A VERY HOT AND SUNNY MANILVA ON SATURDAY;

SATURDAY 3Oth/ AUGUST 2014.

A little lie in this morning and then I came down to Brenda’s famous ‘Poached Eggs (Campo) on Toast for breakfast with a large mug of steaming tea! It’s all ready hot and tomorrow it’s getting much hotter over the next few days, fingers crossed for the ‘Vendimia Festival’ next weekend.

I’ve just had a message on Facebook from Jane to say that a new ‘Green Beans Slicer ‘is in the post! She brought the first one a few years ago but sadly this time she can’t make it over at the moment due to the pressure of business, David & Jane are also going on holiday this weekend to France – thanks Jane – the power of the written word/blog is alive and working!

We are having a nice quiet day taking things easy, trying to keep reasonable cool, catching up with chores, later showering and freshening up, at the moment I’m watching ‘Saturday Kitchen Live’ at the same time as I’m typing the Blog; later we will get our supper on the go ready for tonight, ‘Entrecote Steaks’ with sautéed Baby Mushrooms, finely sliced (the old one is still working just!) Green Beans! Twice-cooked ‘Frits’ and the usual toppings.

‘Scruffy’ is arriving for a sleep over before supper this evening.

We have now arranged the ‘Last Supper’ tomorrow for the final state visit of the ‘Queen of Skelton’ To start we are having ‘Asparagus Spears with Béarnaise sauce’ with ‘Smoked Salmon’ accompanied with either ‘Kir Royal’ or ‘Bucks Fizz’ made with Cava; the main course is ‘Medallions of Pork Fillet’ cooked on the griddle plate and garnished with Baby Mushrooms, with a large sauceboat of my famous ‘Charcutiere’ sauce on the side, from the vegetable department we are offering crushed Baby Carrots & Diamond cut Green Beans and I’m producing ‘Breton’ style potatoes made with Red, Green and Yellow Peppers.

For the dessert its simple local fresh fruit and coffee to finish.

This weekend on the sports front it’s the ‘British Motor GP’ from Silverstone and in the ‘Premiere League’ its Manchester City v Stoke,Everton v Chelsea and tomorrow Tottenham v Liverpool; over here in ‘La Liga’ its Villareal v Barcelona and Real Sociedad v Real Madrid while the ‘Vuelta’ is going from Bazea to Albacete.

Last night we watched the epic ‘Troy’ from 2004 with wait for it,Brad ( Mr Muscles!) Pitt, Eric Dona, Orlando Bloom,Diane Kruger, Saffron Burows, Sean Bean,Brian Cox,Peter O’Toole,Brendan Gleeson and Julie Christie!

PS; See the picture below of the dashboard of the ‘Red Limousine’ as it reached the classic “ 77777 ”kms as we went down to Sabinillas!!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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