MANILVA OVER THE WEEKEND.

FRIDAY/SATURDAY/SUNDAY 4^th/5^th/ 6^th NOVEMBER 2011.

After our regular breakfast of tea and toast on Friday it was an at home day as the weather was a little showery and cool by our standards; it is now 20 degs during the day and at night it goes down to 10 degs Over the weekend there is no rain forecast here not like the rest of Spain which is having severe rain and storms and in the Sierra around Madrid and in other parts the first snow! Later in the morning Mano called in and picked up Derrick, Anna arrived back from Tenerife late on Thursday night, her plane was over two hours late taking off; she has come back not well and has gone to bed – so no news or gossip for now! In the evening we had Scampi Provencale for supper with Basmati Rice, I made the sauce at lunchtime and have also made a small Pork and Mushroom Casserole with some of the sauce to use as a snack on another day.

In the morning on Saturday after our Poached Eggs on Toast Brenda pottered about the house and I caught up with the WWW. In the office, later I watched on the BBC IPlayer a documentary programme introduced by Paddy Ashdown about the most courageous raid of WW11 on cargo ships docked in Bordeaux, seventy miles up the river from the Bay of Biscay and the Atlantic. “ The Cockleshell Heroes ” Six canoes set off with twelve commandoes, only two made it and only one crew of two made it back across France and Spain to Gibraltar to survive to tell the tale, the intrigue and heroism is mind blowing and the cock ups by the planners at the time was unbelievable; Paddy Ashdown who is ex SBS told the story with real compassion and even recalled that he met one of his heroes later in life without knowing that it was him ‘ Blondie Hasler ’who was the man who led the attack and was one of them that got away to live and had a full life afterwards ! The BBC at its best. The film of the story was good but the actual facts were far more intriguing. In the afternoon I watched the Liverpool match against Swansea, Liverpool played terrible,Andy Carroll who cost 35 million pounds is useless and it was a goalless draw ! Later the Manchester City game against QPR was a cracker, City won in the end, just 3-2 ! For dinner we had Steak and Chips with all the trimmings before we settled down to watch a film.

On Sunday we had a little lie in and then went for a long walk with Cheta as the weather is back to sunny and crisp during the day, the forecast for next week is for more of the same if not a little warmer ! 22 degs. today as I’ am typing this. We got the Sunday roast on the go, Loin of Pork with lots of Brenda’s vegetables which we had for dinner, at lunchtime we had toasted Bacon Butties for our Brunch ! Earlier in the morning I watched another documentary “ Frozen Planet ” made by David Attenborough which featured the ‘ Thieving Penguins ’amongst many other great shots of the Artic and Antarctica. In the afternoon it was the last Motorcycle Grand Prix of the season from Valencia; it was very exciting and at the same time very moving as they paid tribute to Marco Simoncelli who was killed in the Malaysian MotorGP. Casey Stoner produced a remarkable late charge to win on the finishening line and the young Spanish rider from Valencia,Nicolas Terol won the last ever 125cc championship; the class is being replaced next year with the new Motor3.Earlier team Gresni rider Piro won a emotional Motor2 race,the team of the late Simoncelli ! After our roast dinner we settled down to watch a film on the TV; we had the choice of several good films and finally watched the Steven Segal one !

Thought for the Day;

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

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