Around the valle february 2019 Issue no. 2
Chairmans report by sue Jones I’m pleased to say I have managed to shake off the bronchitis that plagued me earlier in January and am looking forward to getting back to normal. It has been quite a cold start to the year but at least we don’t have the snow that seems to be covering the UK and we do have the beautiful almond blossom which is appearing all over to cheer us up. Keeping warm is the most important thing for all of us as we are getting older.
Please remember, if you haven’t renewed your membership it is time to do so, remember we cannot book you onto trips and events at the members rate unless your membership is up to date . There is still time to book for the Menu del Dia on the 14th of this month and also the Petanc and Wine tasting, please note the change of venue due to the ongoing works at the cultural centre in Viñuela.
There are still places available for the Cordoba trip, but the hotel will not hold the booking beyond 1st March so we must have the final numbers before the end of February a deposit of €50 will secure your place. The AGM is fast approaching and your committee is, as always, looking for new members and welcome you with open arms, please give it some thought, there is only so much we can do on our own.
contents CHAIRMANS REPORT JANUARY MEETING
january meeting by alan impey
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The first meeting of 2019, delayed by a week due to a clash with The Three Kings
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celebrations on 5th/6th January. Traditionally January meetings are not that well attended so it was encouraging that in the region of 50 members turned up along with two new members. Sue was indisposed so it fell to Anne to open the meeting at 7.35pm with the usual report on how events had progressed and what events were available in the coming months. All details of these are available in the newsletter, on the website and from the committee members in attendance at Meson Sara from 11.30 to 12.30 each Friday.
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS & EVENTS & WALK SCHEDULE TRIP TO CORDOBA JANUARY WALK
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SUPPER NIGHT
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NEWS FROM SAT.CO COMMITTEEE
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11 After a short break Anne introduced Chris, (our Treasurer) who was going to host a general knowledge quiz.
Teams of mainly six were assembled and the questions began. There were music questions, picture questions, religious questions and general knowledge with a top score of 63 being there for the taking!!!!!!
Chris was happy to let each team mark their own papers and on conclusion, around 8.50pm, the winning team was declared with a creditable score of 47. The team members were, Peter D, Peter G, Brenda, Nick, Jeanette and Chris. They were rewarded with a bottle of wine apiece!!!!!!! Anne then went to announce the draw for the cash box but there was no winner so the money rolls over to next month. Thanks to all the committee and special thanks to Chris for hosting the quiz. I am sure everyone is aware of the “closure” of Puente de don Manuel Bridge and also that traffic seems to be still using it!!!! I went to ask el jefe (the boss) of the works about this and he told me that it was still open to “residents” when I enquired as to what made a resident I was given the ubiquitous Spanish shoulder shrug.
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS February 4th
Musical evening with Alan & Lorraine
March 4th
Quiz with our Guest Quiz Master, Adrian
April 1st
AGM with free draw for members followed by Scottish Country Dancing with George & Hazel Bain
May 6th
CPR Demonstration and general First Aid with Jason Bland
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Menu del dia Pippo’s, algarrobo 14:00 Price €10 members If you are on the el valle walk that day, the lunch will follow and will need to be booked in advance
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Our annual petanc competition Torre del mar 10:15 meet for 10:30 start Followed by menu del dia at tanit €12 members
March 22ND WINE TASTING EVENING IN church room below maroma estates 7:30 â‚Ź5 MEMBERS ONLY Tuesday april 23rd Trip to granada science park Leave mis tapitas 08:30 Cost â‚Ź20.00 to include entrance to the museum & plantarium
WALKS SCHEDULE FEBRUARY 14th
Led by Stewart. Start in the Lidl car park in Algarrobo at 11:00 Menu after at Pipos restaurant,Algarrobo (combined with Menu del Dia for other club members). Menu must be booked and paid for in advance.
MARCH 14th
Led by Ray and Caz Edwards. Start at 11:00 at their house on Arenas road out of Velez Malaga at Km 4, look for the Los Almendras sign on right and go down concrete road and over bridge, 250 mtrs after house and parking on left. After at Limonar Restaurant in Velez Malaga
APRIL 11th
Led by Terry, Rubi and Jane Frost. Walk will be out of Guaro, just north of Periana, start 11:00 at the Bar/Restaurant in the village and after, lunch at the restaurant.
MAY 9th
Led by Rebecca and Martyn Higgins. Start 11:00 TBA
JUNE 13th
Led by Neil and Pauline Marland. Start 11:00 TBA
TRIP TO LOS PATIOS CORDOBA
13th MAY 2019 DEPARTURE AT 7:00 AM FROM PUENTE DON MANUEL, TO THE HOTEL EUROSTARS CONQUISTADOR IN CORDOBA. ARRIVAL AT HOTEL, AND FREE TIME FOR LUNCH. AFTERNOON TO VISIT CORDOBA, AND GUIDED VISIT TO THE FESTIVAL OF THE CORDOBA PATIOS, AS EVERY YEAR THE CORDOBIANS PREPARE AND OPEN THEIR PATIOS TO THE PUBLIC TO ENTER IN A CONCOURSE WHERE BEAUTY AND DECORATION ARE VALUED. FREE TIME FOR DINNER, ACCOMMODATION AT THE HOTEL.
2nd DAY BREAKFAST AT THE HOTEL. IN THE MORNING, FREE TIME TO CONTINUE VISITING THE CITY OF CORDOBA. AFTER LUNCH, DEPARTURE TO THE POINT OF ORIGIN, COST PER PERSON INCLUDING BED & BREAKFAST IN THE HOTEL, GUIDED TOUR OF THE PATIOS IN ENGLISH AND COACH TRIP THERE AND BACK
€102.50 PP FOR MEMBERS inc. Tip for driver CONTACT SUE ON 680407894 OR EMAIL newslettereditor2012@gmail.com
JANUARY walk by ALAN IMPEY The first walk of 2019, and it was to be all very local!!!! Meeting Point was at Meson Sara’s, Puente don Manuel and the Eating point was also at Meson Sara Douglas and Jane were responsible for the walk route and for leading the walk but unfortunately due to a long lasting injury Jane was unable to walk but she did take control of the eating arrangements.
Twenty six walkers set off with a warning from Douglas that close to the start was a lengthy and continuous incline which was also a tad steep and that if anyone felt it was too much then an about turn was the solution for them!!!!!
As we then continued on a hillside, contouring path, the views were amazing and the weather perfect for walking. We eventually dropped down from the hillside towards the Alcaucin road, which had to be crossed, to drop down into the Venta Baja Valley. This was another of Douglas’s concern points as the final descent was steep and loose underfoot but he need not have worried and everyone reached the river bed safely. At this point I had to increase my pace somewhat as “she who must be obeyed” had decided not to walk but would attend the meal and would require chauffeuring from home to Meson Sara. The meal, as we have come to expect, at Meson Sara was a good value menu del dia and of the thirty one diners it would be interesting to know how many opted for the baked ham egg and chips that is always popular. Certainly on our table of ten there were a lot of takers!!!! Thank you Douglas and Jane for your efforts in making the day a success. Walk Details. Distance Total Time Start Height
Oh ye of little faith!!!!!! When the climb was finished, and all the hard work done with, everyone was still chatting away as though they had just had a stroll in the park. Douglas was surprised and to be fair so was I.!!!!!
High Point Moving Time
5.09 kms. 1hr. 46mins. 200 mtrs 400 mtrs 1hr. 24mins
Stopped Time 22mins.
Supper night by alan impey Another El-Valle first in 2019, the ever popular Film Night, following on from the first 2019 walk and monthly meeting we are once again in the rooms under Maroma Estates at Cruce de Perianna for a film showing and supper although we should reverse that to supper and film showing!!!! Twenty nine tickets were sold for the Film Night and the food was provided by Bethune and Barbara. Bethune’s offering was lasagne and garlic bread and Barbara’s, chicken cacciatore with rice. As usual table by table were invited up to receive their choice of food and when the table I was sharing were called I opted to have the lasagne and garlic bread. No complaints from me, I thoroughly enjoyed my meal. Sadly!!!!!! after finishing my meal and allowing a suitable time to pass to not appear greedy!!! I enquired about the possibility of trying the chicken dish purely in the interest of writing a fair and balanced report only to be told everything was gone!!!!!! Our chefs had calculated perfectly with the amount of food prepared. I did however ask some of the folk who had chosen the chicken what they thought of their choice and everything was complimentary, no complaints at all. After clearing the tables, moving the tables and arranging the seating it was time for the film.
A change to our regular projectionist in that Stewart has opted for a Caribbean Cruise instead, leaving Louis to officiate in his place!!! The film on offer is Kingsman, The Golden Circle, a sequel to Kingsman, The Secret Service, which has been previously aired by el-valle. Film Details; Released September 2017, Directed by Mathew Vaughn, Main stars, Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Halle Berry, Elton John, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, and Mark Strong. Film Budget, 81 million pounds sterling, (€91,291,720.00) Box Office, 319 million pounds sterling. (€360,777,855.00) Film Run Time 141 minutes. Kingsman is an independent, international intelligence agency operating at the highest level of discretion, whose ultimate goal is to keep the world safe!!! In Kingsman: The Golden Circle, a new challenge is
faced when their headquarters are destroyed, many of their agents killed and the world held to hostage. Whilst battling to restore order they discover an allied spy organisation in America called Statesman and the two organisations band together to defeat the common enemy, The Golden Circle, the world’s largest drugs cartel, and save the world!!!!!! It also transpires that when joining forces with Statesman, Kingsman discover that Galahad, played by Colin Firth in the first film, Kingsman: The Secret Service, did not die as we all thought but was saved by Statesman technology albeit with amnesia!!!!! Apparently following the success of the first Kingsman film it was decided that there would be a trilogy and of course we have just watched the second in the series. The final film in the series was rumoured to be due for release in Autumn of November 2019 but this has not been confirmed. It only remains to say a big thank you to Louis, Bethune and Barbara for their efforts to make the night a success and also I would like to include Julie in this as she also played a part in the preparation of the evening even though she is not officially on the El-Valle committee.
News from sat.co by dick atterbury For all of you who enjoy your Spanish TV from your local transmitter you may find a few missing channels. No problem it always happens in January and all you need to do is select the Menu on the remote and do an automatic re tune to bring it up to date. The channels are moved around to make room for the new channels that come on. The next question I wish to pose is Do you Really need a Smart TV. Many of our customers are buying the latest SMART range of TVs only to find they are not using all the facilities built in and they do cost around 150 euros more than a standard TV. If you look on it basically you are buying a TV with a built in computer and it allows you to use your TV remote as a mouse. Many people believe that by buying a Smart TV they will get all the programmes with just a connection to the Internet. Not strictly true! If you are buying a new TV get some good advice and hang onto that hard earned money. We at Sat.Co will always give FREE advice. If you buy your TV from us we will deliver and set it up for you for free. Another problem that we are finding is that people will buy a new TV only to find when they get it home they cannot connect other items to it because it has not got the correct connectors on the TV for the devic-
es they wish to connect. For example not enough HDMI sockets. We at Sat.Co can supply both Satellite TV and various Internet TV packages. Our new Vu Zero box for satellite TV is light years ahead of some of the others. It will allow you to follow a 7 day programme guide so you can see what is coming on. It will allow you to watch one channel and be recording 4 other channels all at the same time so you will never miss all the programmes. It automatically labels all the programmes so you know what to playback. It comes with sub titles for the hard of hearing; all in High definition running direct from the satellite at 77 MB per second so no buffering. Many people are turning to Internet TV or IPTV as it is generally known. Sat.Co has a wide range of packages that are available and as long as you have a Good Internet connection you could be watching up to 1500 English Speaking channels, and, with a film library of 72000 Films & 14 days catch up you never need to miss a programme. For the Sports persons we have all the Sky sports. Sky films, box sets, Euro Sport, all the football league games and a music library of 500.000 bits of music, hundreds of radio channels.
Sat.Co is always available to give demonstrations of all the equipment we supply so give us a call if we can help. And if you have read this far and want a bit more look at our website at www.satcoeurope.com. Or call us on 657 484 853. If you have a question which you would like to discuss in this newsletter please give us a call as I am slowly running out of ideas for future newsletters and would welcome some thoughts from you. ************************
Hot off the press news As of the 10th of January the channel on Intel sat 907 which was FIL4+1 has now been changed to MORE4+1. We at Sat.Co have no control over this change of channel as it comes from the channel 4 providers. We will keep you up to date with any news. For those of you using the New Vu + Zero boxes we will have a software fix soon for the Electronic programme guide update. Come and see us at the Tuesday market or call us on 657 484 853 for any news.
Asociacion el valle del embalse Committee 2017/2018
Chair & Newsletter Editor Sue Jones Tel: 680407894
Treasurer: Chris Wishart Tel: 609952926
Almoner: Christine Goreham Tel: 635361233
Secretary: Stewart Common Tel: 647076177
Joint Vice Chair
Barbara Jenkinson Tel: 616264067
Joint Vice Chair Dorothy Girvan Tel: 676320615
MEMBERS
Elaine Edwards Tel: 647076177
Peter Girvan Tel: 676320615
Anne Dibden Tel: 605826358
Bethune McCarroll Tel: 634404169
Louis Pollitt Tel: 0044746367618
INFORMATION NEWSLETTER EDITOR newslettereditor2012@gmail.com WEBSITE - www.el-valle-asociacion.com A REPRESENTTIVE OF THE COMMITTEE WILL BE ON DUTY EVERY FRIDAY BETWEEN 11:30 AND 12:30 AT MESON SARA EXCEPT IN AUGUST