A VERY COLD & WINDY SUNNY MANILVA ON MONDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEK.

MONDAY 29^th/ JANUARY 2018.

I was up early this morning to welcome back little princess ‘ Reina’ for the day, she shot upstairs and joined us for a nice long lie in, she’s with us in ‘ Doggy World Heaven’ for four days this week, no doubt later ‘ Chispa’ will come crashing in to see her friend and us, we then showered and got the day and the week on the go, after our regular breakfast of ‘ Weetabix’ toast & tea Brenda is catching up with the chores and I’m up in the office/ studio on the ‘WWW’ catching up with the ‘E-Mail’s, Facebook’ messages etc – then reading the online newspapers and watching the news  from around the World before typing/posting the Blog.

Tomorrow morning we are going across to the ' Costa Del Sol Hospital ' past Marbellas as Brenda had a appointment with the ' Kidney ' consultant for her six-month check up/review, while we are at the Hospital we are going to the reception/admissions desk to try and re-arrange her two appointments with the ' Heart ' consultant that we missed before Xmas, when the car was off the road, watch this space.

It’s very cold & overcast this morning with strong winds, all our wall plants have been damaged, over in Gibraltar next to the offices where Lee & Daniela work the scaffolding on a large building next to theirs has just been blown down! We are in for a stormy day, It’s forecast to stay dry but then tomorrow the rain is back with us until Thursday, the overall temperatures are hovering on the 15/16 degs mark, then over the coming weekend we are back to normal, for the time of the year, with sunshine and clear skies, reaching 18 degs+ by Sunday, next week is carrying on warm & sunny before more of the cold & wet stuff returns, watch this space.

See below a picture of a stormy sky & the Mediterranean crashing onto the  beach down in Sabinillas yesterday in the early evening.

Sadly we were not able to make contact with Tim & Thea on the ‘ Skype’ video yesterday afternoon as they had problems charging their phones, we have arranged to make a call later today via the ‘ Facebook’ messenger video, so will then catch up with all the news and plans for Thea’s 60^th birthday celebrations tomorrow!

See below a picture taken this morning showing the newly updated promenade in Colwyn Bay looking towards the old classic Pier, awaiting it’s ‘ Fate’ later today!

We have also has a long ‘ Facebook ‘ message from Sandra & Bill over in Everett, Ontario, Canada, at the moment over there it’s mild & warm, a balmy 3c! The snow has cleared for now and there is lots of water in the low lying areas, they are bracing themselves for the return of Winter!! We have arranged to call them on the ‘ Skype’ video on Sunday.

We are also planning to make contact with Jack & Lyn over in Melbourne during the week to catch up with all their news, we will ring them to set up a ‘ Skype’ video chat, watch this space.

See below a spectacular view taken from the top of the ‘Roman Catholic’ Cathedral in Liverpool, looking along ‘ Hope Street’ to the ‘ Anglican ‘ Cathedral!

For our supper this evening we are having the rest of the ‘Roast Leg of New Zealand, South Island, Lamb’ cold, we love ‘ cold-cuts’ of roast meats, we will have a fry-up of the leftover vegetables with ‘ Boulangere’ Potatoes; tomorrow it’s going to ‘Pan-Seared Liver ‘ sliced very thin, dusted in seasoned flour, with Crispy Smoked Bacon etc. The rest of the weeks menu’s are still TBC, watch this space.

Last night after supper we settled down to watch the next episode of “ McMafia “ over on ‘BBC TV 1 ‘ – Betrayals, break-ups, blackmail and flying bullets as the global drama unfolded, ‘ PPO’ ( personal protection officer) for nearly all the family, a Russian hit squad landed at Heathrow, meanwhile in Prague one of the drug overlords betrayed our main character, at the end there was a surprise assassination target, not the mother of the family but the pregnant girlfriend of our ‘ hero’ – she was shot in the stomach, the lady assassin was shot dead by a bodyguard, watch this space.

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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