A VERY HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ON SATURDAY'

SATURDAY 27^th/JUNE 2015.

Just a little roll over this morning before we both took ‘Scruffy’ out for his first walk of the day; it was all ready hot, in fact the minimum temperatures over night was 23degs, today its going to be a very hot one in sunny Manilva as the front comes up from North Africa cross the whole of Spain; it looks like next week we are going to have more of the same - July & August are just around the corner!

After our breakfast of ‘Campo’ Poached Eggs on Toast with a mug of steaming tea we planned our day ahead, Rose picked ‘Scruffy’ up – as usual he’s a joy to have with us, he slept all night under the bed on the marble floor- the best place to be! We will see him again soon hopefully as Rose settles into her new life of no work and all play!

We have started to put the ‘word’ out that we can look after another dog; we don’t advertise it’s just by the word of mouth though friends. ‘Charlie’ is booked in with us for two weeks over Xmas again this year; he calls into to see us when he’s passing with Brian. Not forgetting little ‘Chispa’ who is in & out everyday, for now, as she is due to go on her holidays with all the family as the go to their Campo up in the hills for a couple of months. ‘Reina’ is with us next week as normal on Tuesday & Thursday. Watch this space.

We are taking thing things easy today just pottering about the house keeping as cool as possible, we have all the fans on as we move about the house, in the kitchen there is a small one as we prepare our meals, in the main lounge we have a large executive fan for when we are eating at the dining table (old fashioned) and sitting on the settee watching the TV – then in my office I have a small one behind my back when I’m upstairs; in the bedroom we have a special stack fan which we use during the night.

We do have air conditioning but we don’t use it as it’s hard to get used too and also very expensive to use! One of our things is that we do have the windows open and the doors on all of the four ‘Juliet’ balconies all the time to let in as much air a possible, as well as the shutters up to let in some light – very un-Spanish as all our neighbors and the village in general are shuttered and closed up!

At the moment we are lost without ‘Bar Rojas’ – we are so used to popping up for a cool drink and a chat sat under the ‘Sonbajo’ taking in the sights & sounds of the village, its where we also meet people as they pass and our friends know where we are at certain times! What will we do for our Sunday ‘Paella’ and more importantly where will be our new ‘second’ home?! We are waiting to see what happens next week as Lumy has suggested  that after they finish giving the place a deep clean one of her family, that we don’t know, is taking it over, watch his space!

This evening for our supper we are having ‘Minute Steak’ – ‘Entrecote’ grilled on a very hot griddle plate ‘Pink’ with finely sliced Green Beans and some sautéed Baby Mushrooms with a dry Baked Potato and a little Mixed salad on the side.

 BUT NO 'FRITS !   

We are eating a little earlier than normal as we are due to pick up Den from the bus station, later, either in Marbella or Estepona depending on what time his flight arrives at the airport in Malaga! Josie is ringing us when she hears and we will collect her on the way.

                                                                           Re- united !!

Last night after our supper we found a good film to watch “Déjà Vu” from 2006 with the excellent Denzel Washington in the main role with the as usual ‘wooden’ Val Kilmer along with Paula Patton and Jim Caviezel as the baddie! It all takes place in New Orleans and is about a terrorist bomb plot with lot of twists and ‘time travel’ back into the past – honest!

PS' We will be back upon our roof terrace later for our 'Happy Hour' as the workmen did nor finish in fact they had delivered all the ceiling/floor joists which took time to get up the top floor!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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