SUNNY MANILVA AT THE START OF ANOTHER HOT WEEK.

MONDAY 1^st/ JULY 2013.

This morning I shot round to the surgery first thing to make some appointments with our Doctor for updates and check ups; when I got back we went for a long walk around the village with dog as you can see in the pictures above, we don’t know when we will see her next as all the family are moving down to their ‘Campo’ in the valley below the village for the next few weeks – we will miss her terribly!

After the big exciting weekend of sport I’ am in the office this lunchtime catching up on the WWW; then this afternoon I will watch the ‘Tour de France’- stage 3 from Ajaccio up the hilly West coast to Calvi over 146kms – the picture’s from the helicopter coverage are spectacular and show how beautiful the Island is! They then transfer back to France on an hour long flight for tomorrow’s stage 4 which is a ‘Team-Time-Trial’ over 25kms around Nice.

Tonight for supper we are having a ‘Sexton Mixed Grill’ after raiding the deep-freeze; Steak, Lamb Cutlets, Pork Escalopes,Sausage,Smoked Bacon,Tomato,sautéed Mushrooms and Onions with a fried ‘Campo Egg’ on mine and some of last nights ‘Boulangere potatoes’!! That should keep us going until the next feast!!!

FILMS OVER THE WEEKEND;

We watched “ Great Expectations” from 1998 – the ‘Re-make’ with a young and gorgeous Gwyneth Paltrow,Ethan Hawks, Robert de Niro and Ann Bancroft in the main parts, it follows the story and keeps to the tale but is based in New York and down on the Gulf in Louisiana in modern times!!

Then we caught a film that you can watch again even if you have seen it before; “ Chocolat” from 2000 with the very ‘French’and beautiful actress Juliete Binoche with Lena Olin,Judy Dench,Lesley Caron and for the ladies Johanny Depp !It was partly filmed in 'Flavigny-sur-0zeran in Burgundy.

The late film on Monday on the film channel was a techno-thriller called " Virtuosity " from 1995 with Denzel Washington as the good guy and Russel Crowe as the bad guy?! Kelly Lynch and Kaley Cuoco play the mother and daughter mixed up in the tale!

Thought for the Week; See above.

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