WARM AND CRISP SUNNY MANILVA AT THE START OF THE WEEK

MONDAY 2^nd DECEMBER 2013.

Well it’s the start of yet another still sunny week in sunny Manilva! After breakfast I walked down to the car park and brought the car up to the house to check the coolant and Oil ready for our drive over to Marbella bus station tomorrow morning with Gillian; no other plans, so far, this week so we are looking forward to doing nothing but relaxing, drinking, eating, reading etc.-and any other ‘ings’ that I can find!! Brenda has suggested washing,drying,ironing,cleaning and washing - so far!!

Big Bri is in fine form after Everton’s win and Liverpool loosing at Hull?! He is calling us later so no doubt he will have something to say!Mano called in at lunchtime as we met him while we were out for our walk with the dogs,in the new park as you can see in the pictures above;he stopped for a few beers as he was winding down after a stressful week at the hotel on the night shifts.

Yesterday on TVE1 it was the John Travolta season as he was in all the films; it started with ‘Grease’ from 1978, which we did not watch, then a very good, excellent re-make of the 1974 film “The Taking of Pelham 123” with Denzel Washington as the goodie and Travolta as the baddie,James Gandolfini  as the mayor of New York – it also has a very different ending from the original story that was based on actual events.

Finally the late film was “ The Generals Daughter ”from 1999 with Travolta as an Army cop with the ever watchable Madeleine Stowe,James Cronwell,Timothy Hutton, James Wood and Leslie Stefanson – one to watch!

Tonight for supper we are having ‘Escalope of Pork Milanese’ – breaded flattened Pork fillets cooked in foaming Lemon butter and served with ‘Spaghetti Milanese’ on the side, its tossed in my rich Tomato salsa after cooking the Spaghetti ‘Aldante’ – diamond cut Green Beans from the vegetable Chef! Today it’s our ‘Italian day’ in sunny Manilva as for our lunch we are having my homemade ‘Minestrone Soup’ !!

Later we will catch up with all the news, sport and weather details before finding something to watch after channel hopping.

Thought for the Day; See above.

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