A VERY WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON SATURDAY.

SATURDAY 18^th/ AUGUST 2018.   

We had a nice long lie in this morning, the village was very quiet and the church bells didn’t start until later! After freshening up Brenda was on the breakfast rota, so we had her famous ‘ Campo Poached Eggs on Toast’ – Boiled for her, with Toast Fingers, and mugs of strong/hot tea, to set us up for the weekend!

I then popped along to the local Bank in ‘Calle Mar’ for some cash and on the way back called into the Chemists for a couple of my prescription tablets, ‘Chispa’ was waiting to welcome me back, she came running up our street, she’s in & out all the time looking for her friends, we are waiting to hear when little princess ‘ Reina’ is back with us next week, we also have a new dog coming to see us next week, he’s a 3 year-old miniature Pinscher, he could be with us in ‘ Doggy World Heaven’ for his holidays in September, watch this space.

The latest news on the ‘ Euro’ is not good, it’s at it’s lowest exchange rate, since we arrived her in Spain, all those years ago, very nearly 1 for 1?! Our Pension & Bank transfers each month are dropping all the time, with no sight of it creeping back up, at the moment, all due mainly to the on-going ‘Brexit’ negotiations, as well as ‘ Trumps’ text messages etc! We are now down nearly 33%!! Watch this space.

This morning the sun broke through earlier and the sky is clear and bright blue, there is a slight breeze so in the shade it’s still cooler, by lunchtime it will be 29 degs+ tomorrow is the same and then next week is now looking warm & sunny, hovering in the low 30s, partly cloudy at times and on one of the forecasts the ‘ wet-stuff’ is showing again?! Watch this space.

See below this morning’s ‘Moscatel’ grapes that have just been picked by our neighbour!

Brenda is washing/shampooing her hair in the downstairs bathroom, I’m up in the office/studio on the ‘WWW’ reading all the news, checking all the ‘ E-mails, Facebook messages etc, before typing/ posting today’s Blog.

On the sports front this weekend we have the return of the ‘ La Liga’ football over here in Spain as Barcelona welcome Alaves and tomorrow Real Madrid are at home to their neighbours Getafe; 

Meanwhile over in the ‘UK’ in the ‘Premier’ league Everton are at home to Southampton, on Sunday Manchester City welcome Huddersfield Town and then on Monday Liverpool travel down past the M1( on the train!) to play Crystal Palace.

For our supper this evening we are having a large ‘ Rib of Beef – on the bone’ grilled on a very hot griddle-plate ‘ Med-Rare’ and left to rest, before taking it off the bone and carving it into fingers ‘ French’ style, garnished with seared Asparagus Spears & Button Mushrooms, served with whole ‘ French’ Green Beans and of course some twice-cooked ‘ Chips’ – accompanied with the classic ‘ Bearnaise’ sauce & Dijon Mustard!

This evening after supper we will channel hop to find something to watch, later we will go for nice walk along the new ‘Calle Mar’ taking in the cooler night air, as well as the sights, sounds & aromas of the village, sitting on one of the new seats, with no cars or motorbikes roaring past!

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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