SUNNY MANILVA AND SABINILLAS TODAY

THURSDAY 4^th/ JULY 2013.

It was time for a little lie in this morning until were awoken by the street cleaners jet washing our street; the council ever month washes down all the streets and every few months they give special attention to the parts that need it with the jet wash!

This morning Brenda has gone down to the beach on the bus as our doctor yesterday recommended that she bath in sea water from time to time as it would be good for her circulation especially her legs and feet.The ‘Girl’ as just got back after her adventure-safe and sound!

In the new park this morning there was over 12 workmen going at it full pelt, they are observably aiming to get it finished by September 1^ST As you can see!

I saw her off on the bus and then came back to the house and into the kitchen to make another bowl of my now famous Spanish ‘Ensaladilla Rusa’ invented by a Russian in the late XIX century, I had with Brenda’s help before she left prepared all the ingredients.

As you can see I’ am now on the WWW.catching up with all the news,e-mails etc. On ‘facebook’ last night a picture appeared on the ‘Colwyn Bay Past and Present’ page were I have got my Colwyn Bay pictures from in the past, it showed the ‘Hotel Seventy Degrees’in the late 1970s! Lots of comment have now appeared, all good, including one from a very loyal and hard working friend Lynda who worked as a waitress for us for many years and now runs a very successful soft furnishing business in Old Colwyn – she in fact did all the curtains and blinds in our house in Rhyd-y Foel as one of her first jobs! The picture is from the late 70s as all the signage is the ones that we put up, the fountain that I had built, I drew what I wanted on a back off a envelope and also you can make out our ‘Brown Volvo Estate’ parked in it’s spot!  Memories mostly happy!

This afternoon I will follow on TDP the 6^th stage of the ‘Tour de France’ which today starts in Aix-en-Provence and ends up in Montpellier along the coast of the ‘Languedoc’ region over 177kms – it is a flat sprinters stage so watch out for another Mark Cavendish win! See the pictures above of the spectacular 'Languedoc' region around Montpellier.

30kms from the finish Mark Cavendish had a nasty fall,he got back on his bike and was over 35 seconds behind the leaders;he managed to get back to the front of the main bunch with the help of his team mates,as they sprinted into Montpellier - but sadly he could only manage 4th after he had expanded so much energy getting back into the race! The German rider Andre Greipel won and Peter Sagan was second,normally  both these riders are behind Cavendish in the sprint!! The South African rider Daryl Impey has taken over the Yellow jersey,the first rider from his country to do so.

Today is also the 4^th of July over in America “ Independence Day ”when they celebrate the adoption of the ‘Declaration of Independence’ on the 4^th July 1776 ! All the best to our American friends and allies!?

Tonight after supper we will catch a film on the ‘Paramount Channel’as they are all new for July!

Thought for the Day; See above.

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