WET BUT STILL SUNNY MANILVA AT THE START OF THE WEEKEND;

FRIDAY 28^th/ MARCH 2014.

We were up bright and early this morning, overnight the rains came but I just managed to take Scruffy out for his first walk of the day in a break, he was picked up by Adrian and Rose after he had his breakfast, we are really going to miss him till he’s back with us in a couple of weeks; early this morning Jack & Lyn called on the Skype video, it’s their 5^th wedding anniversary today and we had left a message late last night on Facebook;they had just been out with the family for a seafood lunch, this weekend they are going away in their caravan for a short trip for a week “ Happy Anniversary ” – Have a “ Gooday! ”

After our breakfast we wrapped up and braved the wet and stormy weather, it’s not cold but when it rains in Spain it rains! We shot down to Sabinillas for the weekend shopping, picked up the papers and some birthday cards (Local) – in between the showers when we came back I went down to the butchers for our ‘Saturday Night Steaks’ ( Late ) after we return from out trip to Cadiz cathedral and Puerto Santa Maria which is an early start.

Chispa has just come calling, she’s like a drowned rat, she had missed us yesterday, she is now playing around the house and has been for a quick walk; we won’t see her tomorrow but on Sunday the weather is picking up again and into the start of next week there is some more sun and warmer weather on the way!

For our supper this evening we are having ‘Goujons of Hake’ using local breadcrumbs from the bakery with Mushy Peas, diced twice-cooked Frits and Homemade Tartar sauce.

Tomorrow’s Blog will only be a short one with all the pictures later so I’ am posting the sports news for the weekend now; over here in ‘La Liga’Real Madrid play Rayo Vallecano, it’s the Derby game as Espanyol welcome Barcelona and Atletico Madrid travel to Atheletic Bilbao; in England on Saturday its Arsenal v Manchester City, then on Sunday Fulham v Everton and Liverpool v Spurs. Meanwhile over in Kuala Lumpur it’s the ‘Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday.

Last night after supper we watched a very good and compelling film that was written and directed by ‘Francis Ford Coppola’ “ The Rainmaker ” from 1997 starring Matt Damon as a young crusading lawyer on his first case, Jon Voight as a ‘Smoothie’ corporate lawyer from Memphis, Mickey Rourke as a ‘Shark’ lawyer, Danny DeVito being himself, Roy Scheider as a ‘Sickly’ company boss,Dean Stockwell as a ‘Corrupt’ nasty judge and Danny Glover as a ‘Saintly’ judge! The love interest is played by Clair Danes !!  Catch it !!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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