A COLD & DAMP SUNNY MANILVA ON FRIDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEKEND.

FRIDAY 1^st/ FEBRUARY 2019.

We managed a nice lie in this morning and then after freshening up we had my now famous ‘ Toasted Crispy Smoked Bacon Butties’ – smothered in ‘ HP’ Brown sauce – open on brown for Brenda, with mugs of strong/hot ‘PG’ Tips Tea, I was on the breakfast rota, as I was not out on my travels, as usual, because of the weather.

Late yesterday evening the wind strengthened up, as forecast, the rain then hit us and carried on all night, with strong gusts of wind, the whole region is on ‘Yellow/Orange’ alerts, as the new ‘Atlantic’ storm – now classed as “ Hurricane Leslie “ - hits us, this morning it’s cold, grey & overcast, with lots of black clouds around, the storm is moving inland up into the mountains behind the village, at the moment it’s stopped raining, it will only reach 14 degs+ later, down to even 4 degs during the night! Tomorrow is staying dry & cold, but dry, then on Sunday the new ‘ Atlantic’ front comes in bringing with it warmer/sunny weather, next week is now looking dry, most importantly, with warmer sunshine and a few patchy clouds at times, hovering in the mid/high ‘teens’ – reaching 20 degs+ by next Thursday! Watch this space.

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After typing/posting today’s Blog I’m going down in the kitchen preparing this evening supper – my famous recipe of ‘ Fish Pie ‘ – topped with Brenda’s famous ‘ Mashed Potato ‘ – I first  sweat-off  a ‘ Mirapoix’  of small diced vegetables, in ‘White Wine or Vermouth’ ( Big Brian’s recipe!) – the fish is poached off ‘ Haddock & Pink Trout ‘ today – I then make a rich ‘Bechamel’ sauce and add the ‘Mirapoix’ – as well as the flaked poached Fish, Mussels, Prawns & Crab, along with chopped Parsley and seasoning, adjust the consistency and ‘cook-off’ – it’s then placed in the buttered glass casserole dish and left to cool off before Brenda tops it with her ‘ Mashed Potato’ ready to go in the oven this evening!  

Just a quick sports update; this evening the “ Guinness Six Nations “ Rugby Union kicks off with the first game over in Paris, as France welcome Wales. Tomorrow Scotland welcome Italy and the ‘Game of the Day’ is over in Dublin as the Champions, Ireland welcome England!

Later we will settle down in front of the TV to catch up with all the ‘ Quiz Shows’ that we follow, this evening it will be the ‘Rugby’ match and then our regular Friday programmes.

Thoughts for the Day ; See above.

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