MANILVA OVER THE WEEKEND.

SATURDAY/SUNDAY 19th/20th MAY 2012.

On Saturday morning after our Poached Eggs on Toast we went down to the Sports Hall to watch the Rhythmic Gymnastic Competition; Before we left we got in touch on the Skype Video with Jack and Lyn in Melbourne, we had a lot of news to catch up with them, Lyn’s eldest daughter Annette Rose’s son Daniel and his partner Christine had a beautiful baby boy ‘ Kyan ’ on Friday so its Jack and Lyn’s third Great Grandchild ! Lyn has not been too well with Bronchitis and one night got up to go to the bathroom and had a nasty fall as she had a coughing fit; we then brought them up to date with all our news and the news from England from Jenny and Norah. This meant we arrived at the Gymnastics late and missed Barbara’s two girls Megan and Leah take a first and second place in their class – the pictures below show the older competitors doing their thing ! No sport in the afternoon to watch on the PC but over in the Giro d’Italia Mark Cavendish had his third stage win and is now the leading rider in the points table. In the evening after our Steak and Chips supper we watched the final of the ‘ Champions League ’between Bayern Munich and Chelsea ; it so happened that it took place in the ‘ Alianz Arena’ Bayern’s home ground; Bayern took the lead but then missed a penalty after Didier Drogba had fouled Robben; Petr Cech saved the penalty and also two more in the penalty shoot out, I read an article yesterday about how he had studied all the Bayern’s players taking penalties ! Brilliant !! Drogba scored with a bullet header to equalize before converting the crucial penalty for Chelsea’s win !!! The Germans did not take their loss well – in fact they took it very badly and un- sportsmen like ! The other strange thing was that John Terry the Chelsea Captain who did not play in the match, he was suspended, was then allowed to go up and receive the Cup – he was dressed in his full kit including shin pads and sponsor’s boots, this morning in all the English and German newspapers he has been mocked and lampooned online – it was not right ! The late film was “ Striking Distance ” from 1993 starring Bruce Willis and Sarah Jessica Parker in a crime thriller filmed on location on the ‘ Ohio ’ river in Pittsburgh USA. – It has a twist at the end !

Overnight we had heavy rain as forecast and on Sunday it was cold and overcast all day; after getting our Sunday Roast ready – Topside of Beef – we then freshened ourselves up, when I’ am in the shower I play on the PC through the speakers and sub-woofer as loud as possible the “ Musicovery Interactive Web Radio Station – you can choose from four sorts of mood for your music, I choose ‘ Energetic ’ then from eighteen Genres – I choose ‘ Blues ’and finally you select the decade – I ‘am still in the 50s ! So it’s Jimmy Reed, Memphis Slim, Albert Collins, Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, Bo Diddley,Little Walter, and Elmore James and so on ! The office, the bathroom and the house rocks !! We then made contact on the Skype Video with Ben over in Old Colwyn to wish him “ Happy Birthday ”on his 18th ! We also spoke to Tim on the Samsung earlier and there is a possibility that he and Jo are going to come over to see us in June – watch this space- we are very excited to be having visitors ! In the afternoon after our Bacon Butties I watched on the BBC IPlayer the “ Saturday Morning – Best Bits ” – watch out for ‘ Beef Bourguignon’ on the menu in the next couple of weeks; in the meantime in the next valley to Manilva the “ World Match Play ”golf has been taking place at ‘ Finca Cortesin ’over the last four days – Northern Irelands Graeme McDowell was narrowly beaten by the Belgian player Nicolas Cossaerts in the final round. In the evening we invited our friend Gillian to join us for dinner as she is going back to the Isle of Wight on Thursday for a week to celebrate her birthday with her family and friends, we had a good old chin- wag and told her lots of tails from our past life ! The late film was called “ Extreme Measures ”from 1996 and Sarah Jessica Parker ( Again ! ) was in it along with Gene Hackman and Hue Grant – it is a medical/murder thriller. The pictures below show the crane that was finished this morning down in the Plaza Pozo Del Rey as the wind has dropped – we have discovered that they are constructing a two storey under ground car park and then the new square and children’s play area will be on top ! So defiantly watch this space !!

Thought for the Day;

It is a wise man who asks “ Why ? ” And don’t be afraid to ask “ What If ? ”


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