A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 13 December 2022 - T for promises

 Hello lovely ladies, I'm back again to join the T-Party, hosted by Elizabeth and Bleubeard.  It's all a bit strange but friends are making sure I'm not on my own a lot. Let me show you my postcard for today and then I'll tell you what I've been up to.

The card comes to me from Germany. The translation reads: "God fulfills not all our desires, but all his promises."

The stamp is the Pied Piper of Hamlin.

The legend dates back to the Middle Ages, the earliest references describing a piper, dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing, who was a rat catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizens refuse to pay for this service as promised, he retaliates by using his instrument's magical power on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. This version of the story spread as folklore and has appeared in the writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm, and Robert Browning, among others.

There are many contradictory theories about the Pied Piper. Some suggest he was a symbol of hope to the people of Hamelin, which had been attacked by plague; he drove the rats from Hamelin, saving the people from the epidemic.

I've had a very good week. A friend from the UK asked me if I would like some company, and she hopped on a flight last week and spent 6 days with me. She was a tonic! 

One of the things we did was put up some modest decorations. Some tinsel on the glass cabinet and the window sill of a high window. But that window sill is above the sofa and doesn't get dusted very often! So we had to get the feather duster out.

We went shopping one day and I bought a red throw for the sofa, and to match with my two cute little doggies.

And of course the photo of Graham and me got the tinsel treatment:

The weather was bad (for Spanish standards):

We had a lot of rain (much needed) but it was combined with gale force winds. Nasty.

But my English friend was determined she was going to sit outside, come rain or shine:

So because of the weather we didn't go anywhere. We stayed mostly at home and cooked nice things. One day we cooked rabbit:

Cooked it in my dutch oven.

As this is T-Day, I should show you a drink. My glass of wine is not really visible in the above photo, so I'll do another one.

This time it is a cup of herbal tea with my scrambled egg on toast breakfast:

Lastly I want to show you a photo of our cat who lives in the shed and on the top terrace:

She's very shy, but doesn't run away anymore when I come up to feed her. We call her Scallywag (This name dates from the time she was a naughty kitten).

That is it from me today. I apologize for not visiting and commenting so much these days. Thank you for your patience. I promise in the new year I will get myself in some sort of routine and will visit as many of you as I can.

This is an image from Bologna (Italy)

Happy T-Day,

Hugs,

Lisca