MANILVA START OF THE WEEK.

MONDAY/TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY 15^TH /16^TH /17^th AUGUST 2011.

After the weekend Monday in the village was very quiet as it was a bank holiday; the forecast for the week is sun, sun and more sun so we in our summertime regime, Brenda is also in her cleaning mode ready for our guests, David and Jane on their honeymoon ! 15 days and counting as Brian mentioned on a Facebook chat at lunchtime from Pori in Finland, they are crashing out at Andy’s and I am hopefully picking them up at the bus station.TBC! Monday was Anna’s birthday but we did not get to see them so we rang and had given her card last week! We also had a call from Jenny to say that she has booked the flights and they are arriving on the 27^th of September for a week. For supper we had cold Chicken and salad before we watched a film on TV.

On Tuesday morning we went to the bank and chemists in Calle Mar and then called at the butchers for Pork Cutlets and Stewing steak; in the early evening I managed to get the connection going to watch the BBC I Player, we have started to watch ‘ Rick Stein in Spain ’which is very good and more interesting as we now know our way around the regions and also the dishes of Spain ! In the evening we had the Pork Cutlets pan fried in Lemon Butter with vegetables and local New Potatoes for dinner. We then watched the Arsenal match, they just won but will need to play better in the return tie in Italy next week !

Wednesday morning I went mad and made a Beef, Vegetable and Potato Stew – SCOUSE ! It has 11 different veg.and we had it for supper with local Beetroot and Cabbage with Alselgas. One of our neighbours,Antonio, dropped off two large bunches of local Grapes; they are from the 1^st picking, which is a week behind schedule, they are Muscatel so they are sweet with no pips. After supper we watched the return clash in the Spanish Super cup; it did not kick off, in both senses of the word, until 11-00pm at the ‘Nou Camp ’in Barcelona, for most of the game it was great football as Barcelona beat Real Madrid 3-2 after the 2-2 draw in the first round, who else but Messi scored the winning goal, his second!

PS; I’ve just spoken to Mano on Skype,he is off today, this morning Derrick did a runner, he had also gone missing on Monday morning and the police found him at the start of the village, so this time Mano caught him at the same place, they think he is in love !

PPS; We have just spoken to Zoë and Graham over in Manchester and as were online on the Skype Video Annette in Kuala Lumpur made contact, she was cooking dinner for her daughter,Kate,who is over on holiday from Canada; we last saw her ten years ago in England so she has grown up to be a beautiful woman in that time! Jeff is away on business in Tokyo and then Hawaii.!!

Thought for the Day;

To see what is right, and not to do it, is a want of courage or principal.

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