NEARLY SUNNY MANILVA AND NOW VERY HOT ON MONDAY MORNING/AFTERNOON

MONDAY 7^th/ OCTOBER 2013.

Early this morning I discovered that our electrity had gone off in the middle of the night; when I checked the street lights were still on but our main fuse board was blown! Brenda spotted one of our neighbours coming up the street and asked was hers off, no was the answerer so it meant that we had a problem?! Antonia must have had this happen before as she immediately checked around the sockets pulling out the plugs and found that it was the multi-socket in the kitchen, it turn out that the kettle was leaking and had blown the system! We were very grateful for her help!!

After breakfast I made a batch on my famous “ Minestrone” soup; I finely diced, wait for it, Onions, Garlic, Carrots, Green Beans, Green Peppers,Courgettes,Aubergine,Cabbage,Swede,Leeks,Potatoes and cooked them in a vegetable stock and sweated them off, added the cut/cooked Spaghetti and herbs with Tomato Frito and finally added my Tomato Salsa and seasoned to taste but not before I added the final ingredient ‘Garbanzos’- White Beans !!

This afternoon we are going across to the hospital past Marbella as Brenda has an appointment to see an Eye Consultant; the weather is a little overcast and cooler at the moment but no doubt will pick up later.Well it did pick up in fact it was very hot and sunny for our drive across to Marbella;the consultant gave Brenda the full-works and the results are good,no Cataracts of Glaucoma and a low limit reading on her eye pressure test limit,this means that she does need to wear glass's all the time but no other treatment,she has to go back in February next year for three tests to check how she is doing! Result !!

On the way back we called into a new 'Aldi' in Estepona to see if they had the new 'Gourmet Food & Drink'range that I read about the other day in the Daily Mail; it includes Smoked Salmon,Lobster Tails,Angus steak,Cherry Crumble and the award winning Champagne - sadly they have not arrived in sunny Estepona yet! We stopped at 'Carrefour' to check out the kettles,no luck so we called into 'Gavira Bros' but they were too expensive but found one in Sabinillas at our regular shop - another good result!

This evening we are having the rest of the Lancashire Hot Pot for supper before we watch the news and weather forecast on TVE1,last night’s late film after Mano and Anna had left was “ Zodiac ”from 2007 – it is a mystery/ thriller about a serial killer in San Francisco who in the late 60s/early 70s killed all sorts of people, then stopped and was never found, it’s a true story about  newspaper reporters and cops who never gave up the hunt, the main suspect in the end died in 1991but it was never proved that he was guilty; Jake Gyllenhaal,Robert Downey Jnr, Brian Cox, Mark Ruffllo and Cloe Sivigny make up the excellent cast – don’t miss it!

Thought for the Day’ See above.

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