A Postcard A Day - Friday 29 July 2022 - Friday Smiles

 Hello lovely ladies'

I hope all is well with you. Here things are a lot more positive. Today we share our smile with Annie at A Stitch In Time so I will tell you more in a minute. Let me first show you one of my postcards. They always bring a smile to my face, and this one is very colorful:

The card comes from Germany and features a red tractor decorated with ears of grain.

The stamps are just as colorful. 

The large one represents the fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin. A tale collected by the brothers Grimm. 

Here is a better picture:

I've noticed a 40 cents surcharge for welfare charities. that is nice.

Here is the Wikipedia version of the fairy tale: (Are you all sitting comfortably?)

In order to appear superior, a miller brags to the king, telling him that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The king calls for the girl, locks her up in a tower room filled with straw and a spinning wheel, and demands she spin the straw into gold by morning or he will have her killed. When she has given up all hope, a little imp-like man appears in the room and spins the straw into gold in return for her necklace. The next morning the king takes the girl to a larger room filled with straw to repeat the feat, the imp once again spins, in return for the girl's ring. On the third day, when the girl has been taken to an even larger room filled with straw and told by the king that he will marry her if she can fill this room with gold or execute her if she cannot, the girl has nothing left with which she can pay the strange creature. He extracts a promise from her that she will give him her firstborn child, and so he spins the straw into gold a final time.

 

The king keeps his promise to marry the miller's daughter. But when their first child is born, the imp returns to claim his payment. She offers him all the wealth she has to keep the child, but the imp has no interest in her riches. He finally relents to give up his claim to the child if she can guess his name within three days.

The queen's many guesses fail. But before the final night, she wanders into the woods^{[note 5]} searching for him and comes across his remote mountain cottage and watches, unseen, as he hops about his fire and sings. In his song's lyrics—"tonight tonight, my plans I make, tomorrow tomorrow, the baby I take. The queen will never win the game, for Rumpelstiltskin is my name"—he reveals his name.

When the imp comes to the queen on the third day, after first feigning ignorance, she reveals his name, Rumpelstiltskin, and he loses his temper at the loss of their bargain. Versions vary about whether he accuses the devil or witches of having revealed his name to the queen. In the 1812 edition of the Brothers Grimm tales, Rumpelstiltskin then "ran away angrily, and never came back." The ending was revised in an 1857 edition to a more gruesome ending wherein Rumpelstiltskin "in his rage drove his right foot so far into the ground that it sank in up to his waist; then in a passion he seized the left foot with both hands and tore himself in two." Other versions have Rumpelstiltskin driving his right foot so far into the ground that he creates a chasm and falls into it, never to be seen again. In the oral version originally collected by the Brothers Grimm, Rumpelstiltskin flies out of the window on a cooking ladle.

Here in the K household things have been busy as we had hubby's daughter visiting. 

Some of you will have seen some photos on Facebook (I post things there so that my mum can 'see' them.)

We had a picnic one early evening:

And a selfie with my stepdaughter:

One night we went for a long walk. We did 13 km! It was organized by the local council. On Tuesday I will post more photos, but here is a selfie at the very start, when it was still light. We are walking in the street that goes past our house .

There were more than 50 participants and we were handed out head torches, reflecting arm bands and those bendy straws that light up when you bend them. (don't know what they are called). 

Then on Monday hubby had an appointment with the surgeon at the local hospital to have a subcutaneous reservoir fitted. 

Here we are on our way:

We went on the scooter as it is easier to park. 

The procedure was under local anesthetic and we were there almost all morning (what with covid test and blood test and preliminary chat with the surgeon etc). I had to wait outside in the corridor. I had a good book (and a new Kindle) so the time flew by). At 2 pm he was ready to go. 

Just a plaster to cover the stitches, as the device is under the skin. He is supposed to have chemotherapy again and that can be administered through this thing.

Well, that is all my news and all my smiles. I hope you all have had something to smile about. Please share it with us at Annie's.

Of course as per usual, I will put some funnies at the end. Most of them concern the extreme hot summer we seem to be having everywhere.

So keep smiling! and Keep cool!

Hugs,

Lisca