A VERY HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ON MONDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEK.

MONDAY 10^th/ JULY 2017.

I was up early this morning to welcome back little princess ‘ Reina’ for the day, she’s here with us in ‘ Doggy World Heaven’ for 4 days this week, she then went onto her duvet for a sleep, we then went back to bed to try and catch up with ours, we have had a long, sticky, sleepless night as it didn’t drop below 22 degs, we have all the fans on around the house but are only just managing to keep on top of things, it’s unusually hot for the time of the year, with August to follow!

After freshening up we had our usual breakfast of fresh fruit ( Banana ) toast & tea, we then sorted our week ahead out, we have no plans or appointments, on Thursday it’s the ‘ Chef’s night off so we are going along to ‘Bar Castillo’ for a light supper before going down to the ‘ Casa De Los Torres, the Cultural Centre, for the ‘ Flamenco Fusion Concert ‘ I will be out on my travels on Friday morning down to Sabinillas, on the bus, for the weekly shopping.

The sun was out, as you would expect, first thing this morning and the sky is bright blue, there is no breeze so it’s going to be another hot one, hovering on the 30 degs+ mark and for the rest of the week also, watch this space.

For supper this evening we are having the rest of the ‘Smoked Chicken & Three Green Bean Risotto’ – cold, with a nice Mixed Salad, the rest of the weeks menus are still TBC, one day at the time, last night we had a very enjoyable supper with Dean & Donna, catching up with their travels, they have lived and worked all over the World including New Zealand and in the USA, down in the deep South, we enjoyed their company and are looking forward to meeting up with them, again,  soon, Dean tells us, and Donna confirmed, that he’s a bit of a ‘dab hand’ in the kitchen, watch this space!

  

Just a quick update with the sports results; Chris Froome retained the ‘ Yellow’ jersey as the Colombian ‘Rigoberto Uran’ won an action packed stage nine of the ‘ Tour De France’ On the second climb of the day Geraint Thomas, Froome’s team mate and right-hand man crashed on the decent and broke his collarbone, then on the final decent of the day, the Australian rider, ‘ Richie Porter’ also crashed, at high speed on a very dangerous and wet/dry road and suffered a fractured collarbone and pelvis, he used to be Froome’s main team mate, this year he’s in another team and was one of the favourites to win the race. It’s a rest day today. The Austrian Grand Prix was rather boring, Lewis Hamilton was 4^th - today Wimbledon starts the second week, when it starts to get serious and exciting, watch this space.

Later we are going to catch up with last night’s episode of ‘Poldark ‘

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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