THE COLDEST DAY IN SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY FOR MANY YEARS;

THURSDAY 19^th/ JANUARY 2017.

I was up first this morning to welcome ‘ Reina’ back for the day, she shot into her duvet and I climbed back under ours for a little lie in, after freshening up we had our regular breakfast, we then got the shopping list ready for tomorrow morning, I’m going down to Sabinillas for the weekly shopping. At lunchtime the ‘Jack Russell TJ ‘ is coming for an hour to check out that he and ‘ Reina’ are OK together, watch this space.

Overnight the rain arrived, by this morning its stopped but it’s very cold, the sky is clear and there is just a little breeze, it’s the coldest its ever been here in sunny Manilva for over 35 years, we were speaking to a local resident when we were at the surgery and he said that he had never seen snow in over 30 years, the rest of Spain is a lot colder with minus temperatures all over the country, the snowfalls are the worst in living memory.

Here on the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ all the mountains along the coast are covered in snow, it’s the first time for many young people that they have experienced the snow, the main mountain across the valley from the village ‘ Sierra Bermeja’ has the most snow cover that the locals have ever seen, the mountain behind Casares ‘Sierra Crestellna’ is fully covered, see the pictures below taken this morning.

For our supper this evening we are having the rest of the ‘Beef & Vegetable Stew’ – tomorrow evening it’s going to be ‘ Goujons of Hake Fillet’ and then on Saturday I’m going to cook one of our favourites, either ‘ Steak Diane or Steak au Poivre ‘ Watch this space.

It’s definitely a stay at home day today, the Oil Heater is on, all the doors and windows are draft proofed, Brenda’s special ‘ Chicken & Leek Soup for lunch.We are going to have a ‘ Quiz ‘ night this evening watching ‘Pointless, Eggheads ‘ etc before catching later the next episode of the excellent police crime drama series ‘Unforgotten’


NEWSFLASH;

Brenda's new ' Green Health Card ' has just arrived in the lunchtime post " RESULT "

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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