A VERY WARM AND DUSTY MANILVA ON DEMOLITION WEDNESDAY;

WEDNESDAY 4^th/ MARCH 2015             “DEMOLITION DAY” HAS ARRIVED !

We were just about to turn over and have a little lie in this morning when we were awoken by the sound of a very large digger outside our bedroom window! When we looked we saw that it was a demolition digger come to knock down the two cottages next to our house in Calle Dominguez! One hour later they have vanished into rubble and the streets, surrounding houses and us are covered in dust! See the pictures above.

I’ve had the consultants, engineers and architects in the house to take pictures before they started, they will not give you any information/plans about the proposed development/ buildings, I could only find out that its going to be 4 x two-bed roomed apartments in a traditional style, it sound like Brenda’s roof terrace is going to be blocked off by the new buildings & roofs which are going to be higher! Watch this space as she is not a happy ‘Bunny’!!

                                                                 “GLOBAL SCOUSE WEEK”

So after breakfast I got going on tonight’s supper “Scouse” made to my dear mothers traditional “ Lobscouse” recipe with a couple of additions. I’m using diced Beef dusted in seasoned flour then browned off, next a use diced Potatoes, Onions,Carrots,Leeks,Turnips, Celery & Alselgas, all sweated off with good dash of ‘Lea & Perrins’ and local Tomato Frito along with lots of seasoning and the secret ingredients. The Beef is then added to the pot along with a good strong Beef & Vegetable stock and left to cook under the watchful eye of the Assistant Chef! See below;

The origin’s/history of Scouse come from back in the early 19^th century when sailors from Northern Europe and the Scandinavian countries were in the Port of Liverpool; ‘Lapskaus’ in Norway ‘Labs Kauss’ in Latvia and so on. There’s even a “ Lobsgaws” in North Wales! Various cuts of Beef and/or Lamb are used and of course lots of Potato to thicken and hide the lack of meat in the dish – “Blind Scouse” has no meat and was made by the very poor people!! Always served with Pickled Red Beetroot and crusty Bread, the aromas are wafting upstairs to the office and round the house, sadly not up our street, as normal. as we have the doors and windows closed!!

                                                                  " LOBSCOUSE " 

It doesn’t help that today is the hottest day so far this year and at the same time the water has gone off in the entire village so they are not able to dampen down the rubble as promised – ‘Dust City’ is here in a very sunny Manlilva!

Last night after supper we watched “ Enemy at the Gates ” from 2001 with Jude Law as ‘Vasily Zaytsev’ the legendariary sniper in World War 2 who took part in the defense and defeat of the Germans in the battle for Stalingrad in 1942/43 the story is fiction based on his records at the time, Bob Hoskins plays Khrushchev and Ed Harris the German sniper, Joseph Fiennes is a Russian Party member and the love interest is Rachel Weisz.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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