A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 10 January2023 - T for Finland and birthday cake

 Hello lovely girls! How are you all today? 

Oops, I-m late again, but I spent all evening traveling by bus from Marbella to Baza, where I arrived at 2 a.m.! I have been to the Netherlands to spend Christmas and New Year with my elderly mother (98).

I must admit I have not prepared a blog (no time). I haven't had time to transfer my photos to my computer so I will write about something that happened before I went to Holland.  But first let me share some postcards:

The first one is a map of Finland. It was sent to me by Satu. She lives in Hämeenlinna, which is sort of bottom left on the map. There are lots of forests, parks, lakes and golf courses and Satu goes for long walks in the forest with her young Jack Russel dog called Tappi. The card was written at the end of October and Satu writes that she is recovering from Covid and that she had been quite ill.

The stamp is really lovely. I real winter stamp with skates.

The second card is also a map card (I love those and I encourage people to send me one): 

It features the capital Helsinki. On the map of Finland above, you will find Helsinki in the south of the country if you follow the line of the ferry boat in your imagination. It seems to be heading for Helsinki.

The map of Helsinki was sent to me by Stephanie and she mentioned (Knowing that I am interested in lacemaking) that there is a lacemaking festival in a place called Rauma. I will have to look that up. (Sorry have no time now as I'm late as it is).

The stamp is the gorgeous swan that I have seen many times before but it is still one of the most beautiful stamps I've ever seen.

The week before I left for Holland has been fab, surrounded by caring friends, life felt ok.

 On the Sunday I had been invited by our friends for a Sunday lunch (see Tuesday 20th Dec's blog) and on Saturday in the afternoon I went to my friend's granddaughter's 5th birthday party at a cave restaurant. 

Blogger puts my photos in the wrong order, but above you see the little girl's grandad  and auntie playing 'Happy Birthday to you'.

She is a shy daddy's girl. And of course very tired when we finally got to the part of the birthday cake (the sun was setting).

Below is where my friend Antonia and I sat. Inside, as it was getting quite cool once the sun had gone.

You can see it is a cave restaurant as there is no straight wall in sight.

Of course as this is the T-Party hosted by Elizabeth and Bluebeard, I need a drink to be able to join. I am drinking a beer as you can see in the above photo.

Below is the cake before it got carried outside:

I will leave you with some Snoopy wisdom:

Wishing everybody a very happy T-Day!

Keep Smiling,

Hugs,

Lisca