A ' BREEZY' & SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY.

THURSDAY 10^th/ OCTOBER 2019.

We managed a nice lie in this morning as the village was quieter than normal, ‘Winnie’ slept like a log all night, as usual, on the foot of our bed! After freshening up we had our usual light breakfast of ‘ Weetabix’ with sliced Banana for me and Brown toast for Brenda, with mugs of strong tea.

Brenda then took ‘ Winnie’ out for her first walk of the day, after I had shot down to our local Butchers, in ‘Calle Iglaise’ – which is slowly starting to take shape, as the refurbishment go’s on & on, they are only half-way down the street to the Church!  I picked up two boned ‘Chicken Legs & Thighs’ to go with the Diced Chicken Breast, for today’s ‘ Chicken & Mushroom Curry ‘

I prepared all the ingredients, diced Onions & Garlic, diced ‘ Fuji’ Apple, diced Pineapple ( Tinned) as well as Baby Mushrooms, I then tossed all the diced Chicken in seasoned flour and browned it off, at the time, I sweated off all the ingredients, adding a large dash of ‘Lea & Perrins & Tabasco’ – Tomato Frito, Lemon & Lime juice, as well as various Curry Powders & Pastes, along with the Desiccated Coconut, the browned-off Chicken is then added to the pan with a strong Chicken & Vegetable stock, then left to cook-off under the eye of the ‘ Second Chef’ – who is also preparing/cooking her famous ‘ Basmati Rice’! Served with Garden Peas & sliced Banana.

Our friend Andy is joining us this evening for supper, in a few weeks time he’s off to Thailand for his annual four weeks holiday. To start we will have some ‘Tapas’ and for dessert, Fresh fruit with Jelly & Ice Cream!   

See below a spectacular picture of the village of Casares, taken yesterday evening! 

Overnight the breeze got up, as forecast, this morning  the sun has just broken through, there are few patchy clouds hanging around in the blue sky, by lunchtime it’s due to reach 23 degs+ - back to normal for the time of the year, tomorrow I could be in for some of the ‘Wet-Stuff’ when I’m out on my travels, the weekend is looking dry and cooler, next week is now looking mixed, with patchy clouds, sunshine and light rain at times, hovering in the low 20s, overnight dropping down to 15/ 16 degs, for the first time in over five months! Watch this space.

We are taking the rest of the day easy & relaxing, after all the excitement of last week, as well as all the running around this week, down on the ‘ Costa Del Sol ‘!

Thoughts for the Day ; See above.

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