A VERY ' CRISP ' & OVERCAST SUNNY MANILVA ON MONDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEK.

MONDAY 27^th/ NOVEMBER 2017.

We had a little in this morning before getting another week on the go down here on the ‘ Costa Del Sol ‘ in sunny Manilva! After freshening up we had our usual ‘Weetabix’ toast & tea, we then wrapped up and walked down/up to the garage to see about the car, Pedro was not there and I could not get him on the phone, so it’s back to ‘ Plan B ‘ – wait and see! Watch this space.

PS; He's just called in with the estimate of the new engine/work, we are thinking about it after we get over the ' shock'!

When we came back to the house we then carried on along to the Chemists for some prescription tablets and I went to the local cash machine at the bank and then called into the ‘ Tabac ‘ to put some money on Brenda’s mobile phone. The Contractors’ have started this morning, at the top of ‘ Calle Mar ‘- they are digging up the street with a very large ‘JCB’ – making a lot of noise & dust! It looks like they are moving down the street towards our end, all the fences are up keeping us locals to the side on the pavements, the first problem will be later this week when the rain hits us, it’s going to be a mud bath, watch this space.

The forecast for the coming week is not looking good, today it's very 'crisp' and sun is only just breaking through after a cold & overcast start, from tomorrow it’s going to be wet, with heavy rain on Wednesday & Thursday, then for the rest of the week and over the weekend the sun is back although still keeping cool, for the time of the year, hovering on the 15/17 degs mark during the day and 8/9 degs during the night, the heavy duvet is going on, next week is now looking a little warmer & sunny with no sign of any of the wet stuff, so far, watch this space.

In ‘ Doggy World Heaven ‘ little princess ‘Reina’ is back with us on Tuesday & Friday this week, over the weekend ‘ Chispa’ had been in & out all the time, next week ‘ Chico’ is back for a week’s holiday from Wednesday.

It’s our 46^th wedding anniversary on Wednesday but as we don’t have the car we are going to celebrate next week when we go on the pensioners coach trip to Malaga to see the ‘Xmas’ lights, we will have a nice supper, in a restaurant after watching the lights turned on.

For our supper this evening I have re-made/topped up the ‘ Lancashire Hotpot ‘ with the rest of the ‘Lamb Chops’ etc, the menu’s for the rest of week are yet to be agreed/decided, watch this space.

PS; We have just had a meeting as Brenda was ' proof-reading' the Blog! On Tuesday it's going to be ' Medallions of Pork Fillet and on Wednesday a ' Beef Curry ' !!  

Just a quick update on all the sports results; Australia won the first Test Match in Brisbane, but lost against Scotland in the Rugby 53-24, England won, Ireland won but Wales lost to the ‘All Blacks’ – Lewis Hamilton was second, behind his team mate in the Abu Dhabi ‘Grand Prix’ – Liverpool drew with Chelsea 1-1,Manchester City won again 1-2 but Everton where beaten, again 4-1, over here Real Madrid won 3-2 and Barcelona were ‘ robbed’ in a 1-1 drew at Valencia when a Messi goal was not given after clearly crossing the goal line!

This week we are taking things very easy, staying in as much as possible, Brenda was going down to the local bus tomorrow morning for some extra shopping in Sabinillas, weather permitting and I will be out on my travels on Friday for the weekly shopping, it looks like we be watching a lot of TV on our multi-channel system, watch this space.

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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