A VERY HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ON SUNDAY.

SUNDAY 24^th / APRIL 2016.

We just had a little lie in this morning and after a quick wash & brush we had breakfast, I made a ‘Smoked Bacon Butty’ for Brenda and I had ‘Campo Fried Eggs with Smoked Back Bacon’ & lots of buttered toast along with mugs of steaming tea; after watching the start of the ‘ London Marathon’ I’m up in the office, shortly to become my ‘Radio Studio’ – the “ ON AIR “ Red sign is in the post from China! After catching up with all the news, reading the E-Mails & Facebook messages etc I’m typing and posting the Blog, as you can see!

We had a nice E-Mail from our dear friends, Terry & Alma, who live in France, outside Caan, to say that they had listened to my first radio show yesterday morning, they had enjoyed it and commented on one particular track “ My Bonnie “ –many thanks! There were lots of likes and followers on Facebook, over 600, Andrew had posted a write up & picture on all the local sites before the show, announcing my arrival! Brenda listened to the whole programme and said that it was very good, better in the second half, when I got into my stride and more confident on the mixing deck and microphone! Hopefully over the next couple of weeks I will build up an audience both on the ‘ Castle Radio FM 89.2 & World Wide Online before ‘ Studio 4 ‘ here in the heart of Sunny Manilva starts broadcasting ‘ live’ Watch this space and listen!

Over in Melbourne this weekend all the family are celebrating ‘ Gentleman’ Jack’s 88^th birthday, as they also help Deb to move house, hopefully they managed to listen in, I gave them a good dedication and played a track for them! Back in the UK both Norah & Jenny could also have caught the show, online?!

'Young ' Jack - looking good with his ' old' lady Lyn !

Later this morning our new/ second hand car is being dropped off, the ‘ Silver Mercedes Limousine- Daewo Tacuma ‘ by Rose & Adrian, Mano is arranging the transfer documents and changing the insurance on Monday morning, its then going into our local garage where Pedro will give it the once over and check out the radio and air conditioning. While I was live ‘on air’ yesterday I sold the ‘Red Ferrari – Fiesta’ to Andrew’s daughter in law! I had mentioned to him about the cars as we were talking before the show, he rang her and she came around and took it for a test drive, later he let me know that she wanted it and we are arranging things over the next couple of days!!   “ RESULT “ !!

PS; It’s just arrived and we are going for a little drive later, on Adrian’s insurance,  ‘ Happy Days ‘

We ended up going along the coast road to 'Sotogrande Marina' and then stopped for an executive lunch treat at the " Midas & Co " Restaurante  & Tapas Bar which is in part of the ' Club Maritimo' building; its just changed hands and the new 'Sommelier'' Jose Antonio looked after us very well,  after seeing us into a car parking space right in front of the restaurante! Brenda had a very nice glass of the house 'White Marques Riscal' and I had my usual, Brenda ordered the Turbot, cooked on the new grill and I had a ' Chateaubriand' also cooked on the grill, with 'Frits' & Bearnaise sauce.- both very good and served on very hot plates with seasonal vegetables. See the pictures above including a two person 'Rib of Bee' coming out to the next table! We shall return.

PS; This evenings supper of ' Smoked Chicken & Three Green Bean Risotto' has been put back to tomorrow night! 

We have another very hot & sunny day down here on the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ – there is no breeze and its due to reach 26degs,the start of next week is also looking rather good with more of the same to come!

Just a quick update on the football results from yesterday; Manchester City won 4-0, Liverpool could only draw 2-2 and Everton lost in the 91^st minute 1-2 to Manchester Utd, not a good week for the ‘ Blues’ as in the mid-week ‘Derby’ Game they lost 4-0 to Liverpool, both the two Brian’s will not be happy! Real Madrid won 2-3 & Barcelona won 6-0 with Suerez scoring 4! Its very tight at the top of ‘ La Liga’ with four games to go!

Last night after supper we watched the ‘Michael Mcintyre’s Big Show’ on BBC1 then over on ITV1 ‘ Britain’s Got Talent’ before catching the late film over TVE1 – a strange ‘ drama/thriller’ based in Venice ‘ The Tourist’ from 2010 and starring Jonny Deep & Angelina Jolie with Paul Bettany & Timothy Dalton.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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