over of the helicopters (Charles was a helicopter pilot) or the red Arrows. I felt for him. Anyway, I enjoyed the day.

On Sunday I went to church but before I had chance to cook my dinner, my friend Antonia alerted me to the fact that a mutual friend from Scotland had arrived back from months working as a volunteer in South Africa. He had brought two lady friends with him who had also worked on the project. 

We all met up and spent a whole afternoon sitting outside having drinks and tapas.

On Monday I accompanied Kim and Andy to Granada for a hospital appointment. All went well and we stopped for a drink with tapas:

We weren't impressed by this tapa. It is migas: fried bread crumbs with chorizo.Andy's drink (alcohol free beer) is in the picture so another ticket for the T-Party.

We walked along the Avenida de la Constitución, a wide avenue with a central park walk way with flower beds and statues. very pleasant. 

Here seen from the air.(Photo from the internet). 

It's really nice to walk along.

Here is Kim next to 

Eugenia de Montijo. She was an empress, wife of Napoleon III. She was born in Granada, hence the statue.

I can never resist a beautiful door:

Or two:

That is it from me this week.

Happy T-Day,

Hugs,

Lisca