SUNNY AND A STILL HOT MANILVA AT THE START OF THE WEEKEND

FRIDAY 6^th/ SEPTEMBER 2013.

First thing this morning we shot down to Sabinillas for the weekend shopping; the forecast for today was something called ‘RAIN’ – In fact it Is very warm and sunny 30degs in sunny Manilva!? So much for the forecast!

We called into the wholesale/retail fruit and vegetable small market/shop first after stopping at ‘Super Sol’ for some English goods, their fish counter was still open so for a change we bought some lovely fresh baby Soles and local fresh Gambas for tonight’s supper; at the same time I picked up some assorted fresh fish to put away ready to make a Fish Pie at a later date. ‘Mercadona ‘is now back to normal after the holiday hoards have departed. Finally we called into the English bookshop for the newspapers and some more ‘Patterson’s’ to read.

After unpacking back at the house Brenda went off to the local market for some fresh flowers and came back with two pairs of new Knickers! (The Flower Stall man was not there!) I went down to our butchers for our Saturday night ‘Steak a la Plancha’ and no I did not come back with any new underpants!!

SPORTS NEWS UPDATE;

Today’s 13^TH? stage of ‘La Vuelta 2013’ is from Valles to Casteldefeis over 169kms as you can see above in the relief map. Tomorrow they enter the Pyrenees! They came down to the coast again at Sitges and then along a spectacular coast road into the finish at Casteldefeis where the young French rider Warren Barguil won the stage,no change in the overall standings.

Tonight it’s the ‘FIFA World Cup Qualifying’ matches, England are playing Moldova (If they can find a team!) and its Finland v Spain. No ‘Premier League’ this weekend and next Saturday Barcelona play Seville and Real Madrid are at Villareal.

England won 4-0 and Spain won 0-2 !

Meanwhile over in Flushing Meadows at the ‘US Open Tennis’ both Federer and Murray have been knocked out and Nadel is playing out of his skin!

This weekend it’s the ‘ Italian Grand Prix’ from Monza.

And finally over the weekend it’s the announcement of who is going to host the “ 2020 Olympics ” between Tokio,Istanbul and MADRID!

This evening we are having the Baby Soles ‘A la Meuniere’ with baby New Potatoes and Garden Peas with some homemade ‘Tartar sauce’ on the side which I’ am just about to make! Then I will try and find a film to watch that Brenda likes with no loud music,shouting,fighting,shooting,stabbing,bad language,war,cowboys,car chases and sex! I think its going to be a hard job!!

Well I had a partial success with the epic,romantic,comedy-drama " Forrest Gump " from 1994 starring Tom Hanks,Robin Wright,Gary Sims and Sally Fields - it won six Oscars including Best Picture,Director and Best Actor for Tom Hanks; Brenda watched it from start to finish - her verdict ' Soppy !' Well you can't please everybody !!

PS; This evening on Facebook I had a message from Brian over in Finland,he was asking if the news that he had read about a young motor cyclist being killed yesterday lunchtime on the road down to Sabinillas was actually the son of his friends,I had read the name but it didn't mean anything to me,so I rang Mano and asked him,it was Brian's friends son so I got back in touch with him to confirm the sad news; I turns out that we know them as well as they they used to run a bar next to Bodega Augustin,we just missed the accident as it happened just after we came up the road on the bus. Our deepest condolence's go to them and all the family.

Thought for the Day; See above.

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