MANILVA TODAY.

MONDAY 3RD.MAY 2010.

On Saturday morning we went for a walk around the village,the weather at this time of the year is just right; the sun is out all day and the skies are blue,the temperature is nearly 30degs.but there is a little breeze so it is very comfortable to be out in,we sat outside Bar Rojas for our lunchtime drink and took in the sites and sounds of the village.In the afternoon I made a Beef stew which had in it 13 different vegetables including some fresh broad beans from our neighbour's campo and of course potatoes ! Later I went up to the office and started to use the small PC after all the work that Andy had put into it,it is better than ever and will keep us online untill the large PC is fixed.The new Word 7 is a lot more complex and will take me some time to find out how to use it.When the new screen arrives Andy will fit it and then he is going to update the whole system and install Windows 7 at the same time and it costs nothing !

After dinner we settled down to watch the TV; on TVE 1 the film turned out to be one to remember; " Las Trece Rosas " the 13 rose's is the true story of 13 women at the end of the Spanish Civil war. It takes place in Madrid in August 1939 as Franco and the facist nationalist forces are entering the city, the women from different backgounds are rounded up by the secret police and are presumed to be Repubilicans,they are all brutally interrogated and put in prison under terrible conditions,they band together and rebel against the conditions.Later they are taken to a military court and sentenced to death for a crime that they had not commited as a retaliation for a political crime that they were not involved in. On August 5th 1939 they are all shot by firing squad along with 48 men who had sufferd the same persecution.The film was very compelling and we watched it and were very moved although we could only just follow it in Spanish. After it had finished the next programme was the director,writer and a actress being interviewd in the studio,it showed pictures of the letters that they wrote from prison,family pictures,photographs of the prison staff and at the end it went to the cemetary where there is a large memorial,all the family relatives still alive gatherd there with red roses and sang with clenched fists the Repubilican anthem !

This Sunday we were going to go to Mano and Anna's for our sunday roast but due to conditions beyond their control they ended up here and we roasted their Chicken ! Another memorable day ended up in Bar Rojas.

I managed to post the test message from the new Word 7 but had no luck when I tried to type and post the blog; it will take some time for me to get up to speed so meanwhile I have posted this online to the blog !

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