Hello lovely girls,
This week has flown by. Sometimes I find it hard to remember what has happened during the week, especially in weeks where nothing seems to happen. But I will try to recall.
First of all I would like to show you a very unusual postcard:
It is called a Maxi-card as it has the stamp on the front and the stamp has the same image as the card. It is sold by the postal service of a country as a first edition.
In this case it celebrates 50 years of colour TV by the Australian Broadcasting corporation. The program featured is The Aunty Jack Show.
Aunty Jack was a unique comic creation, an obese, moustachioed, gravel-voiced transvestite, part truckie, part pantomime-dame, who habitually solved any problem by knocking someone out or ripping their arms off.
The character was devised and played by the multi-talented Grahame Bond and was partly inspired by an overbearing uncle of Grahame's whom he had disliked as a child.
She rode a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and referred to everyone as "me little lovelies" – when she was not uttering her familiar threat: "I'll rip yer bloody arms off!", a phrase which immediately passed into the vernacular.
In the Australian National Archives (online) I found this:
This special episode of The Aunty Jack Show, broadcast on 1 March 1975 two years after the series officially ended, was the first ABC program to contain a colour segment in its broadcast.
The transition to colour was a significant development in television broadcasting and Australians quickly and enthusiastically adapted to the change. Almost 80 per cent of homes owned a colour television set within five years of its introduction.
How has my week been? Friday was my day for errands. I went into town to buy groceries and also bags of pellets for my stove. I can only fit 8 bags in my boot and they are 15 kilos each, so once home I have to drag them out of the car and into the house where I have to descend 56 steps into my flat. So what I do is leave them at the top of the stairs until a suitable male can help me carry them down.
Saturday was dry with sunny spells so I immediately turned the washing machine on and washed bed sheets and duvet covers as I had another guest coming that coming week.
In the evening I attended Intercambio, our language practice session:
On Sunday I went to church as per usual and watched Songs Of Praise on TV (an English religious program). In the afternoon I attempted to do a bit more on my jigsaw:
It is a painting by Klimt:
I'm finding it very difficult.
On Monday my friend next door gave me some organic oranges. I asked Chatgbt what I could do with them apart from the obvious. It came up with some recipes, one of which I used and baked this cake:
It was lovely. Here is the recipe:
I think that's enough of me. I'll post some funnies at the end for you to giggle at.
Enjoy your weekend,
Lisca
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