A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 5 February 2019 - T for copycat, hiding cat and stout

Hello lovely girls, It's Tuesday again! (Even though I am writing this on Monday night). The weather is so awful (rain and storm) that I am quite happy to spend an evening behind the computer. I am lucky enough to have a nice desktop computer in the living area. It has a huge screen and I love it. But I find myself using my iPad a lot too. I have noticed that my comments don't come through when I use my ipad, so I hereby apologise and I will try to use my desktop as much as possible.

First off are my postcards. The first one is from....ta-da....Valerie! My name was one of those chosen out of the hat. I got lucky and received the postcard of one of the installations that Valerie visited recently.

 She'll be able to tell much more about it, but this particular one is called Dark Pool and visiters are invited to sit at the desk which then triggers a sound track.
I managed to peel off the address sticker so we can all read what it says on the back. (I hope you can read it)

The second one is a postcard i received as a 'thank you' from someone in Holland that I had sent a postcard too. The card has no artist info, it just reads: 'Boomerang supports Kingsday'. I looked up Boomerang and it is one of the largest croud sourcing platforms in the Netherlands (Don't ask, I have no idea what that might be)

Anyway, the stamp is nice and the sender said it was about the Netherlands giving back some pieces of land to Belgium.

"Belgium and Netherlands agree to swap land to simplify border. While Belgium will be losing a splendid piece of nature that juts into the Meuse River dividing the two nations, it will also unburden itself of a jurisdictional nightmare that developed over time as the river meandered to turn the portion of land belonging to Belgium — about 15 soccer fields worth — into a peninsula linked only to the Netherlands. Over time, the area was rumoured to be increasingly lawless, a haven for drug dealers and illicit sexual escapades. Then, some three years ago, passers-by stumbled onto a headless body. “They alerted Dutch authorities, who told them it was Belgian territory,” said Jean-Francois Duchesne, police Commissaire of the Lower Meuse region.

In short, the Dutch could not go there because it was Belgian territory, and Belgian police and judicial authorities found it extremely tough to get there. They are not allowed to cross into the Netherlands without special permission and the peninsula had no proper landing zone for boats or equipment coming in by water.

“So we had to go there by boat with all that was needed — the prosecutor, the legal doctor, the judicial lab — we had to do round trips over the water. It really was not very practical,” Duchesne said.

And beyond that, Mr Neven remembered: “You had to jump from the boat onto the shore. You needed to be in shape for this.”

This week I finally finished my jigsaw puzzle. 

It is my favorite illustrator Colin Thompson. This one is called The Bizarre Bookshop 2. I already have done his Higgeldy-piggeldy House:

I love doing jigsaws. But this week I have also done some crafting. I'm afraid I have been a copycat. After seeing Halle's little collages, I got out the sewing machine and had a go! Wondeful! So theraputic! Thank you Halle for this great suggestion.

I started with blue as I had a strip of blue fabric. I don't have reams of it like some of you have. And I have no scraps at all as I don't sew. Then I found some ribbons and i did some other colours. It is very addictive i must say.

 While I was doing this, I somehow seemed to have 'lost' the cat. I found him hiding behind the stove in the corner.

I managed to photograph him in his hidyhole.

 Now for my beverage. I will be linking up with Elizabeth and Bluebeard for T for Tuesday. To join the T-Party we contribute a beverage. Mine is an alcolholic one this time. We are not great beer drinkers as in this part of Spain people only seem to drink lager. Anyway, we were at Lidls (German supermarket) and they were selling stout. We both love stout, so we treated ourselves to a bottle. It's probably not high quality stuff like Jo is used to drinking at the festivals she goes to (OK, I am slightly envious), but we thouroughly enjoyed this bottle.

That is it from me today,
Happy T-Day all of you,
Lisca