MANILVA AT THE START OF THE NEW YEAR.

WEDNESDAY2nd/THURSDAY 3^rd/ FRIDAY 4^th/ JANUARY 2013.

On Wednesday morning we made contact with Tim over in Old Colwyn on the Skype video as it was his birthday – he was in fine form and he suggested he might try to come over very soon for a bit of sun and golf which he is missing due to the weather over in North Wales ! ASAP Timmy !! Jump on the plane for Gibraltar and the rest is easy!!  The weather forecast at the moment is good for the bank holiday weekend here in Spain and into next week; on Sunday it is “ The Three Kings ” celebrations which is the main Xmas for children, the parade is on Saturday evening along Calle Mar. Brenda actually was able to go up on the roof terrace for a couple of hours in the afternoon to read as by then it had warmed up; I meanwhile was trying to watch on the BBCTVIPlayer some of my favorite programme’s but I’ am having problems as they are playing with the satellite’s, which is starting to effect the reception on English stations! Watch this space. In the evening for supper we had Pork Cutlet’s with vegetables and Baked Potatoes. Sadly there was no ‘ Downton Abbey’ episode on Antena3 so we had to channel hop. We found a lovely film called “ Waking Ned ”  from 1998 – a comedy about an Irish village that connives together to fool the claims inspector into paying the 7 million winning ticket after the winner ‘ Ned  dies! It stars Ian Bannen, David Kelly,Fionula Flanagan and James Nesbitt as a Pig farmer – it was actually filmed on the Isle of Man- don’t miss it!  The football over in England saw Everton beat Newcastle 1-2 and Liverpool won against Sunderland 3-0 but the surprise of the night was OPR,who are at the bottom of the Premier League, they beat Chelsea 0-1 !! This weekend the ‘Liga ’ over here restarts after the Xmas break and see’s Barcelona v Espanyol ( Mano;s team ) as the main game.

Thursday was curry night; I made a large pan of Chicken Curry in the morning, you can smell it at the top of out street ! The sun is out but it is a little cooler as the ‘ Lavente ’ wind has picked up – 16/17degs. So Brenda had been busy with washing as its good drying weather ! After supper we watched the late film “ Firewall ” from 2006 with Harrison Ford as a security specialist forced into robbing the bank that he’s protecting by the ‘ Baddie ’ Paul Bettany !

This morning, Friday, we shot out early down to the surgery to make appointments for next week when our doctor returns from holiday as we need some updates on our prescriptions and check ups; we then went down to Sabinillas for the weekly shopping and picked up the papers at the same time. After unloading we went for a walk with the dog down to the local market for some fresh flowers, at the same time we called into the ‘ Sports

 Office ’off the council to buy tickets for a coach trip in two weeks time to the main sports hall over in Malaga to watch the Basketball Game between ‘ Unicaja( Malaga) and Real Madrid, the champions, in the ‘ Euroleague’ – it is very cheap and was advertised on Wednesday – no luck all tickets sold out already – I ‘am not a happy bunny and have sent off E-mails etc. as Mario our local councilor and the Director of Sports as he said to me yesterday that everything was fine!! No Problemente !! Watch this space.

Tonight we are having Fish and Chips with Peas; I’ am making fresh Goujon’s of Hake along with square Chips and Mushy Peas( Tinned but very good !) – then we settle down to watch a good film ,hopefully.

Thought for the New Year;

Everything is OK in the end, if it’s not OK,then it’s not the end.

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