SAINT PATRICKS DAY 17 th MARCH 2010.

Wednesday 17th March 2010.

Yesterday I went over to Manilva in the morning and dropped off a lot of clothes and shoes as well as bits and pieces at the house ready for when we move back, We can’t get everything in the Smart car in one go so I will have to do another move before we finally leave in the not to distant future! The Sky system has not come back on so we are without the large TV in the downstairs lounge, Joan’s system has not been affected but she watches all different programmes and has to have it on full blast all the time, also her flat is very warm as she has the electric fire on as well. This means that we have missed all the programmes that we have been following over the last couple of weeks.

On Tuesday afternoon we went up and watched the racing from Cheltenham 2010, the highlight on the first day was the Champion Hurdle,A.P McCoy won on “ Binocular ” and I have never seen the 14 times champion jockey so excited, he had a lot to prove and the horse which has not been running well over it’s last couple of races jumped out of his skin ! Today the Queen Mother Champion Chase was also very good when the favorite was beaten but the highlight of the day was in the National Hunt Chase Challenge Cup over 4 miles, for amateur riders when the only two lady jockey’s led over the last and Katie Walsh ,who is the 25 years old sister of Ruby Walsh, beat Nina Carberry.The crowd’s went mad as it was very popular win and it showed how close the southern Irish dynasties are totally involved in it’s racing over the years, also as it was St. Patricks Day the Irish contingent went mad, again !

Brenda is feeling a lot better today, we have been every day, at different times, by appointment, to the clinic down in Tarifa to have the wound checked and the dressing changed. We then went across to Estepona to the dentists as she had an appointment later in the morning. The weather around the coast was a lot nicer than here, the sun was out and it was warm ! On the way back we stopped at the English butchers and picked up some Sausages for dinner tonight and we also treated ourselves to a Rib of Beef for Sunday lunch as it could well be our last Sunday roast,we hope! Watch this space !!