MONDAY/FRIDAY 14th/
The forecast for the week was good with sun and no wind so it was going to be warm all day but at the weekend rain and storms are forecast as an Atlantic weather front hits us; Monday morning after our tea and toast we decided to have a at home day catching up with the jobs around the house, I retired to the office and caught up on the WWW. and also the weekend TV programmes on the BBCIPlayer.
On Tuesday morning we went for a walk around the village with Cheta and when we got back Anna arrived for a chat and gossip; later Brenda went up on the roof terrace and read for a while in the afternoon sunshine. In the evening we had local Pork Cutlets with local Carrots and Cabbage and of course Lyonnaise Potatoes which were also made with local spuds that we bought off the back of a van at the top of our street along with the Onions and a bag of Garlic !
Wednesday was when I got the bug and did the blog and pictures about the Ark Royal after reading about the talk to be given on Friday; I went on Google and Wikipedia and researched all about the story and as I was looking at some pictures Brenda passed and commented about her experience with her dad which I had not heard before and of course that is what made the story so personal.The picture’s on the blog are taken from the screen of the large PC with our Sony Cyber-Shot 7.2 pixel camera held very still ! The German U-boat pictures were taken from a German propaganda news film which I freeze-framed!! Already Lyn over in
We had another at home day on Thursday taking things easy and pottering about the house, Brenda is changing her wardrobe to her winter clothes ready for when it finally changes, the forecast for next few months over Christmas and into the new year is quite mild but as I am typing this we have thunder and lightening and the heavy rain storm has just hit us ! When I was in the butchers on Tuesday morning he was making a batch of his famous Albondigas, meatballs, Pork and Chicken, so I picked up some and on Thursday evening we had them for supper, I made a rich Tomato,Red Pepper and Garlic sauce and finished them off in it as the Spaghetti was cooking.
Yesterday, Friday morning, we went down to Sabinllas to do the shopping, as we waited at the bus stop we got a lift down from Lumy from Bar Rojas who was on her way to do her weekend shopping; we had a few messages to do so when we came out of the supermarket with full and heavy bags we walked just a few paces to the bus stop and caught the bus on its way down the coast road on its route around and then back up to Manilva which takes a little longer but you see a lot more of the views which you don’t see from the car and it is still only 60cents as we are pensioners ! In the evening we went down again to Sabinillas,this time we had two offers of a lift including one gentleman who was on his way up and said that he would come back and collect us, he gave us a lift up the other day and a Senorita who was most insistent and dropped us down straight away ! We went to the talk about the Ark Royal which was in the Council Multi-Cultural centre,which was packed and was given by Damien Gonzalez,in Spanish, who is an experienced diver and had over the years researched and filmed the wreck, he has a vast collection of pictures and news film including the BBC TV programme in 2002 that found the wreck by chance, he showed how he pinpointed on Google Earth the ship from the details given in the film and from the pictures with the coast in the background where you cam plainly see the V in the mountains behind Manilva ! He is sending me some more pictures about the launch after I gave a brief talk with the help of a friendly interpreter about the personal part of our story, he even had a film in colour of the launch of the next Ark Royal in 1950 when Brenda was there !! When we got back we had Egg and chips for supper and then watched a Clint Eastwood film.
Thought for the Day;
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
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