SUNNY AND HOT MANILVA AT THE START OF THE WEEKEND

FRIDAY 18^th/ OCTOBER 2013.

This morning after our breakfast we first shot down to the surgery to make an appointment for some blood tests for me as I’ am due back at the hospital in November with the Prostrate Consultant for a six month check up; at the same time I arranged for our ‘Gripe – Anti-Flu Jabs’ next week on Thursday.

Before we left we had some bad news from Australia, Brenda’s niece, Deb, Lyn’s oldest daughter, husband Dornoch passed away over night after a short but severe illness; our thoughts go out to all the family at this very sad time, Condolences from us and Norah and Jenny over in England. You are in our hearts and we are thinking off you.

It was then time to go down to Sabinillas for the shopping; I called into the bank and then went to the fruit and vegetable market, I picked up some fresh Parsnips for our Sunday Roast and some Chestnuts to make the stuffing with; after calling at the supermarket we stopped at the English bookshop for the papers and I exchanged some ‘Patterson’s for another one that I think we have not read! 

When we got back up to the village we went down to the local market by the sports complex and bought some fresh Flowers, after unpacking I walked around to the butchers for our Saturday night steaks and spotted some fresh Calves Liver so I also had some thin slices cut for sometime next week!

Anna called in at lunchtime just after the handyman had been to fix the electric hot-plate that did not come on yesterday lunchtime; the wires had burned out underneath, so at the same time Brenda had him look at the main shower as were struggling to get hot water, he adjusted the thermostat control and it backs to normal! No hot-plate would mean no cooking – we would be in shock, what would we do!!

Anyway we are back to normal and tonight for supper we are having ‘Panga’ Fillets deep-fried in ‘Cruz Campo Batter; we enjoyed the ‘Panga’ last week in breadcrumbs and it’s a excellent fish for this sort of dish; with it we are having square chips and Mushy Peas with homemade Tartar sauce that I made earlier this morning! We can’t wait!

Back on the sports front this weekend the football is back to normal, for the moment; over in the ‘Premier League’ in England its Newcastle v Liverpool, Everton v Hull and West Ham v Manchester City and over here in ‘La Liga’ its Real Madrid v Malaga and Osasuna v Barcelona. Over in Melbourne at the ‘Phillip Island Circuit’ it’s the ‘Australian Motor GP’ – Marc Marques has just crashed in practice but he is OK!

After supper we will watch the news and weather as the forecast for tomorrow is at the moment showing some of the wet stuff ?! Where’s that come from ?

Thought for the Day; See above.

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