A Postcard A Day - Friday 21 November 2025 - Friday Smiles

 Hello lovely peeps,

Have you all had a good week? Here it's all 'hunky-dory' (a very English expression meaning 'Okay').

My daughter is staying with me at the moment, so I'm enjoying her company. I'm going to show you my postcard and other things that made me smile this week.

This delightful postcard shows beautiful Thai ladies greeting us with 'Sawasdee'. It was sent to me by Ewa who lives in New York but loves to travel to Thailand. She goes there every year she writes. Ewa is from the Ukraine, from a town called Kropyvnytskyi(formerly: Yelisavetgrad,      Kirovohrad) 

Wikivoyage writes: It is the administrative center of Kirovohrad Oblast. It is an industrial and cultural center of Kirovohrad Oblast. Kropyvnytskyi is located on the Dnieper Upland, on the banks of river Inhul. It is a motorway junction. There is a train station (Znamyanka - Pomoshnaya line) and a civilian airport. Kropyvnytskyi is not famous for its places of interest, but the downtown still bears the remnants of old architecture. 

Some of the old buildings are renovated and some are still in the process of renovation. The city administration is doing a good job of making Kropyvnytskyi a better place both for locals and tourists. The locals like to call Kropyvnytskyi "a little Paris" due to its resemblance to Paris before the Soviet Union have destroyed the look of the city in the 20th century.

Ewa writes it's called The City of One Million Tulips.

The stamp is the forever stamp showing the sempervivum:

She also added a beautiful sticker:

So, here in southern Spain the weather is getting cooler. I have had the stove on several evenings and I have put a duvet on my bed. I've also put away all my summer clothes (keeping a few bits and pieces aside for when I visit the Costa del Sol where it is always warmer).

Tuesday is the day that my friends Kim and Andy usually come to lunch, but on this occasion his car wouldn't start and he diagnosed that the alternator had packed up, so the rest of the day was spent (unsuccessfully) trying to get the part. In the end we did have a belated lunch and I took them shopping (as they live out in the country with nothing within walking distance) and then I took them home. 

On Wednesday morning I drove to Murcia Airport:

It's a two hour drive from here. I had (with Andy's help) rigged up my phone to play an internet radio station and my satnav, so it was a pleasant drive.

I parked in the covered car park (on the left in the above photo) and then waited in the cafe:

The flight was on time.

I've only just realised (now that I am looking at the photo) that the name Murcia is on the cladding of the building. You can see the big R and then the CIA.

I introduced T to my cat Ronnie:

 Yesterday, Thursday, we both went for a massage.

My daughter took a picture of me by the colourful hedge:

The jacket is the leather jacket I bought in Lisbon last year (for those of you who remember me writing about that trip).

I get the evening sun at he front and my daughter sat outside the front door for an hour basking in the sun:

Tomorrow, Friday, we are going swimming in the lake where there are thermal springs. Hot water comes out of the ground. That's very nice. I'm looking forward to it.

That's all for now from me.

Enjoy your weekend,

I'll try to find some more funnies and add them at the end.