A VERY ' COLD & CRISP' SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY.

THURSDAY 10^th/ JANUARY 2019.

We managed a little lie in this morning, ‘ Charlie’ spent the night on ‘ Reina’s duvet and then had a lie in as he was late going to bed last night, as he had an attack, we had just gone to bed, as he had decided to stay downstairs on the main settee, where he was very settled, when we heard him moaning, he was starting one of his epileptic seizures, we shot back downstairs and gave him lots of ‘ hugs’ and comfort as the condition takes hold, he comes around slowly and is then back to his normal ‘ happy’ self, full of joy, energy & love!

I was on the ‘ WWW’ and had just had a ‘ Facebook Message ‘ from Sandra & Bill over in Everett, Ontario, Canada, to say the ‘ Christmas Cards’ had finally arrived in the post! “ GREAT NEWS “ 

Sandra had just arrived home after work ( 10 – 6 )) – it was 7-00 pm over in Canada, 1-00 am here, very wintery, snowing & blowing over in Canada, we then arranged a ‘ Skype’ video call this Sunday for our first catch-up of 2019!  Meanwhile over here yesterday afternoon it was the hottest spot in Spain, 22 degs+ at one time! ( Sorry!)

The ‘ Council’ have just announced that they are going to re-pave, improve access, improve the lighting and underground services etc, of ‘ Calle Iglesia- Church Street’ to the same standards as ‘ Calle Mar – Sea Street’ – this is very good news as the street is starting to break-up after temporary repairs, the bad news is that it will affect all the main parades/processions over the ‘ Semana Santa ‘ Easter period, coming up from the ‘ Iglesia Santa Ana Church’! Watch this space.

After freshening up Brenda took ‘ Charlie’ out for his first walk of the day, he’s back to his normal ‘ happy ‘ self, this afternoon he will have some company as ‘ Scruffy’ is joining us for the evening, as Adrian has an appointment at the ‘ Hospital, I was on the breakfast rota so we then had ‘ Toasted Crispy Smoked Bacon Butties’ – smothered in ‘HP’ Brown sauce – open on brown for Brenda, with mugs of hot tea, before getting the shopping list ready for tomorrow morning when I’m out on my travels down to Sabinillas.

As I said above, yesterday lunchtime we were the hottest spot in Spain, all over the rest of the county the ‘ cold-snap’ has brought very cold weather and snow, all over Europe, they have very cold weather with heavy snowfalls, the worst in living memory in some countries, our friend Andy was flying off on his months holiday to Thailand yesterday via Moscow! The sun broke through first thing this morning and the clouds have cleared as there is a light breeze, by lunchtime it will be only 17 degs+ - down to 9 degs during the night, over the next couple of days and the weekend it’s going a little colder as the breeze strengthens, next week is now looking a bit more settled, hovering in the mid ‘ teens’ but with the threat of the ‘ wet-stuff’ back in the air, watch this space.

For our supper this evening we are having the rest of the ‘ Chicken & Mushroom Curry ‘ with Basmati Rice and twice-cooked ‘ Chips’- Friday is going to a ‘ Fish n’ Chip Supper ‘ – on Saturday it’s a large ‘Grilled Rib of Beef’ with all the trimmings, then on Sunday, no roast, as we are having a ‘Fillet of Pork’- cut into ‘ Medallions’ – the rest used for ‘ Pork Schnitzels’ on Monday!

Last night after supper we watched the second part of ‘ Silent Witness’ – it was a surprise killer! Today we are taking things easy, later we will be out for our walks with ‘ Charlie & Scruffy’ – the village & all the Bars, along ‘ Calle Mar ‘ at the moment, are either very quiet or closed, then this evening we will channel-hop to find something to watch.

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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