MANILVA.

Sunday 24th. August.

We had planned to have a normal Sunday at home and after a late start we had our usual brunch,as Brenda potted about and I watched the Grand Prix from Valencia and then the spectacular closing ceremony of the Olympics.In the evening there was more sport,Real Madrid played Valencia in a Super Cup match and won and the highlights of the Premier League including Liverpool and Manchester City winning!During the last few days I have gone online with MSN news,ITN news and Sky news which all give very good interactive video newcasts and along with the BBC news I now have instant coverage of the news at it happens, as well as reading the Daily Express and Daily Mail online,I also have five local Radio stations on line and a small TV monitor in the office to watch the local Manilva TV that is broadcast from just a few meters away; I am still working on and putting together a Radio/TV. Programme and have been live on Citytalk FM in Liverpool as a VIP contributor from Southern Spain. In the early evening between watching the TV which we have only in Spanish to help with our Spanish speaking and learning I checked out the e-mails and Facebook,On one of the pages some new pictures had been posted from Matt,Michelle's partner of their beautiful daughter,Holly and as we clicked through them some pictures appeared of another beautiful baby girl in a house we recognized as Carol’s,it was Jasmin, Carol’s older daughter, Yola’s daughter, who lives in Switzerland with her husband Dave. At the same time in the picture Ben and his partner Andrea’s new born baby daughter,Freya could be seem with all the Mellor Clan! So we immediately tried to contact them on the Skype phone but with no luck until we got through to Michelle at her house in Preston and found out that the gathering had taken place on Saturday,Michelle had some news of her own,she is pregnant again and is expecting the baby in March! Congratulations, Matt and Michelle! We then spoke to Carol in Willaston and she told us that Yola was also pregnant and expecting the baby in March as well!! Congratulations Dave and Yola!!! We caught up with Yola this morning at Dave’s parents house in Chorley,they are only over for four day’s and are making the rounds of their family’s.So Carol has gone from no grandchildren to three very quickly and five by March next year! Great news on a good news day! I've just added the link above from our Facebook page,click on it to see the babies picture's.