Hello lovely ladies, Here we are on the 15th of August, a public holiday in southern Europe as it's the Assumption of Mary. This is the day to visit Rome (for example)m as it will be empty. Everybody has gone on holiday! Here in Caniles, everything is shut and people are also going away. I've planned to go out with my Danish friends tonight, so I hope there will be something open....
Let me show you a postcard that arrived a few days ago:
It was sent to me by Monique who lives in the Netherlands, so she wrote to me in my own language. The card itself is an image of Steampunk Mushrooms. I love steampunk, so this is a card I love. The artist is (I had to lift the washi tape to be able to read this): Melkozerova Elizaveta, a Russian artist. She has created a lot of lovely images and postcards. There is a postcard website (In Kazakhstan of all places) that sell a lot of her art and I am sorely tempted to buy some myself.
The stamp is a used stamp as she has sent this postcard in a home-made envelope with somme other bits and pieces.
The writing on the stamp reads 'sparen', which is Dutch for 'saving'.
The stamp features a 25 cent coin which I remember well. The Netherlands changed to the Euro in 1999 with a three year transition period. A banking website writes:
The euro banknotes and coins were introduced in the Netherlands on 1 January 2002, after a transitional period of three years when the euro was the official currency but only existed as 'book money'. The dual circulation period – when both the guilder and the euro had legal tender status – ended on 28 January 2002.
I don't remember much of this as I left the country in 1977.
What have I been doing? I bought an induction hob. A small one as my electricity supply can't cope with more than 2000W. Of course I can have more but I've chosen the cheapest tariff.
But that's not what I wanted to show you. This Friday blog is about smiles and this made me smile:
Ronni immediately appropriated the box and had hours of fun with it.
He's now sitting behind me on the sofa:
That's it for this Friday. I will of course leave some funnies at the end for you to chuckle over.
Now it's time to visit Annie at A Stitch In Time for some more smiles.
Have a lovely weekend,
Lisca
6 comments:
I can´t remember if we had a transition time from Deutsche Mark to Euro....
I remember everybody whining about losing the ""strong D-Mark"....
Ronnie is the cutest!
Henry still laughs...
I can see you get a lot of pleasure from your fur baby...they are good company. Your little hob is perfect I'm sure.
Hugs,
Annie x
I hope you get on well with your new hob. Don't you have to buy special pans for an induction hob? And did you know that no-one with a pacemaker etc must go near it? I just learned this from a lady at my son's church who had to rethink her new kitchen when she found out . I shall be fitting out a new kitchen soon so it is good to know these things.
There was a special mass at the church last night for Assumption day but it is not widely celebrated here.
Lovely picture of the cat stretched out behind you. Kate x
Nice new induction burner (as we call them here across the pond). But even better is the joy Ronni got from the box. That's a super photo of the 2 of you. Have a great weekend and hope something is open for you tonight. hugs-Erika
I'm well in love with the postcard, Steampunk and mushrooms...perfect. As far as Ronni's concerned the box was the important delivery, anything else is just waste. I just love the shredder funny, I can relate to that Lol! Have a great weekend. Hugs Angela xXx
Some great funny photos...xx
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