A VERY CRISP & SUNNY MANILVA ON FRIDAY AT THE START OF THE 'BANK HOLIDAY ' WEEKEND.

FRIDAY 26^th / FEBRUARY 2016.

After ‘Reina’ arrived for the last time this week we had our normal breakfast then after getting Brenda settled I shot out on my travels down to Sabinillas for the weekly shopping, I called into the bank for some cash and then stopped at the ‘English Bookshop’ for the local newspapers, next it was a small shop in Mercadona before calling into the ‘Wholesale’ Fruit & Vegetables Market, finally I called into ‘Super Sol’ for some English essentials.

At the moment the threatened rain has not hit us, its very crisp & sunny with a little breeze but still a fine day, the short drive back up through the vine fields was very pleasant, they are burning off last years branches as the prune right back the old ground vines, its still forecast for wet, cold and windy over the weekend, then on the ‘Bank Holiday Monday’ its going to be fine and sunny.

Its soup at lunchtime then for this evenings supper we are having ‘Grilled Fillets of Hake’ dusted in flour and finished with ‘Lemon Butter’- Broccoli Florets and some very nice Baby New Potatoes that I bought earlier, tomorrow its going to be ‘Entrecote Steak’ cut ‘French Style’ with fine Green Beans and ‘Frits’ – on Sunday we are having ‘Scouse’ as its ‘ Global Scouse Day’!!

We are of course having a very easy and relaxing weekend with no singing or dancing as the rest of the village goes mad on Sunday for the “ Dia de Andalucia “ Tomorrow we will watch various sports and then ‘Channel Hop’ for a good film, the same on Sunday but no doubt we will listen to all the singing, dancing and drinking along ‘Calle Mar’ - the two stages, that the Council workmen have just finished, will have bands after the formal ceremony at lunchtime, they have even washed down the street?! If it does rain we suppose that they will transfer down to the ‘Pabellon’


See below the famous " The Flying Scotsman " as it leaves London on its way to York yesterday on its inaugural journey after a multi million pound refit, the 'A3 Pacific 4-6-2' was designed by Sir Nigel Gresley and back in 1934 it broke the 100 mph barrier for the first time!

                                                                    " Full Steam Ahead "

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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