SATURDAY 19th/
SUNDAY 20th/ JANUARY 2013.
After the
storm had passed we were left with the wind gusting every so often; at
lunchtime it brought down our next door neighbours, Anna, shutters which I
retrieved from up the street for her, so it was a at home day for the Sextons
in a still unbelievably sunny Manilva! The dog appeared during the morning; she
missed crashing through the shutters as usual and stayed inside playing for the
rest of the morning. In the afternoon I watched the football from England Liverpool had a good win against Norwich Manchester City Southampton . Over in ‘ La Liga ’there was a big shock when Barcelona squandered a
0-2 lead and lost 2-3 at Real Sociedad who scored the winning goal in injury
time! In the evening for supper it was our usual ‘Steak Night ’ with our new ‘
Griddle Pan’ that we bought on Friday in Supersol-a bargain as it is a very
heavy duty one that we have been looking for; we then settled down to watch a
film, it was a Spanish film, we do watch some Spanish films as we are just
about able to follow them, called “The 13 Roses”from 2007.We have seen it
before and I have written about it on the blog, but as we learn more about
Spain and the Civil War we are able to understand more about the history, the
13 women,Republian supporters and at the same time 48 men were shot towards the
end of the Civil war in 1939, in Madrid as Franco was starting to celebrate
winning in reprisal for the shooting of some of his supporters- they had
nothing to do with the killings – they were innocent victims ! It is very moving and of course it is a true
story so it brings home the horrors of the Civil War which to this day are
still remembered in a ceremony at the graves each year – the war is still in
the news, only last week they were exhuming bodies from a mass grave and the
scars run deep in politics and government.
On Sunday
we had a little lie in before Getting the ‘ Coq Au Vin’ on the go; sadly Andy
had to call off as he had been called into work at the Aparthotel on the 5-12
shifts so our second choice, standbys guests – Mano and Anna were invited and
excepted! Mano helped me to put the shutter back up when they arrived and we
then had a very enjoyable meal as you can see in the picture below; I even had Croutons
as a garnish, you can see the marks on them from the new griddle pan and
Brenda’s mash went down a treat, I had made the ‘Crepe ’mix in the morning and
we had then with Sugar and Lemon and Vanilla Ice cream! I had watched the
football in the afternoon, Chelsea just managed to hold onto a win against
Arsenal 2-1and then Utd,could only draw with Spurs 1-1 who equalized in injury
time much to Sir Alex’s displeasure! Here Real Madrid thrashed Valencia 0-5
with Ronaldo scoring 2 and Atl.Madrid won 2-0 so are now only 8 points behind
Barcelona with Real up to 15 points adrift! We than caught up with the news and
weather on TVE1.
Thoughts
for the Day;
Bravery is
being the only one who knows you’re afraid. Fight till the last gasp.
…
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