MANILVA A NEW START.

TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY 12^TH/13^th APRIL 2011.

Tuesday morning started just the same as ever but ended up the day from hell ! The weather is warm and sunny and fingers crossed it will last through next week; I logged on to our Hotmail E – Mail account, or rather I tried ! With no luck as it would not accept our password so I continued to try and checked things out, with still no luck. Just then my mobile phone went, it was Tim from Colwyn Bay ringing to let me know that we had a major problem; he read out the scam e-mail and then it all dropped into place. On Monday morning I had an e-mail from Hotmail asking to confirm and update my details as well as the password! Of course it was a scam and I fell for it; it has turned out that when last year Anna lost her Hotmail it was the same scam letter and we have know found out that other people in the village have had the same problem this week – so it is local ! We have informed the police here and in England. Then all hell let loose ,in a nice way, as family and friends started ringing,e-mailing,Skype calling and leaving messages on Facebook! The first was Annette,Jeffs wife in Kuala Lumpur, then a Skype call from a friend in the USA, Facebook messages from the family in Australia, lots of friends in the UK ringing etc and Brian and Lilli in Finland ( The cheque is in the post ! ) Thanks to all of you ! I then managed to find our local internet café owner from around the corner on Calle Mar,Nikita who is Russian, is very helpful and dropped everything and came around to our house to help ! He managed to get things reasonable back to normal and managed to save all our contact e-mail details ! We then had a stiff drink to settle the nerves !!

On Wednesday morning after breakfast we went for a long walk with Cheta around the village to clear our heads; I called Andy to ask him if he could come around later and help, he is now our Director of IT Resource’s. While we were out I took some pictures as you can see below, we found the Dairy in a side street that we had not noticed before, they collect the milk locally and then chill it and send it off to Malaga. All the party offices are open at the moment as we have the local elections coming up on the 22^nd May. The “ Semana Santa “ week is from the 16^th April to the 23^rd,the parades start on Saturday and on Sunday it is the Palm Sunday celebratons,mass and the main parade. Andy arrived at 5-o clock just as Mano and Anna called in with two young ladies, family, that are staying with them for a week, they arrived on Tuesday at Gibraltar, Megan and Milli are still in the sixth form but leave this year, Megan is off to Cambridge! Megan who speaks Spanish is now learning Russian and Milli is learning Japanese ! Mano is going to supply the Sunday Roast so everybody is coming around later on Palm Sunday for dinner; in the morning I had made a Chicken Curry for supper so Andy stayed for it after his exertions on the PCs ! Andy has updated all the Anti Virus’s on both PCs and I can now look after and manage all the technical stuff a lot better ! He then sorted out our new e-mail address and saved and transferred all our contacts and favorites. At the same time he updated my photo printing to a new system and cleaned up lots of technical faults. He is coming back when he can, he starts full time work this Friday in the family café down in Sabinillas, to check and update both PCs for the future. Many thanks to him for all his help, he earned his stiff drink later !! Mano also got onto the IT/Phone people and has got them on the go again to connect us to the new system, fingers crossed. Watch this space! Our new e-mail is, which in fact we have always had but never used, is on the Google system and we have also gone onto Google Chrome at the same time;

NB; PLEASE CHANGE TO OUR NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS AT;

malcolm.sexton@googlemail.com THANK YOU !!

Thought for the Day;

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

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