Good morning lovely girls! For those of you who are working: It's nearly weekend!! So let me tell you what made me smile this week. Quite a lot actually, as life is less hectic now and I can relax a bit.
But, let's start with my postcard:
It was sent to me by my friend Maggie. She had visited Malmesbury Abbey.
This is what it says on the back of the card:
This is what the cathedral looks like today (Photo from Wikipedia):
Wikipedia then writes: Malmesbury Abbey, at Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, is a former Benedictine abbey dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul. It was one of the few English religious houses with a continuous history from the 7th century through to the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Wikipedia
The abbey, which owned 23,000 acres (93 km2) in the twenty parishes that constituted the Malmesbury Hundred, was closed at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 by Henry VIII and was sold, with all its lands, to William Stumpe, a rich merchant. He returned the abbey church to the town for continuing use as a parish church, and filled the abbey buildings with up to 20 looms for his cloth-weaving enterprise.
The west tower fell around 1550, demolishing the three westernmost bays of the nave. As a result of these two collapses, less than half of the original building stands today.
The inside looks like this today:
Maggie put the card in an envelope so she could use all these beautiful stamps.
Beautiful images of a young Queen Elizabeth.
What have I been doing? We had some fun in the village last week with the Auto Locos (Crazy Cars):
I had found a place on a corner behind some straw bales:
I could see them careering down the first hill.
Lots of people on the other side of the street.
There were different categories.
Down this road there were ramps that caused a lot of laughs but I couldn't see them unfortunately.
It has been a quiet week as my car is in for repair. (Someone drove into my car while it was parked and it sustained quite a lot of damage). I'm not expecting it back until next week. I was offered a substitute car as I was insured for that, but I would have had to go and collect it in Almería, which is a long way away (165 km) and not easy to get to by public transport. So I will stay put in the village.
I have had time to have video calls with friends and family. My son celebrated his 48th birthday. He lives in Italy so I couldn't be there, but we chatted (Thank the Lord for modern technology) and I got some photos:
That is all from me today. I'm going to link up with Annie at A Stitch In Time and of course I will add some funnies at the end, but in the meantime, I wish you all a lovely weekend,
Lisca