MANILVA START OF THE WEEK.

MONDAY/TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY 6^th/7^th/8^th JUNE 2011.

After the most beautiful day on Sunday the weather forecast for Monday was grey, cloudy and severe thunder storms! Luckly they passed us by, just, but in the rest of Spain starting from Jaen upwards there were floods and outside Barcelona hailstones the size of tennis balls! Needless to say we had a day at home and caught up with the chores and then settled down to read our books, Brenda is reading a book recommended by Anna, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson which she is really enjoying, tragically Larsson did not live to see the phenomenon his four books have become ! Meanwhile I’m on another Karen Slaughter crime thriller. As we hit the chill out room for our early evening drink I selected for a change 70s Soul music as on Sunday evening on TVE2, late on, there was an excellent BBC2 produced programme showing non stop soul music live concerts taken from the archives, especially Old Grey Whistle Test and Jools Holland featuring all the great names inc.Sister Sledge,Fontella Bass, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Curtis Meyfield,Aretha Franklin and even “ Ann Sexton ”singing ‘ You’ve  been gone too long ’ Honest ! In the evening we had cold Chicken for supper.

Tuesday morning was a lot brighter and as the day went on it became hot and sunny; we got ourselves freshened up and set off to the hospital over in Marbella with plenty of time to spare as the parking at the hospital is a nightmare ! I had an appointment with a consultant to check out and if necessary operate on the Cyst on my middle finger; we went in early and he was very helpful and explained all about the procedure but he recommend that as it was not necessarily always successful and I would even probably loose my nail he thought that it was best to leave well alone as he assured us that it was a non miligment Tumor Mixoide ! So we are back to Nurse Sexton pricking it with a sterilized needle every so often !! She loves it !!! For dinner we had Pork Cutlets in a Lemon Butter sauce with Lyonnaise Potatoes before we watched the football, Spain were playing Venezuela over there, they won 3-0 nil after beating the USA in Boston on Saturday 4-0 nil ! The football they played was out of this world, literally.

Today I made a Chicken Curry in the morning and then we went for a walk around the village with Cheta; we bumped into Anna in Bodega Augustine so we had a drink and caught up with all her news and gossip as we had not seen her since Sunday ! She is off to Tenerife on Saturday for a few days as her Grandaughter,Jordan has the lead part,Sandy,in the theatre school production of ‘ Grease ’ which is on in the main theatre on the Island ! We are babysitting Derick while she is way as Mano is working.After our Chicken Curry supper we watched this weeks classic film,on TV,Cool Hand Luke with Paul Newman.

Thought for the Day;

Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it. An old Spanish Proverb !

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