A OVERCAST & DRY SUNNY MANILVA ON SUNDAY;

SUNDAY 21^ST / FEBRUARY 2016.

We had a nice long lie in this morning as the village is very quiet, no deliveries and no school children to disturb the peace. I then got breakfast ready for Brenda, this morning she had requested some fresh local Orange Juice with Toast, fresh fruit and Tea, she has her Black Grapes by her side with her other favourite Manderines, later I’m going to change the bed sheets, last night Jan dropped the washing ( Dark) off, all nicely dry & folded – that’s service! Next I’ve got the ‘White’ washing to catch up on, so I’m told!At the moment its overcast and dry with no breeze, we will see later how the day comes along before putting the washing machine on as I need drying time up on the roof!

At lunchtime the sun broke through but a stiff breeze also came along as you can see in the picture below of the beach down in Sabinillas.

For our supper this evening I’m going along later to the ‘Rotisserie’ in Calle Mar for ‘Roast Chicken’ Brenda is having some sliced Breast of Chicken with some whole Baby Green Beans, again. as she enjoyed them last night! For her lunch today its a small piece of cold ‘Salmon Mayonnaise’ with a little Salad on the side. We are also having a planning meeting to sort the menu’s out for the week ahead so as I can plan my local shopping, watch this space.

Next week ‘Reina’ is back with us, each day, from Monday to Friday before ‘Charlie’ arrives on Saturday for his weeks holiday, of course ‘ Chispa’ comes in and out every day to see her friends and us! Yesterday she came with her ‘Mum’ – Isobel – who is very old and does not usually ‘do’ stairs, she insisted on going up to see Brenda and stayed for a good chat, I then saw her down our very steep and deep stairs!

The responce to my ‘Facebook’ post has been over whelming to say the least, all the family in Australia, friends and old staff, neighbours and local in the village, including some we don’t even know! At lunchtime Sally Ann called in for a chat and offered any help,she's going to look for a small TV! Many thanks to all for the ‘get well soon’ messages which are a great ‘pick me up’ to Brenda – thanks. See below, for Brenda, if only!

Yesterday I managed to watch the Horse Racing on ‘Channel 4’ with 7 races from the 3 courses, all very exciting to the lead up to the Cheltenham Festival at the start of March; Everton won 0-2 in the ‘FA Cup’ game and over here Barcelona won 1-2 and no lead the ‘La Liga’ by six points! Real Madrid play later here at Malaga and then later this afternoon I will watch the ‘FA Cup’ match Chelsea welcome Manchester City. Chelsea won 5-1 and Real Madrid drew 1-1 when Ronaldo missed a penalty, so Barcelona ar now nine pints clear at the top!!

Last night after supper and getting Brenda settled I watched the late film “ Last Knights “ from 2015 – its a drama based on the legend of the forty-seven ‘Ronin’ – ‘Warriors’ with Morgan Freeman in it briefly at the start and Clive Own as the leader of the warriors.

PS; Sadly there was no ‘Carnival Parade’ along Calle Mar yesterday evening, the new Council and the Councillor responsible have stopped over fifty year of the tradition! Later this afternoon our local Councillor Mario and his wife Anna, our close neighbours, called in to see Brenda, he's no longer in power and said that its very sad that the new Council are changing things, also since they came into to power they have been very none-active and have not started any of their promised projects!! Watch this space.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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