MANILVA START OR THE WEEK.

MONDAY/TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY 25th/26th/27th JUNE 2012.

First of all the weather forecast for the week ; are you ready ? It’s more of the same ! Sun, Sun and more Sun down here on the ‘ Costa Del Sol ’ !! On Monday I started the 48 hr diet regime on the run up to the Wednesday investigation – so it was tea with no milk and toast with no butter to start ! At lunchtime we had Steak a la Plancha dry with no oil or butter and for dinner it was poached Breast of Chicken just as it came ! Brenda is going along with the diet in symphony !! In the afternoon Mano and Anna called in with two bottles of Cava as a belated birthday for Brenda as Mano had a very busy weekend at the villa with a large wedding reception ; we caught up with all their news and gossip and Anna and Brenda cracked open the Cava and Mano had a few beers – sadly no alcohol for me ! ( Brenda did not come out in symphony this time ) ! !

Tuesday morning was then onto the 24 hr liquid diet – so water only – then later the 2 litre laxative at 6-00pm ! As I was checking the WWW. in the office I noticed that one of the pensions had come in a day early – and nearly had an heart attack as on the calendar the hospital appointment was marked for Tuesday not Wednesday – we had got our dates mixed up ! I rang the hospital straight away and explained and they cancelled the appointment but they could not give me another as the computer system was down – they said the only way was to go to the x-ray department at the hospital to sort it out so we shot across to the hospital and then got caught in the system for a while before we got help from a friendly consultant who arranged for a new appointment on Wednesday lunchtime which meant that I could carry on with the regime as normal ! Phew !!

So Wednesday morning Brenda administered the necessary and let mother nature take its cause ! Just before we left we had a nice Skype Video call from Brian and Lilli in Pori,Finland to wish Brenda belated birthday wishes as they had been away – it sounds like they are coming over for the ‘ Vendimia ’ festival at the start of September ! Watch out ! I saw that Zoë and Graham were on-line so we had a quick chat with them over in Manchester at the same time. We then made our way across back to the hospital – this is when we encountered the new tunnel open as you can see below; the appointment was on time and I went into the special x-ray department with three very nice nurses ! They gave me one injection and then set up an intravenous system in my arm after giving me a full check over and signing the consent form ! The good news was that it was only a special series of eternal x-ray’s not internal ! It took a long time and near the end I had to at their request go for ‘ Pee Pee ’as the nurse put it – which is a bit of a problem as I had not had any liquids for twelve hours – positive thinking was called for !! Success !! I emerged over an hour later to find Brenda was sat on her own as all the other appointments had finished. I then had a nice drink of cool water and a banana before we set off back. On the way back we decided to do some essential shopping as we where over in Marbella – we called at the car accessories supermarket and picked up a steering wheel cover ( Pink Polka Dots ) – it was the only one that they had ! Then we found the glass picture frame that we needed in ‘ Leroy Merlin ’ and finally in the new ‘ Habitat ’in the shopping mall ‘ La Canada ‘we found a glass beaker replacement for our ‘ La Caffetire ’ that was broken in the wash ! A good result all round !
In the evening for dinner we had minute Steak a la Plancha with crisp chips and I had a fried egg on top ! We then settled down to watch the first semi-final Spain v Portugal – Spain did not play well and at times Portugal outplayed them but Ronaldo and Nani did not come up to their full potential and the game was a boring goalless draw ! Spain won 4-2 on the penalty shoot out but are very lucky to be in the final – the other semi-final tonight is between Germany, the favorites, and Italy – Spain will have to play out of their skins to win whoever they play I’ am sorry to say ! Watch this space.

PS; Germany lost to Italy 2-1 and were totally outplayed by the Italians in attack and defense and Balotelli scored the two cracking goals to set up the final against Spain - they played in the group stages and the score was 1-1 so it's all to play for !


Thought for the Day;


Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.


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