MANILVA THIS WEEKEND.

SATURDAY/SUNDAY 11^th/12^th JUNE 2011.

As we got up on Saturday morning the sun was out and the forecast for the weekend was hot, by Tuesday it will be 37degs, at the moment as I am typing this it is 35degs and rising! After our Poached Eggs for breakfast we freshened ourselves up; we are now in our summer mode and you have to shower at the coolest time of day. As I was checking out the WWW. I clicked onto the BBC News page and that is how I got the Trooping the Colour pictures below.Mano and Anna dropped Derick off on the way to the airport so as we went for our walk we had the two dogs with us; we went down to the New Town Hall Council Chambers next to the Police and Fire stations as it was the day for the investiture of the new Mayor, the street was packed and you could not get into the chamber but I managed to talk my way in and got the pictures and report below ! We then came back up to Bar Rojas for a cooling drink and some Tapas, Fresh Grilled Sardines with warm bread, our first this year. In the evening after our Steak and Chips we settled down to watch the late classic film, Jack Nicholson in Chinatown.

On Sunday morning we got the roast ready for dinner later in the evening as Mano was joining us after he had dropped off the latest customers from the villa back to the airport; Roast Loin of Pork with Glazed Apple Slices,Savoury Stuffing and Thick Gravy along with Brenda’s selection of vegetables and potatoes. We started to watch the Grand Prix from Canada late in the afternoon and were still watching it late into the evening due to all the stoppages and at one time it was halted for over two hours due to a heavy cloudburst! Little did we know what was to follow; Jenson Button took a stunning victory in the most dramatic, rain-affected Grand Prix when he passed Sebastian Vettel on the last lap of an absorbing race! But this was only part of the story in the incident packed race which saw the safety car used five times, Button made five pit stops as well as an enforced visit to the pits for a drive – through penalty for speeding under the safety car! It also included two incidents, one with his team mate Hamilton and then with Alonso, both of which crashed out!! At one stage he was last and in the over the next twenty laps he overtook everybody, all still in the rain and when the track was drying out. It was one of the races of his life and the best grand Prix of a spectacular career; He out drove, out thinked, attacked, changed his tyres at the right moment and left the other drivers in his spray!!! It will go down in memory as one of the greatest Grand Prix’s ever.

I have just posted the picture below of Jeff and Annette with their two children Paul and Kate on the holiday in Macau back in May; it was the first time in two years that they had been together, Kate arrived with her boyfriend from Canada were she lives and works, Jeff flew in from Chicago via Kuala Lumpur and Annette had called into Brisbane and picked up Paul, who lives in the family home, she had stopped on the way from Kuala Lumpur in New Zealand to see a friend and her family who lives in Nelson on the South island; it is named after Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson and is at the north tip of the island in the Marlborough Wine Region from where two of our most favorite Sauvignon Blanc’s come from, ‘ Cloudy Bay and Oyster Bay ’Annette’s old boss who has retired now has a winery in the same region, the pictures of the South Island are as usual out of this world and are spectacular !

Thought for the Day;

What makes the engine go ? Desire,Desire,Desire !

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