Saturday 6th December 2008- This weather is nice

We awoke to a blue sky and the sun shining over the bay. Just beautiful.

We did our long walk along the beach in the morning and had a cup of tea at the Taipa Beach Resort and whilst sitting there remembered at the last moment, that the butchers close at 1pm on Saturday, and so had to rush down to Coopers Beach for a little shopping before a quick cheese and biscuits lunch.

In the afternoon, Steve and Mary, friends of Brian and Sheila, came over for afternoon tea along with Carol a friend who is staying with them. Steve is the Technology teacher at Taipa School. It takes him five minutes to cycle to school compared to when he lived in Saddleworth, near Bury, Lancashire, much, much longer and by car. Steve suddenly decided that he had had enough of the UK weather and everything and took a chance five years ago and took a job here. He has not looked back since and as he is the outdoor type and now has his own sailing boat and canoe he is active all the time. Last week they took a group of kids snorkelling, can’t easily do this in Manchester.

Which reminds me that one of the supermarkets here sells their cotton wear as ‘Manchester’ which is the historic name for cottons when Manchester used to be the centre of this industry. I suggested that they change the name to ‘United’ as that is better known.

The sailing boats were also out yesterday and those on a training course were towed out into the bay where they could sail to their hearts content.

The house next to us is used as a rental property. A week ago we had a large group of Chinese who were a little noisy, shades of Hong Kong. And this week a family with Track motor bikes who lead some form of training and so in the morning we awoke on a couple of days to a motor cycle alarm call. We think they have left now.

When writing this on Sunday, have noticed that Chelsea won at Bolton, sorry Jen, and they are chasing Liverpool who are bound to slip up soon. Let’s hope the games are on TV this afternoon.