A Postcard A Day - Friday 6 October 2023 - Friday Smiles

 

Hello lovely ladies,

Here we are again on a Friday, sharing our smiles and bright moments of the past week.

I've had lots of lovely moments this week and I will share a few, but first let me show you a postcard:

Such lovely smiles! It would brighten up anyone's day and it certainly brightened up my day when I received it. I had been sad because my mother passed away and these smiles helped me.

The card was posted in the UK and the stamps are really gorgeous:

The stamp on the left is from a 2004 series about The Lord Of The Rings:

What a beautiful series!

From left to right at the top you can see

Map showing Middle Earth:

Next to that, the Forest of Lothlorien in Spring

Third from left features the Dust-jacket for The Fellowship of the Ring:

Fourth from left we have Rivendell:

Top right is The Hall at Bag End (Oh I love that one!):

Then bottom left: Orthanc

Second from the left: Doors of Durin

 

Third from left: Barad-dur

Fourth from left: Minas Tirith

Bottom right, Fangorn Forest

The other stamp on the postcard is from 2003 and commemorates 

the 50th Anniversary of the Coronation:

Children in Plymouth working on Royal Montage

(Sorry, not very high resolution)

Now quickly, what have I been up to? I'm in the UK at the moment. 

I flew to England on Thursday 28th, here I am flying over Spain and the Mediterranean Sea:

And This is England (Much greener):

 I have stayed with my son and family in Windsor. 

On Saturday I was treated to an Afternoon Tea at a posh restaurant in Windsor (See Tuesday 3 October) On Sunday they took me to London and we visited the Tate Modern. I had never been and it was fun.

There was so much to see, we only did a few floors. One installation was entirely made of old radios:

Some rooms had famous paintings, like these by Roy Lichtenstein:

I particularly liked this 'curtain' of precious stones:

I've not been able to find out much about this. On the far right you see a pile of coal. I suppose it is all a form of carbon....

Then we went up to the tenth floor to enjoy the view over London:

The above high building is called The Shard.

On my photo it's only half visible, but here is the Wikipedia photo:

In the above photo you can see St Paul's Cathedral (With the dome).

We drove over Trafalgar Square and could just about see Nelson standing on his pillar.

I saw the famous Ritz hotel. (I took these last two out of the car window so not very good picture).

At the moment I'm in North Devon at a retreat. I will write more about that in a later blogpost.

I think 'll leave it at that. I'm going to link up with Annie at A Stitch In Time to share my smiles.

As per usual, I'll leave some funnies at the end.

Have a lovely weekend all,

Hugs,

Lisca

The next one is not very PC, but it made me smile (thinking about British doctor's secretaries that I have known)