A STILL WARM & SUNNY MANILVA, BUT VERY ' CRISP' DAY ON SATURDAY.

SATURDAY 25^th/ NOVEMBER 2017.

We started the day with a nice lie as the village is very quiet and all the barriers are up, closing ‘Calle Mar’ and our street, the locals will move them later, so as they can get about the village over the weekend. The Contractors’ are working very slowly, yesterday there was just three men with a new wheelbarrow, a shovel & brush, moving rubble from one side of the street to the other! At this rate they will still be here this time next year!! Watch this space.

Yesterday lunchtime we went along to ‘ Bar Castillo ‘ for a nice cool drink sat on the outside of the barriers in the warm sunshine, Juan had set up two tables/umbrellas in defiance! The problem next week is when the threatened ‘ wet stuff’ arrives, it will turn into a mud bath all along the street, watch this space.

As usual the morning has started bright & sunny, ‘crisp’ in the shade, by lunchtime it’s due to be around the 23/24 degs mark, then tomorrow the ‘ Atlantic’  front is due to come in, bringing with it cold & wet weather for all of next week, unseasonally dropping to below 10 degs during the night! Another duvet will be called for, watch this space.

See below a picture taken this morning, by a drone, showing the ‘Liver Buildings’ and the city of Liverpool, the white building on the left, shaped like the front of a liner, is the ‘ Atlantic Tower Hotel ‘ – the first of the new hotels, built back in the late 80s, I was up, twice, for  the ‘General Managers’ job, after leaving the ‘ Hotel Seventy Degrees’ – but sadly missed out, twice!!

For our supper this evening we are having a large ‘ Entrecote Steak ‘ – cooked on a very hot griddle-plate ‘ Med-Rare’ then left to rest before slicing it into ‘ fingers’  ‘French’ style, garnished with seared Asparagus Spears & Button Mushrooms, accompanied with a sauceboat of the classic ‘ Bearnaise’ sauce, with whole Green Beans and of course twice-cooked ‘ Chips’ on the side. On Sunday I’m preparing my now famous & special “ Lancashire Hotpot “ made to my own recipe, watch his space.

Last night over in Malaga the spectacular ‘ Christmas Lights ‘ in ‘Calle Larios’ - in the centre of the city, where turned on with a twice-nightly ‘Son et Lumiere’ show, we are going across on the ‘ Pensioners ‘ coach trip, the week after next. Watch this space.

See below a little ‘ taster’ of what we are going to see!

This weekend is another busy sports extravaganza; it’s the last ‘Grand Prix’ of the season in Abu Dhabi, the final weekend of the ‘ Autumn Internationals ‘ Rugby Union has Scotland v Australia, England v Samoa, Ireland v Argentina and the ‘ clash ‘ of the day, down in Cardiff, at the Millennium Stadium, as Wales welcome the ‘ All Blacks’ – over in Australia, at the ‘ Gabba’ in Brisbane, the first ‘ Ashes’ game is under way as England try to retain them! Also in Australia, next weekend it’s the Final of the ‘Rugby League World Cup’ when England play Australia!!

On the football front; over here in ‘La Liga’ Real Madrid welcome Malaga and the ‘ Match of the Day ‘ tomorrow is when Barcelona travel down the coast to play Valencia, who are second in ‘ La Liga’ at the moment,  over in the ‘ Premier’ League in the ‘UK’ the ‘ Match of the Day’ is when Chelsea travel up to ‘Anfield’ to play Liverpool, Everton have the long trip down to Southampton and then tomorrow Manchester City cross the ‘Pennines’ to play Huddersfield, finally over on ITV the ‘National Hunt Racing’ excellent coverage is from Haydock Park, between Liverpool & Manchester, next to the M6, & Ascot.

Last night we had a TV extravaganza as we caught various Quiz shows, then ‘Have I Got News for You & QI’ before the ‘ Graham Norton Show ‘ and then lastly ‘Would I Lie to You ‘

Thoughts for Day; See above.

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