A STILL WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY;

THURSDAY 21^st/ MAY 2015.

‘Reina’ arrived as usual early this morning and is here for the day and then this evening ‘Charlie’ is being dropped off for his holiday, he’s with us until a week on Saturday as Brian & Jan are going home to Liverpool to see their family and also the ‘Three Queens’ in the River Mersey at the Pier Head in front of the ‘Cunard Steamship’ building on the 175^th anniversary of the company.

                                                             They are on their way !!!  

The threatened rain yesterday did not arrive and we have the same forecast for today, at the moment there is still no sign of any of the wet stuff, its warm & sunny with just a little breeze, the forecast last night said that the wet front is very unprictable and could even be back with us on Sunday! In the meantime it’s still keeping warm with the temperatures hovering at around 21degs.No rain has arrived and in fact its now officially 'Hot' in sunny Manilva!

Its one of our quiet days at home doing nothing in particular, because we can! ‘Chispa’ has just arrived and is playing with her friend; we will take them out a little later for a walk, if it stays dry!

At the moment on the small PC as I’m typing the Blog on the large PC I’m listening ( loud!) to ‘Castle Radio FM 89.2’ top 40 chart show from April 1969! Great to hear all the old songs including Marvin Gaye’s “I heard it on the Grapevine” and at number 1 one of my/our favorite all time ‘Beatles’ tracks from the ‘Let it Be’ Album “ Get Back” with Billy Preston on the Hammond organ –recorded ‘live’! We have just had a little dance as well!!

We had a nice surprise this afternoon when the front door bell went, it was Mano,Anna,Sally Ann & Jenny who use to work for us back in the good old days of the 'Hotel Seventy Degrees' in Colwyn Bay;we had a really good catch up with all the news from North Wales as we toasted seeing her again, after a few years, with a nice bottle of 'Cava' Welcome to sunny Manilva Jenny! 

For our supper this evening we are having the rest of the ‘Beef Bourguignon’ which I have to say was rather special, the Beef from our local butcher was very tasty & succulent and the sauce was to die for! The whole dish was finished off by the ‘Heart’Crute prepared by the ‘Assistant Chef’ It brought back happy memories of the good old days – watch out for more ‘Classics’ in the not to distant future!

See the picture below of a classic ‘French Cheese Board’ very similar to the one that we had at the ‘Hotel Seventy Degrees’ We had a specially made Cheese Trolley and all the cheese was displayed on Straw Mats that kept the Cheese just right to serve!

We also found a good film to watch later on the ‘Paramount Film Channel’ – “ Night Time on Manhattan” from back in 1997 – about corruption in the ‘NYPD’ based on true facts and characters; it was filmed on the streets of New York and stars Andy Garcia, Richard Dreyfuss,Ian Holm, John Gandolfini & Lena Olin – catch it if you can!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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