A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 14 April 2026 - T for

 Hello lovely girls,

I have an unusual postcard for you today. It's from Kyrgystan:

The postcard features people drinking tea in a yurt.

Wikipedia says:

Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, formerly known as Kirghizia, is a landlocked country in the eastern regions of Central Asia, lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges. It is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and China to the east and southeast.

Well of course I had no idea where that country is so I looked it up on the map:

Closer in:

I would call it 'Far-away-ystan'!

Apparently a very beautiful country:

Photos found on the Internet.

Some people live in yurts:

The postcard features people drinking tea in a yurt.

The postcard was posted in Russia, so has Russian postage stamps:

Anyway, I thought drinking tea in Kyrgystan was a good 'ticket' to Elizabeth and Bluebeard's T-Party.

Talking about drinking tea.... a few days ago my friend Dian brought me a packet of cannoli, an Italian treat:

(Excuse the bag clip)  It was Italian Week in a local supermarket. These cannoli were filled with pistachio creme. Yumm! Very nice with a cup of tea.

My weekend was uneventful as the weather has turned again and we have had thunder storms and strong winds and lots of rain. I haven't been anywhere apart from Saturday night. 

Normally I would host Intercambio, but nobody fancied leaving the home fires, so my friend Eva and her husband suggested we just go for a drink. Which we did. Next to the bar, there were lovely climbing plants hanging from the first floor balcony. 

I think the purple one is Wisteria. I don't know about the yellow one. Gorgeous or what! Spring is here!

That is all for now,

Happy T-Day all!

Lisca

 

A Postcard A Day - Friday 10 April 2026 - Friday Smiles

 Hello lovely peeps,

I have another interesting postcard for you. This one has a recipe:

Although this recipe is Austrian, the card comes to me from Germany, from a guy named Uwe. He bought the card on a weekend away with his wife in Vienna.

I have an Internet recipe which is easier to follow. Find it here.

The stamps are the German 'paper world' stamps:

They are all mail related. On the left a water lily made out of envelopes, in the middle a message in a bottle. On the right, the plane's vapor trail is made of envelopes.

Here spring has arrived. The weather has been generally sunny and warm. My lemon tree is budding, and one of my cacti is starting to flower:

I've bought some tulips again, my favorite flowers:

I'll leave you with a photo of Ronnie sleeping in a most awkward position:

That's all from me today (apart from some funnies at the end).

Enjoy the weekend and I hope you all have some better weather.

Lisca

A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 7 April 2026 - T for hymns, horses and a picnic

Hello lovely peeps,

I hope you have all had a lovely Easter weekend, which in most European countries extended into Monday too. (And in the US too?) Not in Spain though. Easter Monday is a normal working day. But don't feel sorry for the Spanish. They have had Holy Week, where many people have the week off and businesses (and shops) close from Thursday. 

I'm going to show you an Easter card which I received from one of my dear friends:

It is by artist Hannah Dunnett and depicts a landscape with the words to a famous hymn written through it. The hymn is Thine Be The Glory, which I'm sure most people will have heard, whether or not one is a Christian. I really love it and probably will have it framed. I have had work by this artist framed before but the one I had got 'bleached' by the sun, so now I have another one. Thank you Maggie!

The stamps are these:

With a beautiful Photo of Queen Elizabeth. 

I am amazed by the price of postage: 3.15 Pounds Sterling! And I'm complaining it's expensive here, but in England it is obviously even dearer.

I have had a quiet Easter weekend. I had no visitors, and had some lazy sunny days on my own, reading my e-book and listening to my Audible book. Erika (Bioartgirl) got me into audio books and I am a 'convert'. I'm listening at home, doing household chores and outdoors when I walk to the gym or the shops. The book I'm listening to is Black Notice by Joy Ellis.

Read what's it about here. It's 14 and a half hours long. Great! I'm halfway and loving it.

The e-book I'm reading is Bee Speaker:

It's sci-fi, not usually my genre but I'm finding it fascinating. Read about it here. 

As I said, I had a quiet weekend. I live in a rural location and I passed a bar with seating outside (The weather has been gorgeous) and there was a group of men, obviously horse riders as they had their horses tied up opposite:

On Sunday our little church decided to have a picnic to celebrate Easter, so we went to a local beauty spot:

There are several bottles of water on the table and a bottle of Aquarius. This is my 'ticket' for the T-Party hosted by Elizabeth and Bluebeard.

The river next to the picnic site was flowing. It is the first time I have seen water in it. Usually it's dry but we have had a bad winter. The waterfall/weir is spectacular:

The picnic site is flanked on the other side by an abandoned village. The villagers used the ancient irrigation channels to water their vegetable gardens, but since they have abandoned the village, the canals have dried up and a lot of the trees have died. 

They get dry and get blown over. There were many such trees. One of the things they used to produce was silk but of course also the mulberry trees have died. But many are still there. 

A bit further along I spotted a field that was still being cultivated. It had a very unusual scare-crow:

It looks like a shop window mannequin!

That's all from me. I will leave you with a photo of Ronnie:

Happy T-Day,

Lisca

A Postcard A Day - Friday 3 April 2026 - Friday Smiles

 Hello lovely peeps. Here I am with some more smiles. Of course first I'm going to show you a postcard that made me smile:

It comes to me from Germany and was sent by Jenny who lives in Berlin. She writes that she started junk journaling last year and enjoys it.

The stamp is the standard German European stamp with mail related items imagined in paper:

My week has gone by quite quickly. This week is holy week in Spain. The schools are off and people are busy getting ready for Easter. There are lots of processions. Every evening. I haven't gone to see any of them so no photos, sorry. I'll post some photos next week when the Town Hall releases the official ones.

On Wednesday my friends came to lunch. I had made a lovely cottage pie. Not a normal one but a 'devilled' one. That is a lot spicier than the usual cottage pie.

Here is Kim:

There is no gym or Pilates this week so I have been having lovely lazy days, reading, doing my jigsaw,, writing postcards and scrolling on my phone. I have spent more than an hour this afternoon deleting unwanted emails. I don't want to delete everything, so I go through them and delete only the ones that I don't need.

The weather is gorgeous. Warm and sunny, so I am spending a lot of time on my patio. The furniture is out and I have ordered a lot of (artificial) plants and flowers to put in the pots. The weather here is extremely hot in summer and no plant survives this harsh climate. (I have learnt the hard way). 

Of course Ronnie the cat loves it out here. 

He jumps onto the window sill and loves sitting (or lying) in the window box.

And in the evenings he lies on my lap when I'm indoors:

As always I have some funnies for you at the end.

Happy Easter to those who celebrate it!

Enjoy your weekend,

Lisca