A VERY HOT AND SUNNY MANILVA ON MONDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEK;

MONDAY 25^th/ AUGUST 2014.

Up early this morning and after a quick breakfast I shot down to the underground car park and collected the car and then picked Den & Josie up to take them across to ‘La Lina De La Concepcion’ so as Den could catch his flight home from Gibraltar and Josie could go shopping at the same time, Den is back in work tomorrow morning and Josie is flying home a week on Tuesday, we are taking her to the new Bus Station in Estepona so I stopped this morning on the way back and jet washed the ‘Red Limousine’ so as its fit to take the ‘Queen of Skelton’ next week! See the pictures above, the last one taken by Josie, I must talk to her about ‘Composition’- the waste bin is not right!!

PS' The lamp post appeared in my picture of Gibraltar from no where!!

While I was out ‘Scruffy was picked up, he is back with us on Wednesday and Thursday and then on Sunday (possibley Saturday night!) – Little Princess ‘Reina’is here on Tuesday and Thursday so we have a busy week here at ‘Doggy Word Heaven’!

Yesterday lunchtime we had a surprise ‘Skype’ video call from Jack & Lyn over in Melbourne, it was to wish me “Happy Birthday” – the only problem was that it was the 24^th August when of course it should be the 24^th September! Before you ask I’m a very young 69 this year!!  It shows that the folks are thinking about me anyway – thanks! We then had a good catch up with all their extended family news.

The weather forecast for this week is looking very good with the temperatures hovering in the mid 30c! Every day I will be following the ‘Vuelta d Espana’ on ‘TVE 1’ – Yesterdays stage was from Algeciras to San Fernando outside Cadiz and today they leave Cadiz and go inland to Arcos De La Frontera.

Later this morning Mano is calling in to help with a little bank transaction which is rather complicated, we bank online in Spanish but sometimes we need help; later this evening he is picking Anna up from Malaga Airport as she has been back in England for a family funeral which turned into an extended stay.

Brenda has just shot around to the butchers and come back with a ‘Chicken Extravaganza!’ Livers for Tapas, Wings for Tapas or supper and ‘Escalope’ of Breast for tonight’s supper!! I will pan-fry them in foaming Lemon Butter with dry sautéed thick-cut sliced Baked Potatoes and finely sliced Green Beans, a little of my famous Tomato salsa on the side.

Last night after our steak supper we watched “Public Enemies” from 2009 in which Johnny Depp plays the notorious bank robber ‘John Dillinger’- the cop chasing him is played by Christian Bale and the love interest of Dillinger is played by Marion Cotillard.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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