A RATHER WINDY & CRISP SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY;

THURSDAY 26^th/ NOVEMBER 2015.

I was up early and shot straight out down to the surgery for my appointment for my blood tests for my  annual Prostrate check up in early December; the sun was out and the sky is blue but overnight a stiff breeze has come along so it was cold as I walked down to the surgery, its staying dry for the rest of the week and over the weekend and next week is also looking settled, for now! It's still going to reach by lunchtime 23/25 degs!!

Brenda welcomed ‘Reina’ with us for the day, she was dropped off by Lee as Daniela is away on business in London for a week, Lee is joining us for supper next Tuesday, ‘Reina’ is with us for a sleep over on Saturday night as Lee is out ‘playing’ with the boys!

For our supper this evening we are having the rest of the ‘Casserole of Liver & Sausage’ with a fry-up of the leftover vegetables & potatoes. Tomorrow night I’m making my now famous ‘Seafood Risotto’ and on Saturday its ‘Steak Night’ – Sunday is the ‘Chefs’ day off as he’s out with his Assistant Chef for their 44^th Wedding Anniversary – watch this space

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Later I’m taking the car along to the local garage to get the new radio fitted.

See below a picture of the steam train 'Colwyn Bay' - now that's what you call a train !

This morning on Facebook there was some more pictures of Old Liverpool and the docks; this brought back some more  memories  of the times back in the 50s/60s when I used to go down to the docks with my dad on our bikes, he was an agent for the ‘Royal London Insurance Society’ at the time and some of his customers were the lock keepers who had cottages on the main dock. 

We used to go down to Bootle past ‘Walton Jail’ and along Strand Road and the Fire Station where my dad was a Fireman before and during the War, the entrance to the docks was under the old ‘Overhead Railway’ that was still running, you then saw to your left the ‘Gladstone Graving Dock’ which was at the time the largest dry dock in the World, 1050 feet long & 120 feet wide and was were all the transatlantic liners of the time came, I remember seeing the ‘Empress of Canada’ We then passed the largest floating crane in the World ‘The Mammoth’ which loaded amongst many things all the new steam trains going out to Africa, South America and the Far East weighing up to 200 tons! See the pictures above.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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