A VERY HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ON WEDNESDAY.

WEDNESDAY 11^th/ JULY 2018.   

We had a little lie in this morning after another very hot night, for all of us, ‘Prince Paddy & Chico’ stayed on the marble floor and then as usual ‘Paddy’ came up on the bed for the last hour or so. Tomorrow morning little princess ‘ Reina’ is back with us for the day, ‘ Chispa’ is crashing in and out all the time to see all her friends.

We then took ‘Paddy & Chico’ for their first walk of the day, down the shady side of the street, with a nice breeze blowing up towards the village, I carried on to the underground car park and went down to Sabinillas to the main ‘Medical Centre’ to drop off Brenda’s report from yesterday, to our Doctor, Natalia, at the same time I made an appointment, for this afternoon, to have my monthly ‘B12’ injection.

This evening we have a new dog coming to see us ‘ Maisie’ – hopefully she will be with us for a week’s holiday at the start of August, watch this space.

As we set off down ‘ Calle Mar ‘  this morning, the ‘ Council’ workmen from the ‘Gardens Department’ have started preparing all the square areas along the street to place the new flower/tree displays in, yesterday when we were returning from the Hospital we bumped into the Mayor, Mario, our neighbour, he confirmed that it would be happening today! He also said that everything would be finished in time for the Manilva ‘Feria’ at the end of the month, this weekend down in ‘ Castillo de la Duquesa’ it’s their ‘Feria’ – next month Sabinillas have their ‘ Feria’

As I said, this morning there is slight breeze blowing in from the Mediterranean, making it very pleasant in the shade, it’s still very hot in the sunshine, hovering on the 31 degs+ mark by lunchtime, at the same time it’s bring across the ‘ Sahara Heat Wave ‘ that by the weekend will make it a lot warmer, in the high 30s/low 40s, next week is going to be very hot & sunny, hovering in the mid 30s, overnight on the 21 degs+ mark, watch this space.

On the sports front today; this afternoon we will be watching the ‘Tennis’ from Wimbledon and ‘ Stage 5’ of the ‘Tour De France’- from Lorient to Quimper over 205 kms, an ‘ up & down’ day as you can see in the route map below.

This evening it’s the Second Semi-Final of the ‘World Cup Football ‘ over in Moscow, Russia, as Croatia play England for place in the Final on Sunday.

For our supper this evening the ‘ Head Chef’ has been given the night-off, as well as tomorrow evening with the ‘ Staff’ – we are having a light supper in front of the TV! On Thursday its’ going to be a light Tapas’ meal up in Calle Mar’ – on Friday it’s ‘Fish Night’ and on Saturday ‘ Steak Night’ – then on Sunday as it’s the ‘World Cup Football Final ‘ at 4-00 pm, we will have a late supper ( TBC ) - as we have arranged to call Sandra & Bill on the ‘ Skype’ video at 7-00 pm ( usually 6-00 pm!)

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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