A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 20 September 2022 /-T for

 Hello lovely ladies,

I am writing this on Monday afternoon and beside me I have my iPad with BBC News Channel playing images of the funeral cortege making its way to Windsor. Our son and d-i-l live in Windsor so it is very familiar to us.

So you won't be surprised that my postcard today has an Elizabethan theme:

It's a card that comes to me from the USA. The card has the image of a stamp, commemorating HM the Queen's silver jubilee.

The stamps are really nice. The middle one features the Boston State Home. Wikipedia says this:

The Massachusetts State House, also known as the Massachusetts Statehouse or the New State House, is the state capitol and seat of government for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. The building houses the Massachusetts General Court (state legislature) and the offices of the Governor of Massachusetts. The building, designed by architect Charles Bulfinch, was completed in January 1798 at a cost of $133,333 (more than five times the budget), and has repeatedly been enlarged since. It is one of the oldest state capitols in current use. It is considered a masterpiece of Federal architecture and among Bulfinch's finest works, and was designated a National Historic Landmark for its architectural significance.

Here are some colour pictures taken from the Internet:

Now for some more special stamps. Thank you Elizabeth for using so many different stamps.:

The Purple Heart Medal is new to me. 

The Purple Heart Medal stamp design features a photograph taken by Ira Wexler of a Purple Heart medal awarded during World War II. The 2011 Purple Heart with Ribbon stamp was reworked in 2012 to display a slightly larger image of the Purple Heart medal on a pure white background. Designed by art director Jennifer Arnold, the stamp was given the name Purple Heart Medal.

This envelope arrived this morning! It had lovely napkins in it. Aren't they lovely. I can see myself do a lot of fussy cutting.

Haha, you can see my feet!

One of the napkins (Jo's I believe) is like a ten pound note. Here is a real bank note underneath:

And of course here are my two ATCs. The one on the right is from Jo and on the left from Elizabeth and Bluebeard. Bluebeard himself featuring in this splendid work of art.

We've just come back from the UK and I still had some bank notes in my purse. The real banknotes have a transparent part as you can see in the following photo:

And some sort of hologram in that transparent part:

Many of you will be asking how my husband is. We saw our GP last week and he revised the medication. He stopped the antibiotics that hubby had been taking for so long. But then on Friday morning in the middle of the night he woke up shaking and had very high fever. (40 degrees C or 104 F) And he has been poorly ever since. Needless to say, the antibiotics have quickly been reinstated. I did a Covid test on him but that was negative. Today is the first day he is (almost) without fever. So things are looking up. On Thursday we will be seeing the oncologist at the hospital. I hope he is well enough to start the chemo therapy.

I've had some more happy mail:

It is a postcard from Kathy in Ozark. She has made this herself and she wanted me to have one. Isn't it lovely! Thank you Kathy.

Now as this is a blog for the T-Party organized by Elizabeth and Bleubeard, I owe you all some drinks. In the following photo my drink is a cider. The waitress asked me: 'Cloudy or clear'? I said 'clear'. Very nice it was too.

This is hubby's sister and b.i.l who came to visit us when we were in the caravan in Devon on Exmoor (a beautiful part of the world). We took them to a pub that does food (very good food I might add). 

I had a crab dish with salad. And my brother in law had a hamburger.

I do like to recognize what I eat. In some places you get an undefined 'goo' on your plate and you just have to believe it is chicken (or whatever it is supposed to be). I don't often eat crab (and it was locally caught) so I really enjoyed this.

The dessert was something deliciously chocolaty with some honeycomb on top. The white orb is clotted cream. Yumm!

I really wanted to show you the lovely fireplace in the background, but when I took the picture, the waitress offered to take one. Hubby is pointing out to me that the waitress was hovering behind me.Hope you can see the fireplace better here.

The outside of the pub looks like this:

That is it from me today. I will link up with Elizabeth and Bleubeard at Altered Book Lover.

Happy T-Day all!

Hugs,

Lisca