SUNNY AND STILL HOT MANILVA ON TUESDAY;

TUESDAY 12^th/ NOVEMBER 2013.

We had a little lie in this morning as we had no running around to do; after our tea, toast and fresh fruit we had a good morning in the kitchen getting things on the go with Brenda’s help, I first made a large pan of my now famous ‘Minestrone Soup’ with over 15 different vegetables and pulses, then I got ready tonight’s supper which Tom, the pro-golfer is joining us for; ‘Baked English-cut Pork Chops’ topped with glazed Apple slices, Carrot Batons with Ginger, Cabbage with Alselgas, Grilled Baby Mushrooms and a large dish of ‘Lyonnaise Potatoes’ with on the side a sauceboat of ‘Charcutiere sauce’  Some small Tapas to start and then for dessert ‘Crepes a la Maison’

Just after breakfast Tim called to let us know that sadly Wes can’t arrange cover for his business in time so will not be able to make it; this means that we will not have to arrange a hire car as we only now have Tim to pick up next Monday from the airport in Gibraltar. So we will have to look forward to welcoming Wes next year some time to sunny Manilva!

Last night on the weather forecast it started the show the weekend ahead, its not very good I’ am afraid, after checking on a local long range weather forecast web-site it confirmed that there is a large cold weather front coming down from the North Pole and crossing the UK and all of Europe before reaching Spain and then the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ by Saturday ! This means that the temperature’s are dropping by 6/10 degrees during the day, so here it will be 17/18 degs and of course colder at night! The sun will be still out but some of the wet stuff could his us by the end of next week and over the weekend! Sorry Tim – we have warned him to bring some jumpers,scarfs and gloves ! Brenda is also now getting the duvet out to put on Tim’s bed to keep him warm at night!!

We then went for a walk with dog around the lower part of the village and back across the new park as you can see in the pictures above; they have started to paint the concrete walls Grey?! - around the sign as we suggested to our local councilor Mario, yesterday afternoon the father of another local councilor Marcus painted the display barrels with signs showing the different grapes and type’s of wine that are produced here.

Last night film was “Pride & Glory” from 2008 – its about corruption in the ‘NYPD’ and stars Ed Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight,Noah Emmerich and Jennifer Ehle as a family all in the police force, some baddies and some goodies – watch it to find out who?!

Thought for the Day; See above.

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