WARM AND SUNNY MANILVA AT THE START OF THE WEEK;

MONDAY 24th/ MARCH 2014.

 I took Scruffy out for his first walk of the day after the sun came in through the shutters, it’s another glorious day here in sunny Manilva; after breakfast we watched for a short while on TVE1 the pre-funeral ceremonies for the Ex- President Adolfo Suarez who died yesterday, the King & Queen paid the respects to his family as well as all the government in the parliament building, he was the founding father of the democracy here in Spain when Franco handed over the reigns to the King and even managed to stop the attempted civil war – he was very popular in the country.

Scruffy was picked up later in the morning but he’s back with us tomorrow for another two days! We are missing him already, we then shot out in the car after Chispa came crashing in, she loves the car and stands on Brenda’s knees and puts her head out of the open window; we went down to the bank in Sabinillas then went along to ‘ El Castillo Duquesa’ to pay for our trip out on Saturday; we then came back to Sabinillas and went for a walk along the promenade and had a nice coffee and pastry in’Miel’( the best coffee!) See the pictures above. We then doubled back to ‘Puerto de la Duquesa’ and picked up some Lamb Chump Chops from the English butchers.

As we were coming out of the car park in the village we bumped into our friend Barbara who asked us to her 40^th birthday celebration on Saturday evening at her house, so we are going to call in later after we get back from our day out!

The menus for our week are starting to take shape; tonight we are having Cold Chicken with a fry-up of the leftover vegetables and potatoes, then tomorrow I will pick up something from our butchers in the village ( Calves Liver?) For our mid-week production I’ am going to make ‘Lancashire Hot Pot’- hence the Lamb Chump Chops this morning which I will use with some Spanish Lamb Cutlets! Thursday is find something in the fridge day and on Friday we will pick up some fresh fish from the market.

Last night, well early this morning actually Marc Marquez won the opening ‘MotoGP’ in Qatar under the floodlights after a thrilling battle with Valentino Rossi despite riding with a broken leg! He twice regained the lead on the final lap!! This week on Tuesday evening over in England in the ‘Premiere League’ it’s the derby game between Manchester Utd and Manchester City!!

After supper this evening we will catch up with all the news, sport and weather forecast’s before channel hopping.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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