A CLEAR AND DRY SUNNY MANILVA ON MONDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEK;

MONDAY 24^th/ NOVEMBER 2014.

Overnight the rains came but by this morning the sky is blue, the sun it out and there is no breeze in sunny Manilva; the forecast for the week ahead is more of the same but a little cooler, it might dip below 20degs for the first time in over eight months but today its 22degs!

We have just had our usual breakfast and are having an at home day taking things easy.

We have a busy week ahead, after today, in ‘Doggy World Heaven’ as ‘Reina’ is with us on Tuesday and Thursday as ‘Charlie’ arrives tomorrow lunchtime for his short break until Saturday – ‘Scruffy’ is only here on Friday afternoon! ‘Chispa’ will no doubt be calling in to see them all as the week progresses. ‘Reina & Scruffy’ don’t need long walks but ‘Charlie’ does – he’s very particular about where and when he goes, he gets you up early in the morning by tapping you with his paw to let you know that he wants to out for his first walk of the day!!

At early lunchtime we went for a nice walk with 'Chispa' in by now hot sunshine, we sat on our 'Derby & Joan' bench on the 'Mirador' at the bottom of the village and took in the hot rays of the sun! On the way back we picked up some fresh 'Campo' Eggs from 'Toto's' and a warm stick of Bread from the local fruit & vegetable shop before stopping at the local bank for some cash.

On the menu front this week we are taking each day as it comes; this evening we are having the rest of the ‘Braised Steak’ with the leftover Vegetables & Potatoes, then tomorrow night its ‘Chicken Wings’ and Mixed Salad, on Wednesday its ‘Burger Night’ before a ‘Tortillia’ on Thursday – Friday will be ‘Fish Night’ and on Saturday we are out for dinner at one of our old favorite restaurants over in Guadalmina ‘Restaurante Victor’ for our 43^rd wedding anniversary!  - Sunday’s ‘Roast’ is TBC!

Last night after supper we started to watch the award winning “ Saving Private Ryan” from 1998 with its graphic and realistic opening sequence of 27 minutes depicting the assault on “ Omaha Beach ” on June 6^th 1944 – then a little later we found a rather different film to follow “ Random Hearts” from 1999 a romantic drama starring Harrison Ford and the very watch able and delectable Kirsten Scott Thomas!!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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