Hello lovely ladies, How are you all? I'm feeling a bit better after having spent a week still coughing and spluttering in the aftermath of a nasty flu. I'm still not right but I'm just ignoring that and carrying on regardless. (I'm still coughing)
Let me show you my postcard for today:
It comes to me from Finland. The title of the photo is: Cleaning fish, Suursaari 1930s.
I had to google Suursari as I had never heard of it.
Suursaari is the Finnish name for the island of Gogland, (or Hogland in Swedish). Wikipedia writes:I tried to draw an arrow indicating where the island is and it took me half an hour! (I'm not that computer savvy), but you get the gist.
Wikipedia also writes:
Gogland's tourist industry was growing in importance, with most tourists coming from St. Petersburg, and some from Finland. In 2006, however, Russian authorities declared Gogland a "border area", which means that foreign nationals are not allowed to travel to the island without special permits. This limits tourism from abroad to small groups, admitted one at a time, and adds extensive bureaucracy to applications for permission to visit the island.
The stamp is really nice:
Designed by Illustrator Emmi-Riikka Vartiainen. The stamp is one of a set of two.
The stamps feature two goddesses mentioned in Kalevala poems, among other works. On the shape-cut stamps, Päivätär and Kuutar spin gold and silver thread from the rays of the sun and moon, from which gold and silver clothes are woven.
Its companion looks like this:
So what is happening here in Spain? I have not been that active but I continue to do archery, which I started two weeks ago. Here I am having a go:
I really like it.
Over the weekend I had two 'gatherings'. One of them on Sunday afternoon was a social for the Intercambio group. One of the ladies hosted a BBQ at her house. The weather was lovely and I was asked to make dessert. I made a cherry yoghurt cake:
It turned out well, but it could have been a bit sweeter, I thought. Oh well, next time...
Since Thursday I have a kitten! I'm calling her Frankie as she has blue eyes (Frank Sinatra was called Ole Blue Eyes):
She's into everything and at the moment she is on my legs behind the laptop. (So I can't see her but she is clawing at my jeans)
Today is T for Tuesday hosted by Elizabeth and Bluebeard so I need a drink. The other day someone gave me an aubergine (egg plant in America). They are nice in ratatouille but I get one given to me often as everyone grows them. So this time I air fried them in slices and then drizzled Miel de Caña (it's like honey) over it. Yummy!
My glass is visible, but still empty. So this time it's a drink reference in stead of a drink.
Oh here is some coffee:
Thats it from me today.
Happy T-Day!
Hugs,
Lisca