Hello lovely girls! Is the sun shining for you? Or are there clouds on the horizon? Remember, every cloud has a silver lining.
Let me show you a fun postcard that landed in my mailbox the other day:
It was sent to me by Nadia, who lives in a small village in France. She tells me she is off sick at the moment for depression. She has to go back to work and is dreading it. She has to work another 14 years before she can retire and that is making her even more depressed.
Nadia I feel for you. I have been in the same situation, only I was much closer to retirement age fortunately.
The card is fun. It shows small children playing with water. On the back it says:"Why don't we stay as enthusiastic as small children?".
The stamp is one I have never seen:
It reads 'French inventions, le cinéma' and it comes from a series about French inventions. The WOPA, stamps and coins website writes:
On June 16, 2025, La Poste is issuing a collector's booklet of eight postage stamps on the theme of French inventions.
This booklet illustrates the theme of French inventions with eight inventions from among the hundreds listed in France. Whether they were precursors, pioneers, or patented inventors, these French geniuses made it possible for everyone today to have access to technologies or objects whose use has become commonplace:
The calculator: the Pascaline, by the famous polymath Blaise Pascal (1623-1662).
The hot air balloon: an invention of the two brothers, Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1740-1810) and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier (1745-1799).
The folding umbrella: by Jean Marius, inventor of a "broken parasol-umbrella to be carried in one's pocket," protected by a patent signed by Louis XIV.
The Sewing Machine: by Barthélémy Thimonnier (1793-1857).
Cinema: The animated film industry owes much to Etienne Jules Marey (1830-1904), a physician and physiologist. Working on the locomotion of humans and animals, he took rapid-fire snapshots on a single gelatin-bromide-coated glass plate using his camera gun, creating chronophotography.
Radio: The principle of electrical transmission between two distant points was invented by physicist Édouard Branly (1844-1940).
The soundtrack: Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817-1879), a typographer, invented a system that allowed acoustic vibrations to be engraved on lampblack-coated paper—in other words, the graphic trace of a sound. Forgotten in favor of Edison, this pioneer's voice was finally heard in 2008 (singing "Au clair de la lune") thanks to researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the U.S.A. His voice can be heard at http://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/1860-Scott-Au-Clair-de-la-Lune.mp3
The digital code: we owe it to Robert Carrière (1931-2007), an electronics engineer, inspired by a Popeye cartoon.
What has been happening here in Spain?
Well I continue to go to Pilates twice a week and do aquagym in the local swimming pool also twice a week in the evening. I have friends to lunch once a week and I go out with other friends over the weekend. That's my routine, and in summer it is so hot here that I stay in with the blinds down and the windows shut, not to let any hot air into the house.
I remember the hot summer of 1976 (in Europe) as my son was born in August of that year and it was the hottest I remember ever in the Netherlands.
It's nothing compared to this.
I had my nails done a few days ago:
We had a scare a few days ago when a farmer, who was working the land, accidentally hit (and damaged) a gas pipe.
The situacion was soon under control but gas supply had to be cut off in several towns. We don't have gas (only bottled gas) so I didn't notice it until I saw it on the news.
My lemon tree is doing well:
About six or seven mini lemons growing nicely.
And to finish off, a picture of Ronnie:
I had to take him to the vets this week as he wasn't well and the vet concluded he had an allergic reaction to something. So he's on steroids and I have to make sure I use cleaning products without bleach in it.
Time will tell....(he already seems much better).
I have put some funnies at the end.
Enjoy your weekend,
Keep smiling!
Lisca
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