SUNNY AND HOT MANILVA ON SATURDAY

SATURDAY 20^th/ JULY 2013.

Well the folks are now on the plane back to Australia so we wish then a safe and pleasant flight back to ‘Winter’ in Melbourne, they have their ‘Woolies’ ready and are changing on the plane, we will call them on Wednesday on the Skype video after they have had time to catch up with their sleep!

This morning it is already very hot, too hot for the painter and decorator to start on the roof terrace; I’ve also given her the weekend off so the plan is to start rather early on Monday morning as there is a time slot due to the heat i.e.; first thing in the morning and later in the evening when the sun has moved off the terrace!

On the small PC I have connected to the live channel to watch BBCTV and ‘Saturday Morning Kitchen’ and are at the moment watching the ‘Breakfast Show’ as I’ am typing the blog on the larger PC! Oh ‘B----r its not on today, live golf has taken over!! We are lost without the dog coming up to see us; she has been away on her holidays for nearly three weeks down at the family ‘Campo’ in the valley below the village.

SPORTS UPDATE;

It’s another ‘Helluva’ weekend of sport to follow on TV and the PCs;

The Open Golf Championship – the leader on the scoreboard is the 49 year old Spanish golfer Miguel Angel Jimenez, the large cigar smoking, Red wine drinking with ‘Red hair’ is 1 shot in the lead with Lee Westwood and Tiger Woods on his heels for today’s third round; Lee Westwood has a 2 shot lead going into the final round over Tiger Woods.

The Second Ashes Test match at Lord’s – England are dominant as they bowled the Australians out for 125, their lowest score at Lord’s in over 45 years, they now lead them by nearly 300 runs!

At the close of play England lead Australia by 566 runs with an unbeaten 178 from Joe Root?! 

Motor GP from the ‘Laguna Seca’ circuit in California – my favorite race as they take on the hilly course and go down the infamous ‘Corkscrew’ blind bends, Lorenzo and Pedrosa are back after their crashes two weeks ago in Germany, yesterday the young Honda rider Marquez was fastest in practice.

The German rider Stefan Bradl is on his first pole position with Marquez who had never ridden at the track before on the second spot.

And finally;

“The Tour de France” stage 20 starting in the ‘Haut Savoie’ region in the town of Annecy, the ‘Venice of the Alps’ due to the canals in the center of the town and ending up back in Annecy-Semoz just down the road after another 125kms of climbing in the Alps! Phew!! Six climbs on the shortest and penultimate stage of the tour.

'Lake Annecy' next to the town us the third largest lake in France and is the 'French' part of 'Lake Geneva' - it is also has the cleanest and purest water in France.

Nairo Quintara from Colombia has just won his first stage win in the tour,it won't be his last,he has also at the same time gone second in the overall standings,won the 'Polka Dot'jersey as 'King of the Mountains' and also the 'White' jersey as the best rider under 25! Not a bad day for him!! Chris Froome was third and made another 2min-28sec on Contador - the Spanish rider Joachim Rodriquez was second and goes third in the overall classification ! So Chris Froome has the Yelow jersey on his way to Paris tomorrow and leads by 5min-03secs - a victory parade !! 

Tonight for supper we are having Steak a la Plancha with all the trimmings before we catch a film on the ‘Paramount Film Channel’

Thought for the Day; See above.

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