WEDNESDAY
19th/ AUGUST 2015.
We managed
a little lie in this morning as we had no commitments in ‘Doggy World Heaven’ –
‘Reina’ is back with us tomorrow morning; the workmen are here in force working
inside the building as they build the internal walls, every morning more
cement, sand & bricks are dropped off at the top of our street, then the
large ‘JCB’ reverses up and down outside our house making a lot of noise from
the engine and reversing siren along with toxic fumes for next few hours! The freshly
painted street has been ruined by the black tire tracks!!
Our usual
breakfast of fresh Nectarines, Weetabix, toast & tea started the day off in
the right direction; it’s a lovely morning here in sunny Manilva as the sun is
out, the sky is blue and there is a very pleasant breeze to make it very
acceptable. It’s getting a little warmer over the next few days and the weekend
and next week it’s looking like more of the same!
I’ve just
spoken to Josie who is down on the beach in Sabinillas with Den, his daughter
Fliss and her two children, we are meeting them for an early ‘Tapas’ supper
tomorrow evening at ‘Bar Castillo’ as Den, Fliss and the kids are going flying
home on Friday morning; they live in Barrow-in-Furness on Walney Island, so Den
is going with them, Josie is staying here until the 2nd September
when she is due to fly over to Donegal in Ireland to see her daughter and
grandchildren before she finally makes it home into the arms of Den ‘ up north’
in Skelton later in September!!
As I was
reading the papers this morning there was an article about the ‘Beatles’ first
contract going up for sale in New York later in the year; it was when they were
in Hamburg in Germany back in 1961, they performed on a rock ‘n’ roll version
of “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” as the backing group to “Tony Sheridan and
the Beat Brothers” on the LP record! You could not mistake John Lennon &
Paul McCartney singing in the background, how do I know this?!
Well I had
a cherished copy of the LP (Long Playing Record)! which I gave away to charity
when we set off on our travels in the ‘Winnebago’ all those years ago. It was
in my very large collection of LPs, 45s & 12 inch records that all went to
a good home, at the time! Many happy memories of all the parties in our various
flats as we played them on our ‘State of the Art’ – at the time- award winning - “ Bang and
Olufsen Beogram” music system with record player & FM radio along with
double floor speakers producing the most famous sound quality – all touch
activated - back in the early 80s!!
PS; An
update on the ‘Skype’ video connection. I’ve managed to register a new version
as ‘MALCOLM SEXTON 70’ but have lost all my friends as it was uninstalling the
old one?! I’m working on it later as at the same time I have some problems with
the new password!! Watch this space.
Yesterday
afternoon we were up on the roof box/overn/chimmney for our ‘Happy Hour’ after
Lee & Daniela had picked up ‘Reina’- they are going to be our two witnesses
on the will documents, once we have them sorted, we are waiting on my papers
arriving in the post. I finished my latest ‘Simon Kernick’ and have started on
a new thriller written by the award winning ‘Harlan Coben’
This
evening for our supper we are having a late ‘Brunch’ with English Pork
Sausages, Spanish Smoked Bacon & Chorizo, local Tomato, Campo fried Egg and
anything else I can find in the fridge, a small dry Baked Potato on the side.
As usual
after supper we will catch up with all the world news, sport & weather
details before finding something to watch, last night it was football as the
new look Manchester Utd beat FC Brugge 3-1 – lately Brenda has been watching a
lot of Ladies Tennis from around the World and I’ve been following the ‘Ladies
World Championships’ Badminton from Jakata as the new champion is Spanish,
Carolina Marin, who was defending her title won the Gold Medal in a very
exciting final – only one problem – they played the old fascist era ‘National
Anthem’ with words – by mistake – the correct one has no words – only one of
the very few ‘National Anthems’ that you can’t sing along too – not too many
people know that – they do now!
Thoughts
for the Day; See above.
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