MANILVA AT THE START OF THE WEEK

MONDAY 21^st/ TUESDAY 22^nd/ WEDNESDAY 23^rd/ JANUARY 2013. 

The local forecast for here is a little colder this week and some of the wet stuff towards the end of the week although the skies are still clear and the sun is out at the moment; the rest of Spain it getting it rather bad with floods, high winds and snow storms so we can’t complain! On Monday we had a at home day pottering about the house and catching up with the chores; I ended up in the office checking out the WWW.In the evening for supper we had flattened Turkey Breast cooked on the griddle and coated in foaming Lime Butter with baby New Potatoes and Garden Peas – simple but nice – we then watched “ Double Impact ”from 1991 starring ‘ 2 ’Jean Claude Van Damme’s as if ‘1 ’ is not enough – he wrote(?) and co-produced the film and tries to act the two parts! Hilarious!!

On Tuesday morning we went for a walk around the village with the dog; the work on the ‘ Plaza Pozo Del Rey ’is going along slowly as you can see in the picture below, the council have just announced that at the same time they are going to put in new drains in the surrounding streets and then resurface them so as to finish off the project properly! Next month the work is due to start on ‘ Santa Ana ’Church which will take over nine months to complete – the scaffolding is going up inside and out to get access to all the corners that are battered ! Watch this space. In the afternoon we found a rather nice film “ The Fabulous Baker Boys ” from 1989 starring the real life brothers, Jeff and Beau Bridges and the very ‘ Fragrant’ Michelle Pfeiffer as the girl singer with a heart! She won a ‘Golden Globe’ for her part in the film and it was nominated for many awards.

We picked up some Pork Cutlets from our butchers which we had in the evening for supper – I grilled them on our new griddle pan, which is very good and Brenda got the Cabbage with Alselgas and Mashed Carrots and Turnips on the go – I made a new Potato dish with cooked / cubed cold new potatoes fried in foaming butter with chopped Onions and Garlic, diced Red Peppers and cubed Smoked Ham – rather tasty and just right with Cutlets. It was then ‘ Cowboy’ time – a classic John Wayne movie called “ The Sons of Katie Elder ” from 1965 with Dean Martin and George Kennedy as one of the baddies! It’s the story of the four brothers trying to atone for their sins to a saintly mother who has recently died – John Wayne at his best !

This morning, Wednesday we were up early as I had an appointment at our doctors to update him on my hospital visits and also renew a prescriptions, he also gave Brenda the once over – so it was two birds killed with one stone! Today with the ‘ Lavante’ wind blowing it is the first time that our night-time temperatures are due to drop below 10degs! – the day-time temperature is still hovering at 15/16degs with the sunny still out! Yesterday on Facebook Tim posted a picture of himself playing golf at Old Colwyn(?)  Come on over Tim as you will need your sunglasses and no woolly hat to play here in Sunny Manilva at our local courses !! See the pictures above. This evening is ‘ Curry Night’ here in Manilva with some of my now famous Chicken Curry from the other week on the menu; we will then channel hop and watch the news and then a film.

Thoughts for the Day;

It’s what you learn after you know it all counts.  You learn something every day if you pay attention.

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