MANILVA TODAY FRIEND'S RE UNITED.

TUESDAY 13TH. APRIL 2010.

Today as you can see in the pictures below it is rather cloudy and overcast but it is still warm,20degs. First thing this morning we walked around to the surgery as Brenda had an appointment to get her Anti-Tetanus booster jab, on the way back we bumped into Lume, the wife of the owner of Bar Rojas, they have been closed for the last three days as Manola’s father had died down in Estepona.Brenda then went on an extreme cleaning spree, mopping all the Marble floors, cleaning all the tiles in both kitchens, washing and polishing all the cupboards and then taking down and washing the net curtains in the lounge, I was tired out just watching her but I did hold the small ladder when she was putting the curtains back up !

We then went for a walk down through the village as we needed some English tea bags; on the way I took the pictures below to remind you about the village. Whilst we were out we bumped into lots of people,Andy,who lost his wife a few weeks ago was coming out of the post office, the owner of the bar that Mano use’s a lot shouted to me as he had kept some Semana Santa posters for me, the Mayor was just leaving the new council chambers on the left of the police station so we talked about the fast progress on the new Wine Center, next we passed Carlos’s house and the door was open, he and his wife Anna Mari were painting so we stopped to say hello, a friend of his, Brian was there also and as we talked it came up about our Spanish mobile going Russian; the other day we tried to get it fixed down in the office in Estepona,with no luck, so we had to buy a new one, it only cost three euros as they gave us twelve euros credit on the old one ! Anyway he went on the Internet and immediately managed to fix it, so now for the time being I have two Spanish mobiles ! On the way back Mano was in the Bar for a meeting so we caught up with him, we found the tea bags in the smallest shop,Toto;s who gets them in for Anna and finally as we got back to the house Anna called in for a cup of tea, which luckily we had !!

It just goe’s to show you what a small world it is in Manilva !!