MANILVA AT THE START OF THE WEEKEND

THURSDAY 24^th/ FRIDAY 25^th/ JANUARY 2013.

Well the wet stuff hit us over night, as we got up on Thursday morning the heavens opened, but only for a short while as it settled down to a cool dry grey day for a change in sunny Manilva! We are still very lucky as the rest of Spain is getting it bad with heavy snow and severe rain storms; the forecast for the weekend is better with no rain and gradually getting more sun and clear skies by Sunday/Monday – back to normal and the temperature will be back up to 20degs+! We settled down to some serious reading in the afternoon and later in the evening for supper we had Grilled Sausages,Tomato,Heinz Baked Beans, Fried Eggs and Chips with of course HP Brown sauce!

We then watched the news and then found on TVE2 a delightful film called “ Crush ”from 2001 – it is the story of three forty-something career woman, a headmistress played by the very watch able Andie Macdowell,the village doctor played by Anna Chancellor and the local police superintendent is the excellent Imelda Staunton – it follows their life’s in a rural village in middle England in the present day; it is very moving and very well acted and there is a big surprise as their story unfolds - get the hanky ready!

Later on one of the other channels it was the football, a late 10-00pm kick off in the ‘ Copa Del Rey’ quarter final second-leg over here at Malaga, it was a thrilling game, Pique got on the score sheet and dedicated his goal to his new born son ‘ Milan !? It was 4-2 0n the night and 6-4 on aggregate as Barcelona set up a semi-final place against their arch-rivals Real Madrid who progressed after beating Valencia, the other semi-final is between Athletico Madrid who play Sevilla.

This morning,Friday we shot down early to Sabinillas for our weekend shopping; it is still cool and overcast so we are having another at home day; the dog is here and is playing around the house as she shadows Brenda. Mano and Anna called in to pick up the papers and have a chat just after lunch. Tonight we are having Fresh Large Gambas( See the picture's above) again as they are so cheap at the moment, I will try them out on our new griddle pan- dry with just a little salt and lots of Lemon Juice on them after they are cooked! Mmmm!!! Later we caught a very good legal thriller " A Time to Kill " from 1996 based in the deep south of Mississippi with a great cast; Mathew McConaughey,Kevin Spacey,Patrick McGoohan,Donald and Kiefor Sutherland,Samuel L Jackson,Ashley Judd and Sandra Bullock ! The late film was " The Bourne Identity " with Matt Damon.

PS; This afternoon we managed to catch up with Tim, Thea and Jo on the Skype video- they had already started celebrating Jo getting a job set up in September after leaving university - at a school in downtown Ellesmere Port !Well done Jo !!

Thought for the Day;

A joy that’s shared is a joy made double.

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