MANILVA START OR THE WEEK.

MONDAY/TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY 19th/20th/21st MARCH 2012.

The weather is still fine with sun and clear skies and no breeze down here on the Costa Del Sol; the rest of Spain is not as good, in fact at the start of this week there have already been severe rain storms in Northern Spain and just up the coast from us and also inland a bit they have had four inches of snow in Almeria and Jaen ! On Monday we took things easy and caught up with the jobs around the house; after our walk Brenda was up on the roof after lunch and I went in the office to catch up with all the news and watch some TV on the BBCIPlayer – ‘ Saturday Morning Kitchen ’and the last ever ‘ Something for the Weekend ’ At different times of the day we also listen to the ‘ Chris Moyle’s Breakfast Show ’ and one of my favourite radio programmes – which has been hosted by Nicholas Parsons since it started 47 years ago ‘ Just a Minute ’ with currently Paul Merton as the main panelist. Each of the four guests on the panel are given a topic to speak on for one minute without ‘ Hesitation, Repetition or Deviation ’ It is very funny and at the same time very clever as Nicholas Parson’s adjudicates the show, this week it was recorded in Mumbai and had two Indian comics on the panel who were hilarious as they attempted to take on Paul Merton – the master ! In the evening for supper we had ‘ Minute Steak ’for supper !!

Tuesday morning after breakfast of Tea and Toast with local Honey we went for a walk with Cheta and Anna who had called in earlier; I’ am also at the moment reading again and catching up with books that Brenda has read ! For dinner we had Pan Fried flattened Chicken Breast with Boulangere Potatoes before watching the TV, Barcelona in the late match beat Granada 5-3 ( Not many teams score three goals at Barcelona ) with Messi scoring another hat trick including two lobs and at the same time he became the leading goal scorer in ‘ La Liga ’and he is know the leading goal scorer in history for Barcelona !

Today is one of our at home days; tonight we are having Sliced Turkey Breast cooked in foaming Lime Butter ( I know it is nearly the same as last night ) but we are clearing out the deep freeze ! I have made a Mushroom Cream sauce and Basmati Rice with diced Pimento’s for a change. Later the big game over in England is Manchester City v Chelsea – watch this space. Tomorrow night I am going to make a Liver and Sausage Casserole with the Liver from the deep freeze along with some Homemade Leek and Onion Sausages from the English butchers and last weeks Braised Onion sauce !! Yummy !!!

PS; Manchester City beat Chelsea in the last 15mins 2-1which means that Utd.are still only one point ahead but down at QPR.Liverpool lost in the last 15mins. 3-2 ! meanwhile Everton were robbed and lost 1-0 to Spurs - it was not off side - sorry Big Bri ! Over here Real Madrid drew again 1-1 against Villarreal and so they are now only six points ahead of Barca.


Thought for the Day;

Many years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than the ones you did do.



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