WEDNESDAY 16th/ JANUARY 2019.
We managed another little lie in this
morning, as usual, the village is very quiet, even more so first thing in the
morning, we then freshened up and grabbed a quick fresh fruit, toast & tea
to get us on the way.’ Chispa’ has been in & out all ready to see us, sadly
with none of her friends here with us in ‘ Doggy World Heaven’ – for now! Watch
this space.
I then set too and got the evenings
supper on the go, with the help of the ‘ Second/Vegetables Chef’ – she peels
& prepares all the vegetables – as we are having my famous “ Beef &
Vegetables Stew with Savoury Herb Dumplings “ – the diced Beef, from our local
Butchers, is dusted in seasoned flour and browned off in a hot frying pan, I
diced the Onions, Garlic, Carrots, Turnips, Leeks, Celery & Green Beans,
& Mushrooms, all then sweated off, adding a good dash of ‘ Lea &
Perrins Worcestershire Sauce & Tabasco’ along with a glug of Brenda’s Red Wine, then adding
the browned off Beef along with a rich Beef & Vegetables Stock, seasoned to
taste and left to simmer/cook-off under
the eagle eye of the ‘ Second Chef ’- who ‘skims’ as required.
This evening the ‘ Savoury Herb
Dumplings’ will be placed on the top of the warming ‘Stew’ to cook, served with
local Cabbage with Acelgas, glazed Carrots and Parsley New Potatoes, the aromas are wafting
around the house, at the moment, as I’m typing/posting today’s Blog! “ Comfort Food to Die For “!!
See below;
See below;
The sun was out first thing this morning
and the sky is already blue & cloudless, as there is a light breeze, by
lunchtime it will only reach 16 degs+ - overnight down to 7/8 degs – the next
couple of the days are staying the same, then on Saturday we could have some of
the ‘ wet-stuff’ – from Sunday and into next week it’s now looking dry &
sunny, with patchy clouds, but going a little cooler at times, down to 13 degs
during the day and down to 6 degs at night, the ‘coldest’ spell we have ever
had here in sunny Manilva, watch this space.
See below a different ‘ Drone’ view of
sunny Manilva taken from the far-side of the village.
At lunchtime we will go for a short walk
along ‘Calle Mar’ to take in some fresh air and sit on the sunny side of the
street, this afternoon we will settled down, like ‘ Darby & Joan ‘ on the
settee in front of the TV, with a wool blanket around our legs, as when the sun
goes down, on the far side of the bottom of the village, it goes very cold,
very quickly, later the Oil Heater in the lounge warms us up!
Last night we watched the second part of
‘ Silent Witness ‘ on ‘BBC TV One’ – with four more killings/stabbings before
it was solved! The main channels were taken over by the ‘ Brexit’ vote in Parliament,
as Mrs May lost the vote, today she faces a vote of ‘ No Confidence’ – which is
forecast that she will win, watch this space. All this happing as the ‘ Euro’
was not affected and even gained against the ‘Pound’ – just in time for our
monthly ‘Pension’ transfers start next Monday – ‘Fingers Crossed ‘ !
Thoughts for the Day; See above.
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