A VERY HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ,WITH A LIGHT BREEZE, ON THURSDAY.

THURSDAY 28^th/ JUNE 2018.

I was up first this morning to see little princess ‘ Reina’ back for the day, as usual, she shot upstairs onto her duvet, outside the office/studio door, she spends the morning there, then she comes down at lunchtime, on the various settee’s, as you can see in the picture below.

‘Paddy’ slept all night on the marble floor and then came on the bed this morning for his ‘ cuddles’ – before we all had a further lie in, after freshening up we took him out for his first walk of the day, down the shady side of the street, there was a very refreshing breeze blowing, making it very bearable, as it’s still very hot & sunny, when we returned we had our usual light breakfast of ‘ Weetabix’ toast & tea, before putting the shopping list together, ‘Paddy’ retired into his ‘ day-bed’ as you can see below.

As I said above, this morning we have yet another glorious day here in sunny Manilva, the sun was out early and the sky has cleared and is bright blue, as there is a very pleasing breeze blowing down from the mountains behind the village, by lunchtime it will still be 33 degs+ - tomorrow and over the weekend we are in for more of the same, next week is going to be a ‘ hot-one’ with very sunny weather, getting hotter each day, in the mid 30s+ - overnight hovering on the 20 degs mark! Watch this space.

Yesterday over in Estepona the local ‘Council’ & the very progressive Mayor, re-opened the ‘Market’ in the old part of the Town, below the Church, it was in the old days very poor, with just a few stalls and no selection, but now as you can see in the pictures below, it’s very smart & up to date, not as a ‘Wholesale/Retail Fruit, Vegetable, Meat & Fish Market’ but as a ‘ Gourmet’ destination spot!

This evening we are going out for our supper, we have given the ‘ Head Chef & the Staff’ the day off, it’s going to be a regular day-off during the very hot weather, the very small kitchen, despite the large extraction hood gets rather hot, to say the least, as ‘ Bar Castillo ‘ is closed for their holidays, we are going to ‘ Bar Rojas ‘ for a light ‘ Tapas’ supper, hopefully they will show the ‘England v Belgium’ game at the World Cup Football’ over in Russia, on their new outside, large-screen TV!

On Friday we are having our usual ‘ Fish Night’ with ‘Tail-End of Salmon’ on the menu, then on Saturday it will be our usual ‘Steak Night’ – Sunday is still TBC, possibly another ‘Roast Chicken ‘ from the local ‘ Rotisserie’ in Calle Mar, watch this space.

Meanwhile over in Everett, Ontario, Canada, this weekend the folks, Sandra & Bill will be celebrating “ Canada Day “ – the anniversary of July 1st 1867 when the Constitution was enacted, linking the three separate colonies together!

See below a picture of Jeff & Annette , outside Sandra’s house, on their visit/stop-over, a couple of weeks ago, on their way from Brisbane to Edmonton to see their daughter Kate, it’s a small World!

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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