A STILL VERY HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY;

THURSDAY 14^th/ MAY 2015.

I was up first thing this morning to see ‘Reina’ back with us for the day, she shot upstairs and ended up on her duvet across the foot of the bed and went back to sleep, she likes her beauty sleep, just like somebody else does!

Today is another glorious day here in sunny Manilva with the sun out from early and the sky blue, its going to be another hot one today, 37degs by the afternoon, it’s not like the heat in July & August which is dry and humid as there is a little breeze still about to make it rather pleasant and at night its not as hot as in the high summer when things can get rather sticky to say the least!

We had our usual breakfast and then sorted things out for the day ahead; Brenda is in a pottering mode finding things to do and meanwhile I’m up in the office on the WWW reading the newspapers, the Daily Mail (sorry Josie) the Daily Mirror (Josie?!) the Daily Post (Liverpool) the ‘El Pais’ (in English) then the BBC News & ‘Al Jazeera’ before checking the E-Mails & Facebook.

The workmen on the development have been erecting the steel towers at various points and later today some major wood shuttering as you can see in the pictures below,also this evening before they left a new load of metal shuttering arrived.

At lunchtime Mano & Anna called in for a chat and gossip'

Yesterday afternoon ‘Furniture World’ called to say that our new gas hob & extractor hood had arrived and that they would deliver them in half an hours time, which they did, now that’s service – a Result! Now we have to get our maintenance man to install them – watch this space!

At the moment we are having visits from all the parties as they chase our votes, so far it’s been the ‘PSOE’ ‘IU’ and ‘COMPROMISMO’ – no sign of the ‘PP’ or the ‘ASM’ as normal! I talk to them and tell them what we expect of them for Manilva especially and also what we want and at the same time what we don’t like!

The ‘IU’ prospectus is the only one, so far, that is in English as well as Spanish so they have stolen an advantage on the others, at this local election all the foreign residents get the vote if registered. The ‘COMPROMISMO’ party has made lots of promises and forecasts but it takes a little time to translate it all!

Last night after supper we channel hopped after I had been upstairs in the office watching the second leg semi-final of the ‘Champions League’ as Juventus knocked out Real Madrid and so play Barcelona in the final in Berlin in June; this means that ‘Los Blancos –Real Madrid’ could finish the season trophyless!

At the moment I follow on the ‘TDP’ Sports channel everyday their excellent coverage of the ‘Giro d’Italia’- yesterday in the first mountain stage the race favourite Alberto Contador took over the ‘Pink’ leaders jersey, today’ sixth stage is from ‘Montecatini Terme’ to Castigione Della Pescara’ over 183kms – the Giro ends in Milan on the 31^st May.

For this evenings supper we are having the rest of the of the ‘Chicken Casserole’ with twice-cooked ‘Chips’ and will then settle down to watch the news, spot and weather details.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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