A WARM & NOW SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY.

THURSDAY 4^th/ OCTOBER 2018.

We managed a nice long lie in this morning, as we overslept! The village is as usual very quiet, at this time of the year especially, no church bells, the children go off to school along the new ‘Calle Mar’ and there are no delivery trucks, due to the weight restrictions, our street which is now open one-way, down, from Monday to Friday, from ‘Calle Mar’ is not used that often!

After a quick freshen up Brenda took ‘ Chico’ for his first walk of the day, he’s settled in very well and has leaves his ‘messages’ twice-a-day near the same spots! ( Bagged etc!)  ‘ Chispa’ has been calling in to see all of us and joined us for a walk yesterday evening. Little princess ‘ Reina’ is back with us in ‘ Doggy World Heaven’ next week, for four days, from Monday, depending on no shift changes for Lee & Daniela.

See below a picture that Daniela took this morning, on her way into work in Gibraltar, it shows the “ Altocumulus Lenticularis – UFO cloud “ over the ‘Rock’ !

And an older one !

Meanwhile Lee is coming online, this evening, via a remote connection, to help me with some small technical problems with our online Banking details & Spotify, as well as, over the weekend calling in check the new ‘IPTV’ system, which is giving us some more problems also, watch this space.

We then had our regular light breakfast of ‘ Weetabix’ toast & tea, before getting ready tomorrows ‘ Mega- Shopping List’ ready  – when I will be back down in Sabinillas, on my travels, for the weekly shopping, calling into ‘Mercadona, the English Bookshop & Butchers, the local Flower Market & Super Sol’ ! Watch this space.

This morning has started a little grey & overcast, but by lunchtime, like yesterday, it’s due to brighten up, the sun will break through and the patchy clouds are due to clear as there is a light breeze blowing, hovering on the 24/25 desg+ mark, still warm for the time of the year, during the night down to 18/19 degs, just pleasant also, the rest of the week and over the weekend we are in for more of the same, at the start of next week we could have some of the ‘ wet-stuff’ but it will still be warm & sunny, in the mid 20s, the following week when the folks are here, down in sunny Manilva is looking, at the moment, dry, warm & settled, watch this space.

PS; This weekend we are calling Sandra & Bill, over in Everett, Ontario, Canada, on the ‘ Skype’ video, to finalize the details about the apartment down in Sabinillas and their flight details, over next weekend, when they are due to arrive back in sunny Manilva!!

See below some pictures of the ‘Puerto de la Duquesa Marina’ at its best, with the ‘holiday hoards’ gone!

Ar lunchtime we ended up at 'Bar Rojas' sat outside the very hot sunshine, for a nice cool drink, we met an English couple, John & Sharon Grainger, from Ipswich, who are staying at an apartment down on the coast, they have a small property up in old Casares, they have been coming down here for many years, we had a nice long chat with them, nice to meet you and we look forward to seeing you again.



No evening-off for the ‘Head Chef & Staff’ this week, so we are having the rest of the ‘ Chicken & Mushroom Tarragon Casserole’ with Garden Peas & twice-cooked ‘ Frits’ – Friday is going to be an ‘ Fish’n Chips Supper’- Saturday is our usual ‘ Steak Night’ and then Sunday we will be ‘ Roasting’ – watch this space, depending on the ‘ English Butcher’s’ !  

After supper we will be back on the ‘ Spanish TV ‘ Channels, finding something to watch.

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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