MANILVA START OF THE WEEKEND.

THURSDAY/FRIDAY 18^th/19^th/ OCTOBER 2012.

Thursday morning started overcast and cloudy but the sun came out later and it went warm, a perfect day for doing the washing and putting it out to dry; Anna called in for a chat and a cuppa and we also spoke to Tim on the Skype Video and caught up with all his news, sadly still no sign of him popping over to see us at the moment. I caught up with Tuesday’s Later Live with Jools – ‘Madness ’were very good! The weather in the rest of Spain is not good, especially in Northern Spain – rain, winds and floods but our little costal stretch down here on the Costa Del Sol is just about getting away with it and the forecast is more of the same over the weekend – it’s cooler but we can’t complain as it is still around 23/24 degs. In the evening after supper we watched the news and then channel hopped as Thursday is not a good film night!

We went down to Sabinillas first thing in the morning and called at our bank and then did the shopping at Mercadona, we then went along to Castillo Duquesa to pick up the tickets for the council presentation on Thursday afternoon, on the way back called into the English butchers in Puerto Duquesa and picked up two lovely Rib-Eye steaks for Saturday, we then collected the newspapers and shot back up to the village. After we had unpacked we walked down to the local market and bought some flowers, we bumped into Sally Ann and Dominico and had a chat with them, on the way back we stopped at Bar Rojas to pass on a small plant for Lumy’s mother, we ended up going in to see her, she looks very well and is getting better slowly. Sadly it is not the same news for our friend Antonio who is still in hospital, he has had the operation but he has now got Pneumonia, so is not very well – he is no spring chicken so we hope that he is better soon. In the early evening on TVE2 they are showing back to back episodes of “ Frazier ” which we usually watch before supper;tonights was when Niles ran away with Daphne on her wedding day in a ‘Winnebago ’ motor home ! It reminded me that this one of the reasons that I had the original idea to go off in a Winnebago in the first place, we had also seen them back in the early 80s when we went to America, we crossed the USA from Miami up to New Orleans, we had friends there, into Texas and Route 66 before crossing the desert down into Albuquerque New Mexico ! We then entered Arizona and hired a Helicopter in Flagstaff to fly over and down into the Grand Canyon! We then went across the Hoover Dam into Nevada and hit Las Vegas before going into Los Angeles – our car was a ‘ Cadillac Eldorado ’ One ‘ Helluva ’ holiday !!

For supper we had Grilled Baby Plaice, it is the first time that we have seen them in the fish market, they were sweet and tasty just like Plaice should be and we had then with Chips !  The late film was a remake of “Assault on Precinct 13”from back in 1976, the new was even more exciting than the original, it stars Ethan Hawke,Laurance Fishburne,Brian Dennehy,Gabriel Byrne and Drew De Matteo – watch out for the ending – there is a big surprise! Also on another channel they are showing the ‘ Indiana Jones ’ films, sadly, at the same time, last night it was the ‘ Temple of Doom ’

Thought for the Day;

The only source of knowledge is experience.

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