A VERY ' CRISP' & WARM SUNNY MANILVA ON FRIDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEKEND.

FRIDAY 24^th/ NOVEMBER 2017        “ BLACK FRIDAY “ !

I was up first thing this morning to see little princess ‘ Reina’ back with us for the day, she shot into her duvet and after a quick freshen up I walked down to catch the local bus down to Sabinillas ( Pensioners rate!) Brenda also got up and sorted her-self out for the day and weekend ahead!

I called into the ‘ English Bookshop’ first, for the local English newspapers before walking along to ‘ Mercadona’ for the main shop, the check out lady called a taxi for me, he was very helpful and brought me through the back streets up to the house to unload. After a quick toast & tea I went along to the local bank to pay the electricity bill, Brenda then popped out for some local shopping, ‘Chispa’ has already been in & out this morning.

It’s another glorious day here in sunny Manilva, with a bright blue sky, on the sunny side of the street it’s warm, in the shade ‘ crisp’ but there is no breeze, by lunchtime it will be 21 degs+ - tomorrow it’s going up to 24/25 degs before the ‘ Atlantic’ front comes across on Sunday making it a lot cooler, the threat of the wet stuff next week is still showing on the forecast,’ it could go down to 16/17 degs – overnight into single figures possibly 9 degs! Time for the Oil heaters to go on and when we are out we will need socks & trainers, not sandals! Watch this space.


See below a spectacular picture of the 'Barmouth Railway Bridge' across the 'River Mawddach' in North Wales, with  'Snowdonia' in the background.

The Council have just announced all the details for the first “ Saborea Manilva “ Wine and Food Gastronomic Festival taking place over the weekend of 8/9^th December on the ‘ Plaza de la Vendimia ‘ – with stalls, tastings, wine & cake baking contests, free ‘Caldereta & Paella’ music & dancing and the official turn-on of the Christmas lights & tree. ‘ Fingers’ crossed that it stays dry! See the poster below. Watch this space.

This evening for our supper we are having ‘ Grilled Fillets of Hake’ – dusted in seasoned flour and finished in a foaming ‘Lime & Parsley’ Butter salsa ( Meuniere style) with New potatoes & Garden Peas, on Saturday evening it’s going to be a large ‘Entrecote Steak’ cooked on a very hot griddle-plate ‘ Med-Rare’ – then left to rest before slicing it into fingers ‘ French style ‘ with, youv’e guessed, twice-cooked ‘ Pont Neuf ‘ Chips ( Door Steps!) etc. For our supper on Sunday I’m going to prepare my famous ‘ Lancashire Hotpot ‘ to my own special recipe, using ‘ New Zealand, South Island, Lamb’ – comfort food, as the weather goes cooler!

Last night after supper we settled down to watch the next episode of ‘ Love, Lies and Records ‘ on BBC TV 1 – packed with warmth, humour and emotional tension, I won’t give the story away, catch it if you can!

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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