FRIDAY 1ST, JANUARY,NEW YEARS DAY 2010.

Friday 1st January 2010.

The start of a new decade down here on the Costa del Sol and we hope to resolve our little technical difficulty over the next couple of weeks, watch this space ! As we got up in the morning after the night before the sun came out, a good sign for the future? We had two New Years Eve celebrations, the first with Joan as we celebrated the Spanish one with twelve grapes and Cava and listened to the ships horns from the Bay of Gibraltar and followed the fireworks above Tarifa as we also watched the fireworks display from Berlin and Paris on TV. We then watched Jools Holland and saw in the English New-Year an hour later down in the TV lounge as we hit the cocktails, the programme was excellent with Sir Tom Jones singing the Green, Green Grass of Home being the highlight ! At the same time we watched the fireworks in London and Edinburgh on Sky TV which were both spectacular.
This morning Joan came down for a breakfast of Scrambled Eggs with Smoked Pink Trout and a very nice Pink Cava to welcome the New Year in the right fashion; we then hit the Skype phone to wish a Happy New Year to all our family and friends who we always ring traditionally, we had caught Jack and Lyn over in Australia earlier on New Years day morning, ten hours ahead of us, Brenda’s two sisters were next, Tim in Colwyn Bay was just surfacing, Hilda also in Colwyn Bay,Mano and Anna who were on the way home from the party at the Aparthotel in Manilva, Zoe our dear friend and her husband Graham in Manchester and Jane over in Chester.I have also answered all the E-mails and Face book messages from over Xmas and the New Year. We have also in our thoughts over the next few months Jane’s daughter,Alexa and Yolande and Daves daughter Jasmine over in Switzerland who are both not very well. For dinner we had Braised Steak with vegetables and New Potatoes, I had made two dishes of the Braised Steak so I did not have to cook! The picture below shows the Sherry Trifle that was a joint effort between us, getting all the right ingredients was a major challenge, its going to last us for days!
Finally we would like to wish everybody a peacfull,healthy,prosperous and happy New Year for 2010.