MANILVA START OF THE WEEKEND.

THURSDAY/FRIDAY/SATURDAY 28th/29th/30th JUNE 2012.

Well after Wednesday’s little bit of excitement we took things easy on Thursday; I had a day in the office catching up on the WWW. – it turned out to be a “ Helluva ” good experience. On Facebook David and Paul gave the first details of their next venture for the ‘ New Moon Pub Company ’ they have acquired a new site in the heart of Knutsford – David’s home town where the family business was/is “ The Belle Époque Brasserie ”They have the keys and the surveyors,architects,builders,designers and decorators have moved in ! The old ‘ Red Cow ’ is set to become “ The Old Sessions House Pub and Kitchen ” Watch this space for further updates.
As I was on Facebook also the ‘ Taste Cheshire ’page published some pictures about the food at the ‘ Pollards Inn ’ in Willaston on the Wirral – one of our old business’s which brought back very many happy memories from back in the 80s/90s ! The food is good old fashioned ‘Proper ’ food brought up to date; I left a comment on their page and sent them our good whishes – to our surprise we had a very quick replay from the page and in their comments it referred to me as ‘ Mr S ’ which intrigued me as I have been known by this since back in Liverpool in the late 60s ! It turned out that ‘ Izzy ’ who wrote to us had worked for us at the ‘Pollards ’ when we gave her her first job at the tender age of sixteen ! She has remained in the business and now has her own consultancy business – so we then went into all the details about the new regime at the ‘ Pollards ’and their plans for the future. I then sent her a copy of a newspaper article when we won an award at the ‘ Pollards ’and it shows us on the steps with all the old staff ! She has since published it on Facebook – thanks Izzy ! See Above – click on to enlarge. In the evening we had Pan Fried flattened Chicken Breast that I coated in savory breadcrumbs from the butchers – it was very tasty and we had new potatoes and sliced Green Beans along with a sauce boat of my now ‘ Famous ’ Tomato Salsa ’ !

On Friday morning we caught up with the shopping down in Sabinillas and at the same time sent a birthday card off ( Watch Out ! ) and swapped some books, then we bought a new clock for the kitchen ( Very Important for Timing ) and a new lead for Cheta. In the evening for supper we had Pan Fried fillets of Hake with crispy skin along with Square cut crispy chips, Garden Peas and more of the ‘ Goes with anything ’ Tomato Salsa ! We then caught the late film – “ Rob Roy ” from 1995 and starring Liam Neeson in the main role along with Jessica Lange, John Hurt and Tim Roth playing a really good ‘ Baddi ! ’ Last night as I was checking out Facebook late on I saw on the Manilva page that the Inauguration of the new “ Plaza De La Amistad ” had taken place earlier in the day; I had not seen any announcement on the council web page and so we did not know that it was happening so the pictures above I have taken from their page !

Today, Saturday, we have been for a good walk around the village as there is a little ‘ Lavente ’ breeze blowing in from Africa ; the pictures below show that today there is a 24 hr sports meeting taking place with all sorts of sports taking place ; Indoor Tennis , Padel Tennis, Five/Seven a side football on the grass and hard-court pitches and tonight there is even a Horse Show somewhere in the village – watch this space. The new seating in front of the children’s play area has been finished in Mosaic as well as the final wall on the main wall of the new plaza. On the way back we stopped at the pool complex as it is all hands to the pumps to finish in time for the re-opening – the Marble surrounds have gone down and they are laying the new tiles as I type this – watch this space – finally they have now fenced off the new Plaza Pozo Del Rey as they are now laying down the concrete on the lower ground floor as you can se in the picture taken through the hole in the fence ! This afternoon I’ am hopefully going to watch the start of the ‘ Tour de France ’ on TVE1 or the PC as I have set up the web pages as well as following it on the Facebook page ! This year is the 99th running of the race and 22 teams are taking part with 198 riders from today to the finish in Paris on the 22nd July ! Tonight we are having Steak a la Plancha with chips for supper.

PS; The Tour has started as I have been typing this Sadly Bradley Wiggins was thwarted in the 6.4km prologue around Liege in Belgium by Fabian Cancellara who now has the Yellow Jersey for first full stage on Sunday.


PPS; We found the Horse show and the pictures are above ( For Deb in Australia ! )




Thought for the Day;


There’s some good in the world, and it’s worth fighting for.


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