Hello lovely peeps,
Again the week has come to an end and a (hopefully exciting) weekend lays ahead. I have a postcard to show you from Germany:
It as sent to me by Helen, who lives in Wilhelmshaven, somewhat to the west of this area.
It's an old card as the old East-West border is clearly indicated in red.
I spot a village called Wittenburg (on the east side) and I remember as a child having a pen friend who lived there. Her name was Gitte. She wrote with a typical German handwriting, which is beautiful, but totally illegible to me so my dad had to help me out. I wonder what became of her.
There are some pretty stamps on the card:
The two stamps the left are paper art to do with letter writing. The stamp on the right has the pride banner on it and in small letters at the bottom I read: 'Delivered with pride 2025'. A clever play on words. The title 'Love Wins' of course is also very appropriate.
What have I been doing? I have been ill last weekend as you probably have read in my Tuesday blogpost. I still had to go out and one of those I-don't-want-to-miss-this occasions was the baptism of my friend Janet in a friend's swimming pool. She had been a Christian for 60 years but had never been 'dunked'.
Here she is raising her arms triumphantly. Martin on the left is reading the translation of her testimony for the Spanish speakers (which were most people).
I didn't stay for the party as I was feeling really ill.
That morning I had wanted to poach an egg in the microwave. (put water in a small dish with a splash of vinegar. Add egg. Cook on 700 watt for 20 seconds, check, then another 20 seconds, and again of necessary). I hear a loud 'Bang!' And this is what I saw:
Now I know we are here to remember our smiles of the week but this certainly did not make me smile! I had forgotten to set the microwave to 700 watt and it had been cooking on 1100 watt! I wouldn't normally make that mistake but I was ill and my brain was clearly not playing ball.
By Monday I was okay again. On Wednesday I was walking to my friend's house for a prayer meeting and some of my other friends came by and offered me a lift. Normally I would have preferred to walk but look at the car!
What a fun cabriolet. People don't drive convertibles here as it's so hot, it's better to have the airco on and be cool.
Talking about cars, here's one for Angela (she like classic cars and so do I):
This was parked in the center of Caniles. What a beauty!
It's a Packard and my guess is a 1947 model. I just expect any minute President Rooseveldt to climb out of it.
I never found out who it belonged to and the next day it was gone. It is definitely the most beautiful car I have ever seen. It was immaculate inside and out.
That's enough excitement for one day. I'll leave you with some funnies at the end. And now let's go over to Annie's at A Stitch In Time for some more smiles.
Enjoy your weekend,
Lisca