OVERCAST AND COOL IN SUNNY MANILVA ON SATURDAY;

SATURDAY 8^th/ FEBRUARY 2014.

We had a nice long lie in this morning after some early starts during the week; the forecast today is not as good as we are getting once again the tail end of the Atlantic storms hitting the UK. We can’t complain as the rest of Spain especially along the Atlantic coast has been hit very badly with lots of damage just like in England during this week.

After our tea, toast and Banana I’ am back up in the office to try and get on-line to watch BBC TV1s ‘Saturday Morning Kitchen’ live, in the last couple of days the new satellite has come on-line and so most of Spain has now lost all BBC TV and at any moment ITV as well on their normal TV channels on their TVs!

My system using ‘Film On’ on the PCs is one of the ways that you are supposed to be able to still get them, it was forecast nearly a year ago that this was going to happen, it has worked up to last week when I couldn’t manage to get on-line, last night I just about was able to watch ‘New Tricks’ only to find out that it was not the new series but a repeat! So this morning I’ve tried again but at the moment with no luck! Watch this space. At this moment as I’ am typing the Blog I’ am also watching ‘SMK!’ – just!!

Today it’s a big sports day over here and in England with Football and Rugby taking the main lead; last nights opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Sochi was spectacular to say the least! The ‘Match of the Day’ is Liverpool v Arsenal followed by Norwich V Manchester City, Everton are at Spurs on Sunday; over here Real Madrid welcome Villarreal and Barcelona are at Seville.

At the moment after 20 mins Liverpool are WINNING 4-0 !!!! Final score 5-1 ! City could only draw 0-0 whilst Chelsea won 3-0 and go top of the Premier League!

In the ‘Six Nations Rugby’ the big game of the day is up at Murrayfield in the ‘Calcutta Cup’ when Scotland welcome England. David has gone up to watch the game but Jane has a bad back so is not with him, the pitch is waterlogged and so it going to be ‘Mud-bath!’ Meanwhile Wales go to Dublin to play Ireland.

Ireland beat Wales 26 -3 with 'Sexton!' scoring 4 penalties; England won 0-20 on a pitch that David says 'You would not plant Turnips on!!'

This evening we are going to the ‘Inauguration’ opening service at ‘ Iglesia Santa Ana’ church after the refurbishment when the entire village will be there. Some pictures later.See above with the Bishop of Malaga,the new local priest and  'Padre Manolo' the,much loved previous priest and the village dignitary's.

Afterwards for supper we are having our regular Saturday night ‘Steak a la Plancha’ with sautéed Mushrooms and Onions, finely sliced Green Beans, twice cooked chips and ‘Béarnaise’ sauce on the side – mine topped with a soft-fried Campo Egg and Brenda’s with deep-fried Garlic buds!

Last night we found a good film to watch “ 12 Rounds” from 2009 – it’s an all-action American thriller that takes place in New Orleans; it stars John Cena as the cop,Aidan Gillen as the ‘Baddie’ the love interest is played by Ashly Scott – lots of action and mayhem!

Thought for the Day; See above.

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