Sunday, December 08, 2019

Sunday 8 th December 2019..a full day!,

What a pleasant way to be woken up at 5 am with

fireworks, bombs and church 🔔 .....

‘‘Tis the start of the Christmas season and the Mexican people sure know how to celebrate!!,


I could not get back to sleep so got up and went through every drawer and cupboard and did some sorting out and also found some things and clothes to give away.


At 8am I sat with my tea and again watched my childhood soccer team, Sheffield United live from the city of Norwich....it was not a fantastic game but my team came away with a victory!!





Later in the afternoon I took Gracie’s dogs for a long walk In the neighbourhood and we came across this small block party!!





Wow I did not think my camera could take such good close up shots!!!





At 5pm I went into town and my my long time great friend Debra, she used to live here we were good friends and tennis partners and she is here on a quick visit, so she treated me to dinner at one of my favourite restaurants, Hecho en Mexico....it was really nice to see her and to catch up on her news.  She and her partner have just bought a home in Sarasota!!


Finally on my busy day I went to the SMA Playhouse for this concert...






As a lot of you know I am not a big fan of Christmas and the New Year but this was a really lovely concert and I enjoyed the very talented musicians .


I like this!!!


Very little has been said about this…..On December 2, Basque athlete Iván Fernández Anaya was competing in a cross-country race in Burlada, Navarre. He was running second, some distance behind race leader Abel Mutai - bronze medalist in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the London Olympics. As they entered the finishing straight, he saw the Kenyan runner - the certain winner of the race - mistakenly pull up about 10 meters before the finish, thinking he had already crossed the line.

Fernández Anaya quickly caught up with him, but instead of exploiting Mutai’s mistake to speed past and claim an unlikely victory, he stayed behind and, using gestures, guided the Kenyan to the line and let him cross first.




Ivan Fernandez Anaya, a Basque runner of 24 years who is considered an athlete with a big future (champion of Spain of 5,000 meters in promise category two years ago) said after the test:

“But even if they had told me that winning would have earned me a place in the Spanish team for the European championships, I wouldn’t have done it either. I also think that I have earned more of a name having done what I did than if I had won. And that is very important, because today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well.”

He said at the beginning: “unfortunately, very little has been said of the gesture. And it’s a shame. In my opinion, it would be nice to explain to children, so they do not think that sport is only what they see on TV: violent kicks in abundance, posh statements, fingers in the eyes of the enemy.


Now time for tea and my show!!


Yashi Kochi

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