Wednesday, February 05, 2020

A COOLER & OVERCAST, BUT STILL DRY SUNNY MANILVA ON WEDNESDAY.


WEDNESDAY 5th/FEBRUARY 2020.
































I was up very early this morning and after a quick freshen up I shot off down to Sabinillas to the main ‘ Medical Centre’ to get in queue, at 7-30 am, to book our appointments at 8-00 am when they opened, I was No 3! I arranged our appointments for 9-50 & 10-00 am, so I then shot back up the hill to our house.


We then had our breakfast of a well earned ‘Toasted Crispy Smoked Bacon Butty’ – smothered in ’HP’ Brown sauce – just brown toast for Brenda, with mugs of hot/strong tea.












I then quickly put together this evenings supper; a ‘ Beef & Vegetable Casserole ‘ – using slices of Entrecote of Beef, lightly dusted in seasoned flour and browned off, I sweated off the diced Onion, Shallots & Garlic, with a dash of ‘Lea & Perrins & Tabasco’ - adding the diced Carrots, Leeks, Celery, Turnips and Green Beans, before adding a small jug on a rich ‘Meat ‘ stock, as well as a rich ‘Demi-Glaze’ – adjusting the seasoning and left to cook off, finally topping up the casserole dish, ready to go in the over this evening, served with ‘Glazed  Whole Baby Carrots and Garden Peas, with the classic ‘ Rissole’ potatoes – Baby Boiled Potatoes, in their skins, tossed in foaming ‘Parsley Butter’ - until crisp & golden.












We then set off back down to Sabinillas to go for our appointments with our new Doctor, Natalia (2) – who was off sick, with flu, she hasn’t had her ‘ Gripe’ Anti-Flu jab’! We had a bit of luck as the relief Doctor was young gentleman, who spoke good English “ RESULT “ He renewed all our prescriptions after a check up/review of our history, he could be moving up to the local Surgery in the village, so we are going to watch out and transfer to him, watch this space














As I set off this morning we had in the village a heavy mist, which yesterday was a ‘ Sea Fog’ hanging over the Mediterranean all along the coast, it came up later in the evening and stayed overnight over the village, it’s caused by a particular set of weather conditions at this time of the year. At the moment Malaga Airport is closed!


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To start the sky was clearing and the clouds were moving away, with a stiff breeze, as the new ‘ Atlantic’ front moved in, bringing with it a colder weather front, it’s dropped nearly 10 degs, to 14/15 degs+ - still overnight 12/13 degs, at the moment we have overhead black clouds, with the threat of the ‘ Wet-Stuff’ in the air, tomorrow when we are out on our travels to Estepona, it’s looking the same, as well as over the weekend, on Friday when we are going out for supper with Kevin & Caroline, at the moment its dry & cool, next week is starting to look more settled and dry as the sunshine returns, hovering in the mid/high ‘ Teens’ Watch this space.









We are waiting to hear from the specialist garage in Estepona, so we can shoot across with Andy, this afternoon, to get the new wind screen fixed to the car, it’s all been arranged by our Insurance!  Watch this space.













This evening we will catch the second part of a very exciting and gripping ‘Silent Witness’ - last night we watched the next episode of ‘ Cold Feet’ – with lots of very moving surprises.





















Thoughts for the Day;  See above.





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