A WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON WEDNESDAY.

WEDNESDAY 30^th/ AUGUST 2017.

We had a little lie in this morning as ‘ Reina’ was not being dropped off until later, she has shot onto her duvet, ‘ Chispa’ has been in to see her and then Brenda took her for a short walk after breakfast ‘ Chispa not Reina’! Our gas-bottle delivery man called to exchange our bottle, you leave the old one outside the door and he calls in with the new one, that’s service with a smile!

I then made this evening supper, ready to go in the oven later “ Cottage Pie “ topped with Brenda’s famous ‘ Mashed Potato ‘ – with ‘ Peas a la Flamande ‘ ( Garden Peas & Baby Carrots Mixed ) & Cauliflower Florets.


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Over the past two days we have been very lucky with the weather, the worst has passed us by and each day by lunchtime it’s been back to normal, warm & sunny for the rest of the day, this morning the sun was out early and the sky is bright blue, it’s going to reach 26/27 degs later, then tomorrow and over the ‘ Vendimia Wine Festival’ weekend we are in for a nice warm spell hovering on the 28/29degs mark, next week is now warm and settled, watch this space.

See the picture taken last night of the stars over sunny Manilva on a half-moon night.

On the Blog the other day I was talking about my Dad, Tommy Sexton, and his time as a Fireman during the war, he was in Liverpool during the Blitz and then moved down to London and was based at ‘ Hampton Court Palace’ - on a ‘Facebook’ page about old Liverpool yesterday it showed some pictures of the Fire Stations, including the one in Bootle, you can see the ‘Turn-Table Ladder Engine’ on which my Dad was the ‘ ladder man’ – he was the lightest in the Station and in those days the ladder was raised by hand!  


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After the war my Dad was a Insurance Agent for the ‘Royal London’ and on special occasions used to take me on our bikes or sometimes in our Green Morris Van down to the docks, we went past the ‘Gladstone Graving Dry Dock’ were the trans-Atlantic liners of the time came to be repaired/painted etc. We went to the ‘Lock Keepers’ house’s so as he could collect their ‘ Divvies ‘ – we passed on the way all the main docks and the famous ‘Mammoth ‘ crane, capable of lifting 200 tons! 


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We entered at the Seaforth end, where the famous ‘Overhead Railway’ started. It was the first electric elevated railway in the World, the first to use automatic signalling with colour lights and had one of the first passenger escalators in a railway station!

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Passing the dock entrance to the old 'Queensway Mersey Tunnel'

The ' Mersey Docks & Harbour Boards '  " Shunter's " below!

I went on the trams also!

Today’s ‘ Stage 11’ of the ‘Vuelta a Espana 17 ‘ goes from the historic town of Lorca to Calar Alto over 189 kms with a summit finish, as you can see in the route map below, Chris Froome is still leading the race and you can expect his rivals to attack on today’s climb, watch this space.

Yesterday evening , Juan, the handyman finished the main upstairs bathroom, it looks brand new! This evening he’s staring on the work on the downstairs toilet, it’s going to take 2/3 days, watch this space.

At lunchtime we went up to ' Bar Rojas ' for a cool drink sat under the ' Sonbajo ' which the Mayor, Mario, confirmed  is being taken down when the work on 'Calle Mar ' starts later in September, it will all be finished in time for next years 'Semana Santa' I also ordered two ' Vendimia Hats ' with him!! When we came back we had a quick call on the ' Skype' video with Sandra over in Canada before she set off to work.

We are taking things easy today & tomorrow, on Friday I will be out on my travels down to Sabinillas for the weekly shopping, we will then prepare ourselves for the ‘Vendimia Wine Festival ‘ main celebrations on Saturday & Sunday, watch this space.

PS, The ' Movistar ' engineers have just installed the 'Fiber Optic' junction/connection box on our wall, one step more to connect us required! - ie: The cable from 'Calle Mar' to the box and then the cable from the box to our house!!  Watch this space.



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