SUNNY MANILVA THIS WEEK.

MONDAY/TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY/FRIDAY 10TH/14TH JANUARY 2011.

This week the weather over here in sunny Manilva has been spectacular; every day we have had the sun out all day with clear blue skies, no breeze and the temperature rising above 20 degs every day ! We have been out walking with Cheta as Brenda’s ankle is a lot better and we are starting to get our strength back although Brenda has still got a nasty dry cough, today we also stopped at the chemists in the high street and had our blood pressure tested by Miguel the chemist; both fine so we live to fight another day ! The pictures below show Manilva over the last couple of days at its finest. We have the same weather over the weekend and into next week so tomorrow we are going down to the watch some football at the stadium.

On Monday and Tuesday we took things easy and just pottered about the house; we got up early on Wednesday morning as I had a couple of messages to do around the village and so on the way back I picked up some steak to make a Beef stew; twelve different vegetables went into it along with diced potatoes and all sorts of secret ingredients ! Scouse !! The smell was soon wafting up the street and Liili spotted on Facebook what I was making so they ended up joining us later, she was working a twelve hour day over in Fuengirola and Brian was on a day off; he went out at lunchtime to meet Andy and Carlos and ended up having a seven hour “ Meeting “ down in Morena’s bar! Needless to say a late dinner became an early supper as Andy also joined us, he had just comeback from Christmas and New Year over in England with his family. With the Scouse we had some Cabbage and Baby Beetroot along with some local wine to help things along.

We have also been able to sit outside Bar Rojas at lunchtime and take in the lunchtime tranquility of Manilva; under the Sonbrajo which has now come even more into it’s own as the smoking ban came into law on January 2nd so it is ideal for all the smokers, at the moment Brenda is into her second week of not smoking ( Due to the cough ! ) Today we have been down to Sabinillas to do the shopping and pick up the papers; we have also left a message on Facebook for Jeff and Annette over in Kuala Lumpur as their home back in Australia is in Brisbane ! We hope everything is OK as Annette was going over at the end of the month to visit her family – we are thinking about you both, all our love.

PS; We have just come off the Skype video ( Sun - Morning ) and have spoken to Jeff and Annette in Kuala Lumpur,their house in Brisbane is ok and thier son Paul also,Annette is a Brisbane girl and all her family are also ok ! They have just spent the weekend in Borneo and Jeff is off to Tokio,Japan on business next week - what a life !


Thought for the Day;

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.


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