MANILVA THIS WEEKEND.

SATURDAY/SUNDAY/MONDAY 15TH/16TH/17TH JANUARY 2011.


After a little lie in on Saturday morning we walked around to the football stadium to watch one of the matches; the pictures are below and also show that the good weather is still with us. In the evening we had steak and chips and then settled down to watch a film on TV.

We are still not back into roasting on Sunday at the moment so we planned to have a light brunch at lunchtime; as it was so nice we went for a walk and ended up eventually back at Bar Rojas, Brian was inside having a Tapas snack as Lilli had gone to the airport in Malaga to pick her mother up who was flying in from Helsinki for a week, it was busy as the weather was hot and sunny and all the outside tables were full so we sat and enjoyed the day, as it went on we decided to have a light lunch and move the brunch back to the evening! Brenda had a bowl of homemade Chicken and Vermicelli soup while a had a Pork Estafado with Frits. After speaking to Mano and Anna to catch up with the news they joined us for a late brunch supper which I upgraded to the full Monty! As we were just about to sit down we had a surprise visitor,Gissy who had returned from Christmas back in Germany called in with her friend Julie, she is also German and has lived in Spain for many years and lives just down the road, they had been driving around the village trying to find us after being out all day walking in the hills behind Sotogrande; so we caught up with all her news as we sat down to our supper, they had already eaten and we then finished off the evening on the local wine,Mano left for work and so what started out as just a quiet day ended up with it all happening !

This morning I was up early and shot round to the surgery to make an appointment for Brenda to see our Doctor as her ankle is not improving as quick as we expected; he has put her on a new stronger blood circulation course and she has to rest and keep her ankle up more as well as putting an ice pack on for ten minutes, take it off and let her ankle go back to normal, then do the whole process again, three times a day! Watch this space for a patient report ! We have also now that we are back in the land of the living started to plan what to do with the Smart car, sell or make it Spanish which Mano is going to help us with; I’ve also got a problem with my printer ink on Dell printer which is causing a little inconvenience so Andy is going to have a look and finally we have a couple of small jobs around the house which we need to do as we have our first visitor’s coming at the end of April, Tim and Thea are coming for a week after he retires at Easter, over the weekend they posted on Facebook some great pictures of their long weekend down in London for his 65th birthday with all the family together, they are all growing up and Ben is definitively the leader in the height stakes as he now taller than Tim ! We are really looking forward to seeing them and welcoming then to sunny Manilva,Tim was one of our first guests but Thea has not been to the house. Tonight we are having Flattened Chicken Breast pan fried in foaming butter for supper.

Thought for the Day;


Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.


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