A Postcard a Day - Friday 18 August 2023 - Friday Smiles

 Hello lovely ladies, Here we are again on Friday for a resumé of the week and all its smiles and silver linings.

I have a fun postcard to show you. It arrived this week:

It is entitled: "Die Goldenen Zwanziger: Bitte nicht überholen". (Translated The Golden Twenties: Please don't overtake)

I really love this photo. It is hard to imagine that this photo was taken 100 years ago! Look at the fashion! Don't you just love those hats?

The stamps are lovely:

The stamp on the left features Loreley. The Lorelei is a 132-metre-high, steep slate rock on the right bank of the River Rhine in the Rhine Gorge at Sankt Goarshausen in Germany, part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site.

It has been an infamous maritime disaster site since its first records during the 10th century, with a varied mythos, ranging from dwarfs to a siren trying to explain the high number of ship wrecks and the loud echo inside the passage.

Lorelei, siren of Germanic mythology, of great beauty and delicious song, who was placed on a rock on the Rhine and with her song seduced the navigators. Sculpture that stands on the banks of the river in the Rhineland.

How was your week? Mine was good. On Friday my friend and neighbor Susanne came for a drink. I was sitting on my patio and had the 'party lights ' on. Of course she can see that from her house, so she came over when she heard I was having a G&T. (See my Tuesday blog).

On Saturday I had a lazy day and did a lot of reading. I finished The Golden Oldies Bookclub by Judy Leigh but found it a bit boring. Delightful but boring as nothing much happens. I went out for a drink with friends early evening and then I watched tv. I've started to watch Wolf. But I'm finding it quite horrific. I have just started episode three. after the Figaro scene, where the villain seems to be about to disembowel this poor woman. I'm not sure I want to continue watching it. Anyone else watched it?

On Sunday I was invited by my friend Dian to lunch. She had cooked a delicious meal (See photo on my Tuesday blog).

And in the afternoon my lodger's girlfriend came to visit me. She is also Dutch so we could have a good natter in my mother tongue.

She is learning to bake and she was very proud of the blueberry crumble she made. Very nice it was too.

At 9:30 I went to the Feria fiesta in the village. I'm not a party animal so I had never been, but my friends insisted they take me round. Again photos on my previous blog post.

I was really pleased to see some of my bulbs are actually flowering.

(Most haven't survived the heat):

On Monday I discovered one of my chickens has died. It must have been suffering from something as it had lost a lot of feathers and it was one of the chickens I was keeping separate. Then there were three....

Tuesday was a national holiday, so everything was closed and most people off work. It is a catholic religious holiday. My friends Kim and Andy came for lunch and I had cooked a Thai red curry with chicken. Very nice. (Forgot to take a picture).

In the late afternoon my lodger's girlfriend came to see me again as we had arranged to play games.

We played Rummicub. When we got tired of that I found a travel version of Sequence:

So we played that too.

On Wednesday I drove Kim and Andy to Granada for a scan. His appointment was at 3 pm but he didn't have his scan until 4, then we were told it would take an hour and 20 minutes, so Kim and I went for a drink. When Andy was done we went to find something to eat. Not easy at 5.30 in the afternoon as in Spain the kitchen in a restaurant or bar doesn't open until 8 pm. 

We did find a bar that served tapas, as we were all hungry. Andy above all as he had been nil-by-mouth from 9 that morning. It was nice I could have a drink as Andy was driving back.

Thursday I did some card making but they are for upcoming birthdays, so I won't show them until both birthday girls have received their cards.

That's it from me today. Of course there will be some funnies at the end.

Please join me at Annie's at A Stitch In Time with you smiles.

Have a lovely weekend,

Keep smiling,

Hugs,

Lisca

Very clever!

Poor Polly!