A STILL CRISP & SUNNY MANILVA ON WEDNESDAY;

WEDNESDAY 1^st/ FEBRUARY 2017.

I was up early this morning to see ‘ Reina’ back with us for the day, we then all went back to bed for a nice lie in, after then freshening up we had our normal breakfast. It’s an at home day taking things easy, again, Brenda is pottering about and I’m up in the office/studio on the ‘WWW’

This morning started a little overcast but it’s now picked up, the sun has broken through, it’s a little cloudy but due to brighten up later, tomorrow looks like it’s going to be a little damp & overcast but its then going better over the weekend as the ‘ Atlantic’ front moves on up across Spain.

For our supper this evening we are having ‘ Seared ‘Dutch’ Calves Liver’ with crispy Smoked Bacon and a rich Onion Gravy on the side, I lightly dust the Liver in flour before searing it on a hot griddle plate, accompanied with fresh, local, Cabbage with Acelgas, Garden Peas & Parsley New Potatoes. Tomorrow evening we are going to have the rest of the ‘ Cottage Pie’ – on Friday its ‘ Fish Night’ and Saturday is ‘ Steak Night’ – Sunday is TBC. Watch this space.

Yesterday afternoon Man & Anna called in for a chat & gossip, their grandson, Fabio, was with them, it was his 11^th birthday, we found a candle and put it in a ‘ Mr Kipling’s Mince Pie’ – we then sang ‘ Feliz Cumpleaños’ before he ate the pie!

PS; The Grade 2 listed Pier in Colwyn Bay which was closed many years ago ( 1987!) - has been hit by storms overnight and part of it has collapsed into the sea, see below;

This coming Sunday there is a public vote in the village, The Mayor, our neighbour, Mario, and the Council have proposed that this year the Annual ‘Feria’ that takes place down in the valley below the village on the ‘ Rastro Ground’ - should revert to three separate ‘Ferias- Fairs ‘ on the ‘Saints Day’ for Castillo de la Duquesa, Manilva & Sabinillas, as in the past (last in 2005) - to benefit the local businesses( Bars!) in the three places! Watch this space.

After supper last night we settled down to watch the second part of the final episode of the 20^th series of ‘ Silent Witness on BBC TV; a massive roller coaster of emotion, very dramatic and nerve-fraying, the main character played by Emilia Fox, for many years it was the excellent Amanda Burton, was kidnapped at the end of Monday’s opening episode, she wound up being buried underground in a coffin, the hunt to find her before her oxygen ran out was very gripping and harrowing, she was betrayed by her friend( then shot dead) who was trying to save her own son from the ‘Mexican Cartel’ The leader was also shot dead!

The search for her was epic, she was able to identify the soil she was buried in over her mobile phone, she sacrificed herself to help her colleagues find the other missing hostages, including her ‘dead’ friend, then just when we thought that she was dead, at the very end, she managed to break out of the coffin and roll in the sea below where she was buried!! A 21^st series is promised.

Finally back to Liverpool nostalgia; see below some pictures of the captured ‘U-Boat 532’ being brought into the Gladstone Dock on the 18^th May 1945, my Dad, Tommy Sexton, was there on that day as the local ‘ Bootle Fire Station’- where he was stationed, was on stand-by!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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