MANILVA THIS WEEK.

TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY 14^th/15^th/15^th JUNE 2011.

On Tuesday morning after breakfast Brenda jumped on the bus down to Sabinillas to go to the Hairdresser’s ; meanwhile back in the office I managed to break my very special Yellow computer chair when I moved and lent over to check out some details on the second PC as I was typing the blog on the large PC,I’ve done this move hundreds of times but this time ended up on the floor ! One of the four legs had snapped off and it is beyond repair,it must have been the weight !! Luckily no damage or broken bones !! Brenda caught the bus back up to the village later in the morning after her Birthday hair cut and style ( Next Wednesday ) Hint, Hint !

In the afternoon we watched on the large PC the first day of the racing from Royal Ascot, the connection was very good, via the USA, so we had the full BBC coverage with all the racing and the fashions ! Brenda then retired to the roof terrace and I carried on the WWW. sat on a very uncomfortable chair ! In the evening we had Egg and Chips with cold York Ham for supper before we settled down to watch the TV.

Wednesday morning it was hot and very sunny from early on so by lunchtime it is too hot to walk the dogs for a long walk around the village so Brenda just takes Derick out to do his business! Just before lunchtime we made contact with Zoë on the Skype video over in Manchester, as it was her birthday, we had a long chat as her husband Graham has now retired from his job of a Captain on large executive yachts, so they are now planning the next stage in their lives. Over in Kuala Lumpur it was Jeff’s birthday but we could not make contact. Happy Birthday to Zoë and Jeff !! The racing from Ascot was very exciting when the odds-on-favourite ‘ So You Think ’bread in New Zealand and a champion in Australia was beaten by a short head by ‘ Rewilding ’ ridden by Frankie Dettori in the ‘Prince of Wales’s Stakes’ ! More time on the roof terrace for Brenda, even the locals are commenting on her colour,we then had our usual early evening cocktail in the chill out room and listened to loud 70s Blues music. For dinner we had English Pork Sausages, that we had picked up from the butchers in Puerto Duquesa, which I pan fried until they were crisp and brown and then finished them in the oven in a rich Onion sauce that I had made in the morning; Brenda’s Cabbage with Alcelgas and New Potatoes were just right to go with the Sausages. We then walked down to the terrace in front of School of Music were they have just put up the stage for the end of term concert on Friday evening; we had gone to see the eclipse of the Moon, on Monday and Tuesday evenings it was clear and very bright but sadly last night there was no sign of anything in the sky! We were very disappointed and came back with our tails between our legs! We then started to watch the classic film of the week ‘ 55 Days in Peking ’ with Charlton Heston.Brenda went up to our terrace to hang some washing out and screamed down for me to come up; the sky had cleared and it was a beautiful starry night, the Deep Lunar Eclipse of the Moon was clearly visible as it started on its second stage, the Red colour was caused by ash from the Chilean Volcano, by then I was able to catch the picture below with our small Sony 7-2 mega pixels camera that we take all our pictures with, not bad and if you scroll over them quickly you can see the effect ! We also had our racing binoculars out; I had polished them up earlier as we had not used them since May 5^th 1986 when we last went to Ludlow races !! The magnification of 10X-30X50 with zoom gave us a very clear view; I even tried to take a picture through with the camera through the lenses but sadly it did not work !! While we were out Carolyn rang to re-arrange the house sit, we are now going over on Saturday lunchtime and will be back on Wednesday morning in time for Brenda’s birthday celebrations, the cards have started to arrive already, thank you.

Today we are taking things easy and just pottering about the house as it is really hot; the two dogs are running around in the house but Derick will not play with Cheta,we have to feed them separately as they are both protective of their food ! On Facebook Lilli has confirmed this morning that they are planning to come over at the start of September for the Vendimia festival with her Rock N Roll dad and his best fiend who is a World Record holding Sky Diver-Honest ! We are also hoping that David and Jane are here on their honeymoon as they getting married in Birkenhead registry Office on the 26^th July ! Mano is off today and is picking Anna up from the airport this afternoon so they are collecting Derick this evening; we are going to have Omelette’s for supper and just chill out and take things easy.

Thought for the Day;

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

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