CASA OLIMPIA.

Saturday 6th February 2010.

Over the last few days the weather has improved; the sun is out and the temperature has risen to over 20 degs.during the day so we have the doors open and the dogs are out all the time, yesterday after coming back from shopping down in Tarifa we washed the Smart car for the first time in ages, as you can see in the picture above! On Thursday we went across to see Vidal and Gissy,we have not caught up with them since November and in the meantime Vidal went over Xmas to Peru and then on to Trinidad to see his mother and family;Gissy also cut,coloured and styled Brenda’s hair as you can see in the other picture below. My hair which is now below my shoulders also has a light trim! It turned out to be rather lucky trip over to Estepona as in the morning as we got up Brenda broke a tooth so we called into the dentists and she was able to get it looked after and fixed by the afternoon on our way back, also I picked up a money transfer from Western Union to keep us going over next week! We have had no more news from Chris over in England about “ Plan A ”so far so watch this space.
Last weekend on Saturday 30th January the night turned into day as the full moon was huge; the moon was the biggest in 133 years as it was height in the sky and closest to Earth, nobody alive today will have ever seen the moon so big and bright! I could not get a good picture to blog as our digi-cam is only a basic one, sorry!
We are watching the TV and catching up with a lot of old series that we never had the time to watch in our past life; Inspector Morse,Midsomer Murders,Heartbeat,The Darling Buds of May,Frost,to name but just a few! Over the last couple of weeks I have been watching Ballykissangel and was very shocked yesterday when Assumpta was electrocuted in the pub cellar after Father Peter had just told her that he loved her!! The BBC as usual has just started to show the new David Dimbleby program “ Seven Ages of Britain ” which is very interesting and very well researched and of course we watch QI with Steven Fry all the time. During the last few weeks Michel Portillo has been on Great Railway journeys around the UK, which as a young boy I spent all my time trainspotting,traveling all over Europe on trains and in my bedroom my bed was in the middle of a very large model railway system !
PS; We have just come off the Skype video phone to Jack and Lyn in Australia and we are going to try and contact Lyn;s son Jeff and his wfe Annette in Kuala Lumpur !