A WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON SATURDAY;

SATURDAY 25^th/ APRIL 2015.

No lie in this morning as we had to be up to catch the gas bottle delivery man first thing; ‘Reina’ has slept inside her duvet for most of the night, she is not a problem during the night, she’s been out for her first walk of the day and is eating as normal, she is being picked up late this evening and will be back with us on Tuesday & Thursday as usual.

This morning the sun is out and the sky is clear, overnight it got a little windy, it’s bringing the rain tomorrow for the day but not as bad as forecast, the temperature today is going to be up to 25degs by the afternoon.

We had Campo Fried Egg & crispy Smoked Bacon with lots of toast and mugs of steaming tea for breakfast to set us up for the day ahead! Well that’s my excuse! I then made a fresh batch of my famous and now requested ( Mano & Anna) “ Ensaldilla Rusa” using diced cooked New Potatoes, chopped Parsley, Garden Peas, chopped Baby Carrots, diced Cooked Red Pimento, crushed Tuna in oil and chopped hard boiled Campo Eggs – all seasoned and then tossed in Mayonnaise – texture is the secret to my recipe!

Brenda is now shampooing her hair and getting herself ready to go out to the church later for the Christening of Peter & Barbara’s son Leo, all the pictures later. I’m getting ready after she has finished. 

We have just has a very long and ‘newsy’ E-Mail from our dear fried Joyce over in Chester so we will reply a little later.

No Motor Sport this weekend just some football to follow; over in the ‘Premiere League’ Liverpool travel down to the Midlands to play West Brom and Manchester City welcome Aston Villa up from the Midlands! Tomorrow Everton welcome Manchester Utd; over here in ‘La Liga’ it’s a ‘Derby’ game as Espanyol ( Mano’s team) welcome Barcelona and Real Madrid travel to Celta de Vigo on Sunday.

Well this afternoon I've been glued to the screen of my large PC watching the racing from 'Sandown Park' as the greatest jockey of all time AP McCoy rode his final two rides after over 16,000 rides,4,300 winners & over 1,000 falls ! He was given the 'Champions Jockey' trophy as he won it for the 20th consecutive time!! See the pictures below of him with the trainer Jonjo O'Neill & the owner JP McManus - at the end everybody was in tears including him,his famliy & friends and me!!

For our supper this evening we are having ‘Entrecote Steak’ cooked on a hot griddle ‘Rare’ with sautéed Baby Mushrooms & Shallots, finely sliced Green Beans and of course twice cooked ‘Frits’ and a sauceboat of Béarnaise sauce on the side.

We will the settle down to catch up with all the sports round up on the excellent ‘Cuatro’ channel; then it will be time to find a film to watch.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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