A Postcard A Day - Friday 25 July 2025 - Friday Smiles

 

Hello lovely ladies! How are you all? I have another postcard for you today:

It comes to me from Taiwan. It was sent by a lady called Queen. She writes on the back of the card that we're looking at face threading. It was popular decades ago, though not so much now.

Queen writes that she has often had it done to her in the past.

Printed on the back of the card is (In English): "Taipei Night Market: Face threading is the oldest facial purifying technique by using one single cotton thread to transform all girls into superstars."

The stamps are fun and colourful:

Good old Google translate tells me the stamp on the left is called 'Intergrity'. And the one on the right is 'Inheritance'.

What have I been doing? This week as my son (from Italy) was staying with his wife and son, we  had many smiles. The one thing we didn't smile about was the scorpion that had the audacity to bite my son's toe!

Here he is, all battered to death. I don't like killing animals but this one was definitely not welcome on my patio!

Scorpions in our area are not lethal for humans, but bites are extremely painful. So my son was on a lot of painkillers for a couple of days. 

They have now flown back to Italy. I drove them to Malaga, where the airport is. As they had to be at the airport at 5 in the morning, I booked us into the Travelodge hotel 5 minutes from the airport. But.... I got the date wrong and the booking was non-refundable, so I had to book another night. It did mean we had two nights and a whole day to explore Malaga.

The pedestrianised streets in the centre had sun shades which was good as it was so hot.

In this same street there were people playing chess. The end tables were for children and several of them were playing too.

Now I'm back and I can finally unpack my suit case as I'm not going anywhere for at least a month.

This might make you smile. Ronni hiding in my suitcase.

Another thing that made me smile was that the missing box of patio furniture finally turned up. I had ordered some patio furniture and thought it might be nice for it to be here when my son comes. He had already volunteered to put it together for me. But the consignment was 3 boxes and only two arrived. After a bit of communicating back and forth, the last box arrived on the day my son flew home. In fact I wasn't home yet when it arrived and had to ask the driver to deliver it to a nearby petrol station, owned by a friend who often takes in parcels.

Anyway, this is the result. I'm very happy with it.

That is all from me today. I'm going to have my nails done this evening, and then Im going to visit my friend Patricia. All nice things.

Of course I'll be off to Annie at A Stitch In Time for some more smiles. And there will be some funnies at the end.

Enjoy your weekend,

Lisca