Hello lovely peeps,
We've made it through another week and there have been lots of smiles and positive moments.
A postcard always makes me smile, and particularly this one:
It comes from Russia and was sent to me by Boris. I had never heard of this book. I looked on the Internet and found this:
These three charming books were printed by Puffin Books in the 1940’s. They don’t seem to have been reprinted, not just by Puffin but by anyone, which bearing in mind that they are for very young readers, or more likely parents reading to young children, and their inherently fragile nature consisting of just eight sheets of paper, including the covers, folded and stapled in their centre makes finding them in good condition extremely difficult.
The Holiday Train Goes To The Moon is the last book in the series, not just of the Holiday Train but of Baby Puffins themselves as an imprint was published in April 1948 as the ninth Baby Puffin.
The book tells the story of The Holiday Train being surprised by Carrumpus, a magical character who introduces himself saying “I come to visit trains when they get tired or overworked and cheer them up.” He does this by granting them a wish.
As you can see above The Holiday Train wishes he could fly and soon he has wonderful golden wings so he could fly around rather than running on rails.
Soon he decides to travel to the moon where he finds a railway, but not one like at home as here the carriages pull the locomotive rather than the other way round. But nevertheless The Holiday Train sets off to explore.
A fun story. The stamps are great too:
The stamp on the right features S. V. Kovalevskaya. Wikipedia writes: Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya born Korvin-Krukovskaya; 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1850 – 10 February 1891) was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer of equality for women in mathematics. Kovalevskaya was the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics, in the modern sense of that term, the first woman appointed to a full professorship in mathematics (and one of the first appointed to a full professorship in any discipline), as well as one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor. According to historian of science Ann Hibner Koblitz, Kovalevskaya was "the greatest known woman scientist before the twentieth century"
Clever lady!
The left hand stamp celebrates 450 years of Ufa.
The postage stamp provides an image of the monument to M. Shaimuratov, the building of the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre against the background of the city panorama.
The query "450 years UFA" refers to the 450th anniversary of the city of Ufa, the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan, which was celebrated in 2024
The city was founded in 1574, and this milestone was marked by official celebrations, congratulations from figures like Vladimir Putin, and commemorative events, according to Russian sources and news outlets.
Apparently there is a beautiful mosque in Ufa:
This photo is from 2015 and it looks like they are getting the mosque cleaned up before the big celebration.
What has been happening here in Spain? Well, Monday saw me driving to Murcia airport again as my daughter was leaving. On Tuesday my friends Kim and Andy came to lunch.
My cat Ronnie loves to sit on Andy's lap. When they arrive I call Ronnie and say: Your favourite lap has arrived.
On Wednesday I go to the gym.
We do all sorts of exercises with weights on our ankles and sometimes we use dumbells or elastics. The chairs are there for balance as most of us are older ladies.
And here am I posing with Ana:
Yesterday evening I went to yoga (no photos) and on the way home I photographed the Ginko Biloba tree in our village . There are several, but this one is pretty as its leaves are changing colour:
The ginko biloba leaves are very recognisable:
The look like wings.
Also yesterday my dinner consisted of lamb's liver. I like liver and I like to eat it at least once a year.
I cooked lots of onions and then some French green beans. Then I flash fried the liver slices. Very nice it was too. Of course I didn't eat all that. That were two portions.
That was my week. Lots of smiles.
I will leave you some funnies at the end like I always do, but for now, I will say: Have a lovely weekend and keep smiling!
Lisca
6 comments:
Good evening, I really enjoyed your post-those vintage books sound amazing to see. I should find an exercise group like that-I have lost a lot of muscle and weight since last spring. Happy Friday
Kathy
Being in railway I sure would LOVE to have these books!
And.. looking at Germany´s rails... trains sure wished they could flyx (we´ll take the Flixbus to Frankfurt!).
Great, meaningful stamp, too.
Wish Russia had a real, peaceful leader and not that destroying smurf...
The favorite lap made me giggle.
To sport and... liver... I´ll send Ingo over, if you like but I pass that dish.
BIG LOL on the AI-one! OMG, the Schnauzer... Grammar... and eyesight... and bear!!!!
Have a great Friday!
What an interesting card today. I have never heard ofthe books but they sound fun for thelittle ones.
Your ginko biloba tree is very pretty. I know the leaves; they are used a lot in craft. But I don't think I have ever seen them on a tree.
I cook liver regularly. We both like pigs liver and chicken livers, but mum always insisted it sould be Lamb's liver.
Lots of good funnies tostart our day smiling. I haven't posted my link because you seem to find me anyway. Kate xx
Looks like another good week here Lisca. Love the postcard and the stamps too. I always fancied the little terrapins until someone said they grow quite big and need more space but they are cute. Turtles are an amazing creature and not surprised you love them. Ronnie looks well and much bigger, he's a very smart cat. We love liver too though don't have it as often as we would like. I usually make it into Russian Liver a recipe I've used quite a lot. Thanks for the funnies too, love them. Think I must have missed your Schnauzer funny but will go back and have another look later. Have a good weekend. Hugs Angela xXx
Oh we were only talking about liver recently, we usually have it with mash potatoes and onion gravy.
You seem to enjoy keeping active and are always on the go, which is brilliant.
The tree is very pretty, I've never seen the leaf before.
Hope you are having a good day.
I'm catching up at the end of a long holiday weekend that ended up too busy for me. :) I haven't heard of these train books either. It's interesting they are in English, so I guess they must be many places and not just in Russia. Of course I haven't heard of Kovalevskaya either, but I always enjoying learning about new people and places. And speaking of places, I love your gym instructor's sweatshirt. I'm a native of Massachusetts, and have been to Boston many many times. It's one of my favorite cities. It was fun to see it mentioned in your post. Have a great end of your weekend and start to the new month too. hugs-Erika
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