A NOW WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON MONDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEK.

MONDAY 9^th/ SEPTEMBER 2019.

I was up early this morning to welcome back little ‘ Miss Bella’ for the day, she’s back with us in ‘Doggy World Heaven’ on Wednesday morning and then Friday morning for her first three nights sleep-over, no doubt ‘ Chispa’ will be calling in to see her later!

I then listened to the ‘ Andrew Charles Breakfast Show’ on “ Castle Radio FM 892 & Online on the WWW”  as this week's‘Music Quiz’ came on, it was a three second starter-track ( burst) – I got it straight away, it was ‘Congratulations ‘ with Cliff Richard, from back in 1968!  I was first in the draw, for Friday’s winner, again!

We then all had a little lie in as overnight it was rather ‘ Close’ – so we didn’t have a good night sleep, after freshening up, I was on the breakfast rota, I sautéed some sliced Baby Mushrooms in the ‘Crispy Smoked Bacon’ fat, adding a knob of Butter, to have on my butty, open on brown for Brenda , with mugs of strong ‘ PG ‘ Tips Tea, to start the week in the right way!

Tomorrow morning we are going across to Estepona, first thing in the morning, I’m going to my Barbers, Manuel, for the ‘ full-works’ & Brenda is going to do a little essential retail shopping, so she tells me! 


PS; The ' Costa Del Sol Hospital ' has just rung with my appointment at the ' Dermatology Department'  -  tomorrow evening at 6-00 pm ! 



Then on Thursday morning we are going across to Marbella to the ‘Hypermarket/Mall ‘ –  “ La Cañada “ for some new clothes etc, ready for the arrival of the ‘Canadian Clan ‘ at the end of the month ( 29^th!)

“ Countdown 22 Days “

Yesterday the forecast/expected, long needed ‘ Rain’ didn’t appear, it spitted a little as we went along to ‘ Bar Castillo for a light ‘Tapas Paella ‘ lunch, but main storm moved up the coast past Malaga, this morning it’s started a little grey & overcast, again, the sun is slowly breaking through the patchy clouds, with still the threat of the ‘ wet-stuff’ in the air, by lunchtime it’s stiil due to reach 28/29 degs+ - the overnight temperatures are  dropping down a little, for the rest of the week and over the coming weekend it’s now looking dry and settled, with some patchy clouds hanging around,  still warm & sunny, hovering in the mid/high 20s into next week, watch this space.

Just a quick update on the sports results; Rafael Nadal beat Daniil Medvedev at the ‘ US Open Tennis ‘ to win his 19^th Grand Slam ! Spain beat the Faroe Islands 4-0 in the ‘ European Championship Qualifying ‘ Football, at Monza,.

At the ‘Italian Grand Prix’ the ‘ Monegasque’ young driver Charles Leclerc,(21 years old)  in the ‘ ‘Red Farrari’ won, in an incident-filled and controversial race, as he pushed the rules on driving conduct, as he nearly ran Lewis Hamilton off the track, to give ‘Farrari ‘their first win, at home, in nine years!

Today’s ‘ Stage 16’ ( see below) of the ‘ Vuelta d’España 19’ goes from Pravia to the top of the Alta de la Cubilla, over 145 kms, through the mountains of Northern Spain, tomorrow is a ‘ Rest-Day’ – the race finishes on Sunday in Madrid, as usual.

For our supper this evening we are having the same as last night, ‘Cold, Sliced Poached Chicken Breast’ with my famous ‘ Russian Salad’ – the rest of the week we are still taking one day at the time, as it’s still too hot to go back to full ‘repertoire’ of classic dishes, watch this space.

Yesterday evening after supper we watched the next exciting and gripping episode of “ Peaky Blinders’ as Tom ( Cillian Murphy) was at his best, as he plotted various new money-making new ventures, made a peace treaty with the ‘ Billy Boys’- as he tries to keep his family under control, Polly, in the green dress below, his sister and the ‘Matriarch Gypsy Queen’ still rules the ‘Mob’-  with her son the young pretender, at the end, in a surprise, the wife of Arthur, the elder nasty brother, tries to shoot him, only to be shot dead by ?!  Catch it to find out who?!

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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