A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 20 August 2024 - T for C-3PO, nails and Ikea

 Hello lovely girls, It's Tuesday again and that means T-Party!! Woohoo! Have you got your drink ready? 

But before we join the T-Party, let me show you a fun postcard I received:

It comes from Germany. A guy from Hamburg sent it to me.  It's a production illustration by Ralph McQuarrie and it it is called: 'Ewoks carrying C-3PO on Endor.' 

The stamp is a Postcrossing stamp. Postcrossing is so popular in Germany that they issued a stamp especially:

There were some stickers on the card too:

This is a Banksy sticker. I love Banksy as it reminds me of Bristol. Banksy started in Bristol and I remember seeing his art work all over Bristol before he was even famous.

This is also a sticker. It's so small that I can't read the date on the 'newspaper'. The blue lines is the cancellation stamp.

As I said earlier: It's T for Tuesday! Hosted by Elizabeth and Bluebeard, one only needs to add a drink reference. Here is mine:

What have I been doing? Well, I had my nails done (My Friday friends have already seen this):

I was going to have them turquoise again, but saw the nails of the girl that was doing mine and I asked if she could do mine the same. She did:

The glitter unfortunately is not visible on the photo.

On Friday evening I had dinner with two men! My Danish neighbour and the young man upstairs came to dinner. I made spaghetti alle vongole (clams) and had salmon and dorada as a main. I completely forgot to take any pictures!

Saturday should have been Intercambio, our Spanish/English conversation group, but very few could make it, so my friends and I went for a drink in the Paseo, only one block away from my house:

We started with three people, but as the evening progressed, more people joined:

It's light until 9 pm and as I was very tired that day, I headed home at dusk:

And I noticed at the end of my street they had set up a stage and a sound system. (can you see it?)  At midnight there would be dancing and a band would be playing live. I was hoping that the wind was blowing the other way so I would be able to sleep. Luckily it didn't disturb me.

Yesterday my friend Andy had another hospital appointment and we drove to Granada. After the appointment we went to Ikea in the big shopping mall. I'd never been there. We walked around Ikea, bought a few little things and then had lunch in the cafetaria. The menu is the same, the world over I think (well, at least in the whole of Europe). I had the salmon with the couscous:

My drink is an alcohol free beer (I'm trying to lose weight. It's low calorie).

And Andy had the pork shank:

(Kim wasn't hungry).

I had never been to this enormous shopping mall:

It's called Nevada

Inside there are several levels and hundreds of shops. There is also a large food court (we didn't go there). My sister, who loves shopping would just looove this!

Palm trees inside too. I know Elizabeth likes to see palm trees. 

The road back through the mountains is always very quiet. So it was a big surprise when we found ourselves in a tailback, a standing queue:

This is the first time in 20 years that I've experienced this.

This was the reason. A lorry in the ditch. It took us 20 minutes to inch our way past the accident. They were in the process of recovering the truck.

Oh well, never a dull moment. (I just thank the Lord for air conditioning in cars).

That is all from me today. I wish you all a very happy T-Day!

Keep smiling!

Lisca