WARM AND SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY;

THURSDAY 27^th/ FEBRUARY 2014.

No rush to get up this morning so after our tea and toast we went down to Sabinillas for the weekend shopping, the weather today is better than ever with a clear blue sky and warm sunshine as the breeze has dropped – jackets not needed! It was a large shop at ‘Mercadona’ then a quick call into the bank and paper shop before we called into the garage to top up and give the car its first wash of the year! After unpacking I went around to the butchers for our Saturday night ‘Steak’

Andy called in at lunchtime with Maria so he has helped me book on-line an appointment at the Traffic Department office in La Linea for a week on Tuesday to finally collect my Spanish Driving License after handing over my English one!

Just a quiet day at home today taking things easy and catching up around the house and upstairs in the office on the WWW. Tomorrow it’s a bank holiday here in sunny Manilva for the ‘Dia de Andalucia’ and more importantly for all good ‘Liverpudlians’ it’s “Global Scouse Day”!!

I was brought up on the tradition of Scouse and taught by my mother at an early age to make it, she used to deliver a bowl of it to the ‘Stork Hotel’ in Queen square and leave it with the Head Hall Porter for me to collect if I was busy! I still have her bowl to this day and we use it to serve potatoes and vegetables in it for our guest’s – tonight it has the Cabbage with Acelgas in it to have with more of the delicious ‘Braised Steak and Onions’ – day two!

Last night we watched for a while as it was on for nearly five hours the “ Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife ” – the capital of the ‘Canary Islands’ This is when the indoor part of the festivities takes place with a very large and lavious floor show and the special ‘Tableau’s’ that are on wheels and form the costumes of  the various candidates trying to become the “ Queen of the Carnival” Each year they are more elaborate and there is a theme,2014 its ‘The Cartoons’!

Before catching the Carnival we caught up with all the sports news, in an unbelievable game in the ‘Champions League’ Real Madrid beat ‘FCSchalke 04’(?!) 1-6 in the first leg with Bales,Ronaldo and Benzema all scoring two goals!  Meanwhile over in Turkey Chelsea could only draw 1-1 with Galatasary

Thought for the Day; See above.

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