A VERY SUNNY MANILVA ON MONDAY, " NEW YEARS DAY 2018 "

MONDAY 1^st/ JANUARY 2018.      “ NEW YEARS DAY 2018.

No lie in this morning after a very late night, our friend Andy joined us for our ‘New Years Eve’ celebrations, we had a few drinks and then at midnight here in Spain, as we were watching the ‘TVE 1’ programme from the main square in Madrid, we on the 12 chimes of midnight ate our 12 grapes, by tradition, before a nice glass/or two of chilled Cava.

We then turned over to ‘ BBC TV 2’ to catch ‘ Jools Annual Hootenanny ‘ and see in the New Year for a second time, with more Cava and drinks later, I turned over to ‘BBC TV 1’ to watch the spectacular fireworks display from The River Thames, in front of the London Eye, it was a ‘Son et Lumiere ‘ with the ‘ Bongs’ of Big Ben in the background, it was from three large barges on the river, 10,000 fireworks that took over 20 mins!

We then watched  ‘Jools’ with his guests, Ed Sheeran, Mavis Staple, George McCrea, Jose Feliciano, Ruby Turner, Beth Ditto & Jessie Ware and ‘ Trombone Shorty, The Beat, Soul 11 Soul and the Pipes & Drums of the Scots Guards ‘ ! The highlights were George McCrea singing ‘ Rock Your Baby ‘ and the voice of Mavis Staple!

We were not finished, as we saw Andy off home we heard loud music ( English ) coming from ‘Bar Rojas’ – it was a ‘ Helluva’ party with dancing, all our local Spanish neighbours were singing along, we joined them and had another drink to finish off the evening, coming down our street, feeling no pain, at 4-00 am this morning!!

   “ Welcome 2018 !! “

This morning little princess ‘ Reina’ was collected by Daniela, she is back tomorrow morning and then for the next three days, this evening ‘ Scruffy’ is here with us in ‘ Doggy World Heaven ‘ for the evening. ‘ Chispa ‘ has been in & out all the time over the New Year’s celebrations.

The sun was out early this morning and sky is bright blue, there is just a very light breeze so by lunchtime it will be 17/18degs+ - then for the next three days it’s going to be warmer, reaching 21/22 degs+ but on Friday, for 3/4 days the cold/wet front hits us, the temperatures are dropping to a very low, for us, 11/12 degs, overnight down to 5/6 degs?! Watch this space.

For supper this evening we are having ‘ Roast Topside Of English Beef ‘ ( cooked ‘Pink ‘ ) with Yorkshire Puddings and finger-licking Pan Gravy, accompanied with ‘Goose Fat Roast Potatoes ‘ – the ‘ Vegetable Chef ‘ is preparing whole Baby Carrots & Turnip Batons, Cabbage with Acelgas, Cauliflower & Broccoli Florets in a three Cheese sauce & Garden Peas.

At the moment we are watching and listening to the New Year’s Day Concert, live from the ‘ Golden Hall of Musikverein’ in Vienna, with the ‘Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra ‘ playing music by Strauss,  this afternoon we will catch the ‘ National Hunt Racing ‘ from Cheltenham & Musselburgh, later we find a film/ or two to watch, yesterday is was three old classic ‘ Cowboy’ movies with John Wayne, Burt Lancaster & Robert Redford!

Later this evening we are due to make a ‘ Skype’ video call to Sandra & Bill over in a very cold & snowy Everett, Ontario, Canada to wish them a very ‘ Healthy, Wealthy & Happy New Year’ for 2018.

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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