A Postcard A Day - Friday 17 April 2026 - Friday Smiles

 Hello lovely peeps,

Gosh time is flying, Friday has arrived! I have a postcard to share with you and I will tell you what I have been doing this week and show you what made me smile. Then at the end I have some funnies for you.

My card today comes from Prague:

Wikipedia writes:

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Located on the Vltava River, the city has a population of about 1.4 million, making it the twelfth-largest city in the European Union. Its metropolitan area is home to approximately 2.3 million people.

The image on the postcard  shows the old town square and the Tyn church.

The Church of the Mother of God before Týn, or Church of Our Lady before Týn, is a Gothic church and a dominant feature of the Old Town of Prague, Czech Republic. It has been the main church of this part of the city since the 14th century. Wikipedia.

I've never been to Prague, but it's on my list of places I'd like to go. Apparently it's always packed with tourists and that is what is putting my off really. I would love to see that 'dancing building':

And the astronomical clock:

Or the powder Tower:

The stamp is pretty:

It shows the Infant Jesus of Prague.

Through AI I got the following info:

The Infant Jesus of Prague is a 16th-century wax-coated wooden statue of the Child Jesus holding a globus cruciger of Spanish origin, now located in the Discalced Carmelite Church of Our Lady of Victories in Malá Strana, Prague, Czech Republic. The original statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague was created as a royal wedding gift from a Spanish Princess to her Austrian royal cousin.

 It is renowned worldwide for reported miracles, particularly regarding health, family protection, and financial needs, and is often dressed in10 different robes annually.

    What has been going on in my household? I have been buying artificial flowers to put in my (super hot) patio. Real plants just die with the heat. So this is a bit of an experiment.

Below are my real tulips. I bought those last week so they are nearly going over, but look, I've put some (fake)mimosa among the stems and it looks really nice:

Outside I have begun to put some of the plastic flowers out:

They are fun to look at. I'm happy with how it looks.

A few streets away from my house I spotted this tree in bloom:

I have no idea what it is but it's pretty.

What else has been happening. Oh yes, my dishwasher had broken down and finally I've had someone look at it:

It's in my pantry, so not much room for manouvering. But he mananged to get it out, and manhandle it to just outside the front door:

And here it sits, waiting for the repairman to bring round his van. Bye bye dishwasher. I hope you can come back soon.

That is all from me today. 

I will leave you with some funnies at the end.

I wish you all a great weekend,

Lisca

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