SUNNY AND STILL A VERY HOT MANILVA AT THE START OF ANOTHER WEEK

MONDAY 2^nd/ SEPTEMBER 2013.

We had a nice lie in this morning after all the excitement of the weekend; it’s a Bank Holiday just in the village to give them all a chance to recuperate! Brenda is having a washing/drying morning and I’ am up in the office sending thank you messages to the councilors and now Facebook ‘Friends!’ Yesterday evening just as we were finishing our Chicken curry one of our neighbour’s called in as she was passing our open front door, ‘Arecel(Isobel) Luque’live down at the bottom of our street with her family and she was showing us some Facebook pictures, it turns out as you get chatting that as usual in Manilva everybody is related to everybody!

This week is quiet by even our standards so we are just pottering about doing nothing, which we really enjoy, we hope to see the dog soon as it must be nearly time for her to come back off her holiday’s from the family Campo and we will then be able to go out for our regular village walks again – also it will start to get just a little cooler in sunny and a still very hot Manilva!

So this afternoon I will be watching the ‘Vuelta 2013’ stage 9 which is the first mountainous stage in this years tour; it starts in the Granada region of Andalusia in the town of Torredelcampo and ends up at Guijar Sierra - Alto Hazallenas after 187kms.On the TDP Sports channel I will also catch up with yesterdays action and also the Motor GP over at Silverstone.

With a briilliant solo breakaway ride up the final climb above the lake the USA rider Chis Horner won stage 10 by nearly 50 seconds and now is in the RED jersey from Nibali,with Valverde 3rd - how the three finished on the climb!

We will be back up on the roof terrace later reading out latest ‘Patterson’s for our ‘Happy Hour’ before supper tonight which is ‘Steak a la Plancha’ with twice cooked Chips and all the trimmings. We will also sort out our ‘Menu’s’ for the week after we check what’s in the deep-freeze and also what we fancy!

This evening or some time tomorrow we are going to get in touch with Jack and Lyn over in Melbourne on the Skype video as we have not spoken to then in a while so we need a good old ‘Chin-Wag’ and catch up!

Thought for the Day; See above.

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