A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 18 Novembre 2025 - T for bird's nest, donkeys and a cat

 Hello lovely peeps,

I was so busy today that I completely forgot to write my blog. So here I am late at night quickly throwing something together. I'm afraid it will be lots of photos and not much content. OK, more next week. But I do have a postcard:

It's the Olympic Stadium in Beijing, called the Bird's Nest for obvious reasons. The olympics in Beijing were in 2008. I remember the opening ceremony. It was amazing.

This card was sent to me by Xiang who is 16 and lives in Wenzhou City. Wenzhou has many attractions, writes Xiang, like the Yandang Mountain, the Nanxi River and the National Flag Museum.

The stam is colourful:

The stamp celebrates the 22nd UPU Congress in Beijing. The Internet  writes:

The Universal Postal Union (UPU)'s 22nd Congress took place in Beijing in 1999, where it adopted the Beijing Postal Strategy for 2000-2004 and implemented a new terminal dues system that laid the groundwork for country-specific rates. Other key outcomes included the election of Carlos Silva as chair of the Postal Operations Council and addressing challenges posed by globalization and electronic communication. 

What have I been up to? I have started a make-up 

course. I would like to use a bit of make-up on special 

occasions, but I don't know where to start. So I have 

been to the first evening, where we brought everything 

had. In my case that were a lot of unopened containers 

and little boxes:

But I didn't have any eye pencil or lip pencil or 

foundation, so this morning I went out and bought 

some. 

I hope it fits the bill. It's difficult to guess the colour 

even though there was a mirror. I put some of the 

sampler on my hand, but my hand is much darker 

than my face. Anyway, we'll see....

I was at my friend Isa's cortijo (farm house) and 

noticed that the prickly pears that she has planted 

are doing well. I might have mentioned before that 

the prickly pear cactus was nearly wiped out completely 

by a virus ten years ago but is slowly coming back. 

It was such an important part of the landscape.

Isa has planted new cacti all along this fence and look at them now!!

I also paid a visit to the donkeys. (Isa loves donkeys):

They have all got names but I don't know them.

One of them is a smaller type:

She has three or four donkeys but I only saw these

At home, my 'Christmas cactus' is starting to flower:

It's purple rather than green, which means it's not 

happy, but it keeps growing and flowering, even 

though I have moved it a few times thinking it doesn't 

get enough light.

My cat Ronnie is happy and affectionate as ever:

Not camera shy at all.

And because I'm joining the lovely ladies at the T-Party 

hosted by Bluebeard and Elizabeth,

I need a drink. I haven't got one at the moment

 but I had just previously made a cup of 'tea', well, 

infusion:

I'll leave you with that.

Happy T-Day,

Lisca