A WARM & SUNNY START TO THE WEEK IN SUNNY MANILVA WITH A SLIGHT COOLING BREEZE.

MONDAY 30^th / JULY 2018.

                                 

                                         

We all had a nice night’s sleep after all the excitement of the final day of the ‘ Feria’ – ‘Prince Paddy’ spent the night on the floor and ‘ Lex’ was on her blanket with her cushion, this morning after a very quick freshen up we took them for their first walk of the day down to the ‘ Mirador’ in a cooling breeze, that started yesterday evening, when we returned our first job was to cut-off the ‘Cone’ from around ‘Lex’s’ head – she was very good girl and is now a lot happier! Tomorrow morning little princess ‘ Reina’ is back with us just for the day, over the weekend ‘ Chispa’ has not been let out, no doubt we will see her later.


NB; We are not looking forward to Thursday as 'Prince Paddy' is due to be collected by Eileen, to say that we are going to miss him, is an understatement, to say the least, we love him, he's real character and such good company, we love cuddling him and the love he gives back, he's a real little ' Star '! " Thank's" Eileen for letting us look after him, here in ' Doggy World Heaven '

The’ Council’ have cleared & cleaned ‘ Calle Mar’ and the ‘Fairground’ people and food stalls have all packed up overnight, and left! We have the village back to ourselves for now, as on Saturday it’s the “ Noche Del Embrujo “ Festival – a evening of enchanted lights, music, singing & dancing.

See below;

Overnight the breeze blowing down from the mountains behind the village was quite strong, so it was not so hot & sultry, hence us all getting a slightly better night’s sleep, by lunchtime today it’s due to reach 32 degs+ - tomorrow is the same and then the rest of the week is going a little cooler, staying in the high 20s+ - with patchy clouds at times, the threat of the ‘ wet-stuff’ has been blown away! Next week is looking more settled, hot & very sunny, back in the mid 30s. Watch this space.

Yesterday afternoon/evening/overnight there was lots of ‘wild fires’ in the area, not helped by the strong winds,  causing evacuations, power losses, damage to local properties etc, in various urbanization’s along the coast, see below a small section of the local ones!

'Marlow's Fish n' Chip Shop ' on the left!

And the aftermath - that was close!

On the sports front; Lewis Hamilton won the ‘ Hungarian Grand Prix ‘ and Geraint Thomas won the “ Tour De France “ – the first ‘ Welshman’!!

For our supper this evening we are having ‘ Grilled Gammon Steaks’ garnished with seared Buttons Mushrooms & topped with seared Pineapple Rings and ‘Campo Fried Eggs!  - with finely sliced Green Beans & Garden Peas and of course twice-cooked ‘ Chips’!

Last night after supper we watched the final episode of “ Poldark’ as he was left devastated by the death, after childbirth, of his one true love, Elizabeth ( RIP) – George, her husband, the bad guy, was also very upset! The ‘ Good Doctor’ got back with his posh wife, Demelza got closer to her husband, Ross, again, and at the end Morwenna married her one true love, it will return later in the year!!

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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