A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 29 October 2024 - T for Sleeping Beauty, tapas and Kitten

 Hello lovely ladies,

I have a lovely postcard for you today. And as it's Elizabeth and Bluebeard's T-Party today, I will also share some photos of Saturday evening when I went out for a drink with some friends.

But first,  my card, which comes from Germany:

It's a painting by John Collier (1850-1934) called Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty)

On a website 'The Hopkins Collection' I found the following info: John Maler Collier (1850-1934) was a leading English artist, and an author. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. He regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy and also at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, of which he became vice-president.

This remarkable picture is eloquent testimony to the survival of Pre-Raphaelite values well into the twentieth century. Dating from as late as 1921, it treats the famous fairy story of 'Sleeping Beauty' that had been told many times in European literature. Collier's interpretation is not so much an illustration of a text as an evocation of mood, an attempt to mirror a certain frame of mind on the part of the viewer. His almost exact contemporary John William Waterhouse, another artist much influenced at the outset by Alma-Tadema, pursued this course for many years, as, in a different mode, did the younger John Byam Shaw and others of his generation. But The Sleeping Beauty is in a class of its own, representing a particularly happy resolution of sentiment and form.

The stamps are awesome. I love the Freddy Mercury stamp

What has been happening here in Spain? The weather has suddenly turned, temperatures plummeted and the rains came. On Thursday (I had my washing out to dry) it started to rain heavily and I didn't get my washing in on time. That weather continued on Friday. I went to archery in the pouring rain.

I would have liked to go out on Friday evening as there was the tapa festival going on in the village. But the weather was so foul that I couldn't get anyone to come out with me. 

Then on Saturday (still raining) we did Intercambio, (the Spanish-English chat group) and after that a few of us went out for a drink.

My drink was a Tinto de Verano, a mixture of red wine and lemonade, a popular drink. The tapa was utterly delicious and consisted of meat and pistacio (a local crop) with a pistacio sauce. 

The little green wafer was also made with pistacios (don't ask me how) and it was edible.

Another bar, another tapa. Again my drink is Tinto de Verano.

Here they had placed four tapas on one plate instead of individual plates. I didn't like this one so much. But the sweet potato chips were delicious.

I don't suppose I can't let you go without some kitty photos:

Frankie likes to sit on my legs or on my lap when I sit down in the evening to watch tv.

And often she falls asleep.

Of course we play a lot. Anything that dangles is very exciting for Frankie.

We have lots of fun.

I'm just remembering it's nearly Halloween (It's not celebrated much here. I think the children dress up in school or something) but I found this:

That's it from me today. 

Happy T-Day all!

Lisca