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

MONDAY 29^th/ SEPTEMBER 2014. 

No lie in this morning as I had things to do and places to go! After a quick breakfast I shot along to the chemists for my precriptions, only one problem they are out of date! So I’ve made an appointment at the surgery to update them ASAP.

Next I went around to the Santa Ana Church as today its the ‘Patron Saint of Police’ day and there was a Mass followed by a glass of wine in the Wine Centre and lunch to follow at the Manilva Green Apart hotel, Antonia the Mayor very kindly asked us to join them. I gratefully declined as Brenda is still not able to walk so far at the moment.

All the local Chiefs of Police, the National Police and the Guardia Civil from all the local villages and towns were there in their full dress uniforms as well as the Mayor and Civic dignitaries, See the pictures above.

Today it’s very close and a little overcast but the forecast for the rest of the week is good with no rain, yesterday it went very hot and sunny in the afternoon but just along the coast in Mijas Playa they had severe floods!

Meanwhile back at the house Brenda was getting on with the cleaning, polishing, washing, drying and ironing, no rest for the wicked – she says she gets on with it better when I’m not around! Before I went out we had our Menu planning meeting for the week ahead.

Tonight we are having ‘Minute Entrecote Steak’ with twice-cooked Frits and topped with fried Campo Eggs, then tomorrow its going to be ‘Escallop of Chicken Breast’ pan-fried in foaming Lemon Butter with finely sliced Green Beans and thick-cut sautéed Baked Potato, Wednesday its time for the classic dish of the week “ Lancashire Hot Pot ” Omelet of choice on Thursday and fish on Friday followed by Saturday ‘Steak Night’ and a ‘Roast’ on Sunday (TBC!)

Just a quick update on the sports front, Europe beat the USA in the Ryder Cup 16 – 11( I can not find halves!) and at the ‘World Championship Road Race’ the Elite Men’s race was won by the Polish rider Kwiatkowski, when he slipped the two main contenders on the final climb, Gerrans and Valverde were not paying attention, and he raced down the wet and dangerous decent in the town!

In the late afternoon we watched a film with Richard Gere,Julia Ormond and Sean Connery “ First Knight” from 1995 – i.e. Lancelot,Guinevere and King Arthur!!  Then later after supper it was “ Fast and Furious 5”  with all the action taking place in Rio De Janeiro with Vin Diesel,Paul Walker,Dwayne Johnson( The Rock!) Jordan Brensa and Elsa Patsky – we haven’t see ‘1-4’ but the all action car chases are unbeavlable to say the least!!

Thoughts for Day; See above.

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