A WARM & BREEZY SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY;

THURSDAY 28^th/ MAY 2015.

I was up rather sharp this morning and took ‘Charlie’ for his first walk of the day, I then grabbed a quick breakfast and shot out to pick the car up from the underground car park, on the way I posted a birthday card (who?) in our local Post Office; then down to Sabinillas for the the main shop in ‘Mercadona’ where I introduced myself to the new manager.

Before I went out ‘Reina’ arrived for the day and when I came back to the house to unload ‘Chispa’ came rushing up our street to welcome me back! All three dogs are at the moment causing a little chaos around the house, at lunchtime ‘Scruffy’ is due for a two day sleep over!! ‘Mayhem’ will no doubt follow!!

This evening for our supper we are having an ‘extravaganza’ ( three sorts) of ‘Sausages’ in a rich Red Wine ( Brenda's) Onion Gravy served on Brenda’s famous ‘Mashed Potato’ with crispy Smoked Back Bacon & Cabbage with Alselgas; tomorrow night for a treat our ‘Fish Supper’ is going to be a whole grilled ‘Dover Sole a la Meuniere’ which I  will fillet at the table, on Saturday evening its grilled ‘Entrecote Steak’ with all the trimmings and then on Sunday for a change we are having ‘Medallions of Pork Fillet’

No plans this weekend as we are busy in ‘Doggy World Heaven’ as ‘Reina’ is back with us on Friday for a 3/4 day sleep over which means that on Friday night we have three dogs ( two tonight!) sleeping with us! Watch this space, ‘Charlie’is being picked up on Saturday morning along with ‘Scruffy’ We will miss ‘Charlie’ in particular as he’s a real character and a pleasure to have with us, he is back over Christmas for his annual two week holiday!! Then next week ‘Reina’ is with us on Tuesday & Thursday as normal and of course  ‘Scruffy’ will be back no doubt sometime in the week TBC.

I have an early run to the Bus Station over in Marbella, on Saturday morning, to take our Swedish friend Lillemor as she is flying back home from the airport in Malaga, she called in yesterday lunchtime to confirm the details and so stopped for a bit of lunch.

This morning it’s still warm & sunny but a stiff breeze has come in from across the Medittarean and tomorrow its going to be a little wet as the breeze from the North East is bringing in a surprise wet front just here on the ‘Costa Del Sol’- the rest of Spain is warm & sunny?! Then it’s back to normal over the weekend and into next week.

The workmen on the site are as usual making loads of noise as they are now working on the ground floor construction, its taking shape very quickly as you can see in the pictures below,

No news on the political front at the moment, I bumped into our local Councilor, Mario this morning who is not a ‘happy chappie’ as he could be out of his job any moment now, also I spoke to the Mayor, Diego’s Father & Mother in ‘Mercadona’ with the same result; ‘Diego PSOE’ was in his vegetable shop and also confirmed that there is no news! In the Town Hall there is at present a meeting taking place – watch his space for an update from a very interested and eager reporter acting on your behalf ( Me!)

Over the weekend we will hopefully be able to get back up on the roof terrace for our ‘Happy Hour’ cocktails - weather & workmen permitting!

The pictures above are taken from the restaurant “ Panoramic 34” from the 34^th floor of the ‘West Tower’ over looking the Pier Head at night and Liverpool in the day time; on the left of the picture is the modern ‘Catholic Cathedral’ & on the far right the old Red Sandstone ‘Anglican Cathedral’ In the center is the ‘St.John’s Tower’ that over 50 years ago I arranged the ‘topping out’ ceremony for, at the request of the Mayor of Liverpool, when I was the manager of the old ‘Stork Hotel’ in Queens Square right opposite! Now not a lot of people know that – they do now!!

NEWSFLASH; " THE OLD BLIND SCHOOL" LIVERPOOL;

Yesterday afternoon the coverage on the ‘TDP’ sports channel of the ‘Giro d’Italia’ was spectacular to say the least, the helicopter pictures of the three lakes ‘Como,Maggiore & Lugano’ with the Alps in the background showed the region off at its best as the water shimmered in the hot sunshine and snow capped mountains glistened! Breathtaking!! Alberto Contador retained his leaders ‘Pink’ Jersey going into today’s stage.

We also had a nice E-Mail from our friends over in Llandudno, Douglas & Lyn, to say that the reason they could not come and see us last week, when they were staying here with friends, was that he caught a nasty food poisoning bug and in fact he’s still under the weather after getting back! We are looking forward to seeing them here again in the not to distant future.

The picture below shows the beach at ‘Harlech’ in North Wales earlier his week, in fact in North Wales at Porthmadog and on the Llyn peninsular by Nefyn, Abersoch & Aberdaron there are also some more spectacular beaches!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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