A STILL VERY COLD & ' CRISP' SUNNY MANILVA ON TUESDAY.

TUESDAY 19/th DECEMBER 2017.

I was up early this morning to see little princess ‘ Reina’ back with us for the day, she shot into her duvet and we then all had a little lie in before getting the day on the go, after a quick freshen up we had our regular breakfast of toast & tea before getting this evenings supper ready, Lee & Daniela are joining us he’s going home for two weeks over Xmas, Daniela has to work and also has lots of ‘ gigs’ with her singing act, that’s why we have ‘ Reina’ on Xmas/New Years Eve and other dates over the festive period.


PS; Sadly the folks have had to cancel as something has cropped up at the last minute!

For our supper this evening I have just made my famous “ Chicken & Mushroom ‘ Tarragon’ Casserole “  which I’m topping with individual Puff Pastry Lids, - the ‘ Vegetable Chef ‘ has just prepared Broccoli & Cauliflower Florets in a Cheese sauce, Whole Baby Green Beans & Glazed Whole Baby Carrots, with Parsley New Potatoes, this evening I’m garnishing the Casserole with twice-cooked ‘ Stringfellows ‘ – to start we are having a small selection of light ‘Tapas’ and the dessert is Apple Sponge ‘Torte’ with Strawberries & Vanilla Ice Cream. A fine selection of cocktails, wines and liqueur’s will be offered!

Overnight the temperatures are still hovering on the 8/11 degs mark, the coldest spell we have had in many years, during the day its very cold & ‘ crisp’ with the sun just breaking through, there is a very light breeze so by lunchtime it’s reaching 17/18 degs, a little warmer by the weekend, next weeks ‘Xmas ‘ Weeks forecast is looking same but a little cloudy on some days and going cooler as the week goes on, watch this space.

See below some pictures taken around sunny Manilva over the past few days, the new ‘ Climbing Wall ‘ in the sports hall is now in action, the ‘ Andalucian’ Champion is a local man( neighbour) from Manilva, the new ‘ Swimming Pool’ down in Sabinillas is very busy & doing great business, the ‘ Iglesia Santa Ana’ Church, where the Carol Concert with the Manilva Brass Band takes place tomorrow night, is at night looking rather special, a new ‘Island Light House ’ display looks good down in Sabinillas, the new top viewing point/park is spectacular and finally the ‘Blue Anchor ‘ Island welcomes visitors!

Yesterday afternoon while I was waiting for the little problem on the car to be fixed, Pedro Snr, looked after me and it was soon ready to go, I called in to say ‘ Hello’ to Andrew Charles from ‘ Castle Radio FM’ as the new studio is in his house just opposite, he’s back ‘ Live – On Air’ with his ‘ eponymous’ Breakfast Show ( Monday to Friday) and the station is again broadcasting/available Online World Wide! Watch out as I could also be back with my ‘live’ show from my Studio here in the house in the New Year  - ‘Sir Malcolm’s Classic Saturday Session’  

On one side of Andrews house is Carlo’s house, he was in so I had a chat & catch up with him and our friend Andy, as it was both their days off, Carlos works at ‘La Taberna 2’ & Andy is the night manager at the ‘Manilva Green Aparthotel’ -  the next door neighbours, on the other side, our friends Pete & Barbara with their lovely family, who I also had a nice chat/catch up! It’s a small ‘ World’ when you are out & about in sunny Manilva!

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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