HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ON MONDAY AT THE START OF ANOTHER WEEK;

MONDAY 28^th/APRIL 2014.

We were awoken this morning by the street cleaning machine as it went past our bedroom window; the sun is out and its going to be another hot one, yesterday it reached 29/30 degs and today the forecast is for 25/27 degs – more of the same all this week and into the weekend!

Yesterday evening as we were out for a walk with Scruffy we bumped into, not literally, a very nice lady with her young son, she was obviously pregnant and introduced her self as the nurse that looked after me in hospital back in the end of February when I had a nasty bowl infection; Gema Lopez was visiting her family in the village, she’s a local girl, born & bred and introduced herself to us as we didn’t recognize her out of uniform and with her hair down, she enquired after my heath and we had a nice chat, she’s expecting twin-girls!

We wish her all the very best and it was nice to see her again in different circumstances!

This morning our Pensions have arrived into out Spanish Bank account, this month they have gone up a small amount due to the increase from the English government and as it so happens the ‘Euro’ has also picked up a bit at the same time – result! Fingers crossed for Thursday when the transfer from our English bank account happens with some annuities payment that goes into the account monthly!

At lunchtime we went for our walk with Chispa around the village and ended up sat in the 'Plaza de la Vendimia' taking in the sights,our neighbours, the sounds,the water fall & fountain and the smells,coming from the house's along the top as we enjoyed the tranquillity of a very hot and sunny Manilva. See the pictures above of a 'Helluva' Blue sky!

Last night was the final evening in the ‘Manilva Cultural’ week taking place in the ‘Wine Centre Theater’ – so it was time for some small ‘Plays’ performed by the local including our neighbours Marta and her father! See the pictures above.

Late last night I watched the ‘Argentinean Motor GP’ in the early hours of Monday morning, due to the time difference, it was very exciting as Marc Marquez won after overtaking Lorenzo and his team mate Pedrosa also managed to get past to make it 1/2 for Honda and a Spanish1/2/3!

At the official ‘Weigh in’ this morning it was a good news and a bad news day; Brenda has finally lost a kilo but I have put on 2 kilo’s after my initial 3 kilo loss last week – I blame the potatoes last night! The menus for the week are planned, tonight we are having ‘Escalope of Pork Schnitzels; with ‘Spaghetti Milanaise’ – then on Tuesday its pan-fried Calves Liver with English Pork Sausages and Smoked Bacon before Wednesday’s Chicken, yet to be decided dish – Thursday is left over day and Friday fish!

After supper this evening we will catch up with all the news,sport and weather for the rest of the week before finding something to watch. Its another big week in football with two semi-final second-leg matches taking place, tomorrow its Bayern Munich v Real Madrid on TVE1 and then on Wednesday Chelsea v Atletico Madrid!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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