A VERY HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ON FRIDAY AT THE START OF A ' HELLUVA' WEEKEND.

FRIDAY 2^nd JUNE 2017    “ NATIONAL FISH AND CHIP DAY “

I was up early this morning to see ‘ Reina’ back with us for the day, she’s being collected this evening by Daniela after she flies in from the ‘UK’- she’s back with us in ‘ Doggy Word Heaven’ for her normal five days from Monday ( Reina not Daniela!) ‘Chispa’ has been in & out all morning.

I then shot out on my travels down through the vine fields, growing more by the day, to Sabinillas, for the weekly shopping, I had a quick toast & tea in a local Bar ( Itzabar ) before the main shop in ‘ Mercadona’ – I then called into the ‘ English Bookshop ‘ for the local English newspapers, next I stopped at the ‘ Stationery Shop’ for some special glue to re-post the large wall map’s of Australia & Europe on the office/studio wall.

I then carried on to the local market at the far end of the promenade for the fresh flowers and wall plants, I then made my way back to ‘Puerto de la Duquesa’ to drop off the lounge curtains at the ‘ Dry Cleaners’ – it turned out that they can be washed, a lot cheaper!

Finally I stopped at the garage to top up the car with petrol, the garage man also checked the tyre pressure, oil & water, ready for our day out with our dear friend Joyce ‘ Baby’ up in ‘ Alhaurin el Grande’ tomorrow.

I then carried up back up the hill to the village to un-load back at the house, all the streets are full with cars, the local Police were out in force, giving out parking tickets and in some cases towing away, the underground car park closure is causing traffic chaos! I was lucky as our space in the small square next to the ‘Mayor’s’ house was not taken, it’s out of sight.

The sun was out early this morning and sky was clear & bright blue, there is no breeze so by the time I as was down in Sabinillas it was already very hot & sunny, the forecast for the weekend is for more of the same, reaching 31/32 degs, next week is also going to be very hot & sunny, hotter during the night, watch this space.

As you can see above it’s ‘ National Fish and Chip Day’ over in the ‘UK’ so for our supper this evening we are having ‘Fillets of Hake in Cruzcampo Batter ‘ with Mushy Peas and twice-cooked ‘ Chips’ –  Homemade ‘Tartar’ sauce on the side with lots of Lemon Wedges.

We are having our ‘ Steak’ night on Sunday, I bought two very nice ‘ Fillet ‘ steaks this morning, next week’s ‘ Summer Menu’s’ will be planned on Monday.

At lunchtime we went up to ' Bar Castillo ' for a nice cool drink & some light 'Tapas' - sat in the hot sunshine as a little breeze made it very pleasant, Brenda had chilled fresh Gambas & I had my favourite ' Tortillitas de Camarones- Shrimp Fritter & Albondigas - Meatballs'


No sight or sound of the ‘ Moffatt’s’ – Tim & Thea, since their return to North Wales, Old Colwyn, we did speak to Tim on the ‘Skype’ video just after but no more sightings since then! We have sent Birthday cards to Ben and then Jo, who was due home for her teaching job in Madrid for a friend’s wedding, watch this space.

Yesterday afternoon we managed to get the main lounge and the house back to nearly normal, it was very hot and by the time we had finished we were ‘ Knackered ‘

After supper we settled down to watch the second episode on ‘BBC TV 2’ of the three-part series ‘ Paula’ – the police are determined to believe that the killing was suicide, Paula alcoholic brother was burned very badly in a fire, the killer is on the run, he can’t cope with the two warring women he lives with, the Detective ends up sleeping with ‘ Paula’ – then in a surprise ending she was attacked by the hooded killer and the Detective was badly beaten up as he tried to arrest him!

NB; No Blog tomorrow, watch out for all the news & pictures, on Sunday, from our travels up in ‘ Alhaurin el Grande’

Thought for the Day; See above.

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