MANILVA NEWS SPORTS NEWS AND SCREEN UPDATE.

MONDAY/SUNDAY 10TH/16THMAY 2010.

On Monday and Tuesday we took it easy and spent some time catching up with some jobs around the house;the weather is getting better every day and we are going for our walk around the village at lunchtime when it is very tranquil.
I made a Chicken curry for dinner on Wednesday evening and Mano and Anna came round and joined us as Anna was flying off to England on Thursday morning with Carlos and Anna Mari to go to the wedding in North Wales on Saturday;SallyAnn was also flying in on the same day.They flew to Liverpool amd SallyAnn was landing at Manchester.
Thursday was a relaxing at home day with Brenda on the roof terrace reading as I caught up with the e-mails.

We went out on Friday morning and did the shopping for the weekend; in the evening Mano came round for supper before he went into work, we had Pan Fried Salmon fillets on a bed of Spinach with Asparagus and Saffron New potatoes along with Broccoli florets.
Saturday was another glorious day so we walked down to the football stadium and watched the seven a side football with the local teams as usual playing with lots of commitment;on the way back we bumped into Mano in Bar Rojas were he had just won the jackpot on the fruit machine, he had also been in the next door Bar and had won the jackpot there as well ! He does this all the time in the various bars around the village,he plays the machine after sombody else has had no luck and spent all their money ! Needless to say we stopped and had a few celebratey drinks on him! In the evening we had Steak and frits for dinner and Mano called in on his way to work and picked up his lunch box ! ie;A toasted steak sandwich with all the trimming to keep him going during the night !! He also dropped off a litre bottle of Bacardi for the drinks cabinet.

We had planned to have Roast Leg of Lamb for dinner,which Mano had dropped off on Saturday evening,but the day and the weather took over; we had a walk and stopped at Bar Rojas,it was such a lovely day we sat outside and had a Tapas lunch and watched the Monaco Grand Prix on the large screen; at this time of the year the reception on the local TVs is not too good,Webber won but the drive of the day was by Fernando Alonso,he started at the back off the grid in 24th position but ended up 6th despite Micheal Schumacher on the last lap making a illegal move on the final corner ! Later in the afternoon we watched the tennis,Rafael Nadel beat Roger Federer in the Madrid Open and the Queen presentented the trophy. Meanwhile over in Barbados England won the cricket World Twenty20 final against the arch enemy Australia ! Sorry to all the family over there !!
In the early evening we had a snack before we went out to watch the football at Mano's on his large screen, the same problem hit us again,bad reception, so we ended up just before the sun set by going for a drink at the Casares Golf Club,Mano and his friend Juan had played a round in the morning and had a very good lunch of Goujons of Rosado,the place is in a spectacular position in the next valley but one from Manilva and the club house and restaurant are furnished in a comtemporary style,the menu is excellent and good value and we will go there in the not too distant future. We watched the end of the football in the club TV lounge;Barcelona won the La Liga League title for the second successive year when they beat Vallodolid 4 - nil. Messi scored two and this brought his goals in the league to 34 ! Barcelona lost only one game in 38 league matches and beat Real Madrid at home and away ! The other big match was at Malaga who were playing Real Madrid,the score was 1 -1 and the goalkeeper for Malaga played a blinder,it ment that Barcelona won the title by three points but at the same time Malaga were not relagated as they had got the draw and some other scores went their way ! When we got back into the village the Barcelona side of Manilva was going mad along with the Malaga supporter's and the car horns were going all night !

Now the bad news,Carlos and Anna Mari's flight was cancelled from Liverpool,Sally Ann's back to Tenerife suffered the same fate and it looks like Anna's flight on Monday from Liverpool is going the same way, all due to the Ash cloud problem ! Watch this space.

PS; It is looking like Anna's flight might get away but still no news on the others.
PPS; Anna has arrived home this evening,Carlos and Anna Mari can't get a flight untill Wednesday and it turns out that Sally Ann didn't even make it to England as her flight was cancelled at the very last minute as she arrived at the airport in Tenerife !

NEWSFLASH;
The Ash cloud that never was ; Airport chaos for 50,ooo was caused by an inaccurate Met Office forecast - they took fresh soundings and sent up a plane to check,they found there was no such Ash,their assessment was flawed !!!

The news on the screen is ongoing; I have sent e -mails and have been on the Skype phone to Vancouver over the last week and this week have received the forms and details to post the wrong screen back,it is all very complicated and it took us a few days to get everything right,this morning we went down to the main post office in Sabilillas and with Mano's help to make sure that we posted it back in the way that was detailed it has gone off to Vancouver;now we have to wait to see if this time we get the right one and that they reimburse the postage ! Watch this space.

PS; I 've just had an e - mail from Vancouver after I sent them the confimation and tracking details of the package and it looks like they are responding,they have sent me details to track the package sent by them for the replacement screen ! Today !!

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