STILL DRY IN SUNNY MANILVA ON SATURDAY;

SATURDAY 18^th/JANUARY 2014.

Well this morning we overslept as it was grey and overcast, raining and nobody about down in our street! It’s now fine and sunny and Brenda has just come back from walking the dog; after a quick cup of tea and toast I shot up to the office to tune into BBCTV1 to watch ‘Saturday Morning Kitchen’ – just as the Skype video went – it was Jack and Lyn from a very hot and sticky Melbourne, they are breaking all the records over there as its not go below 40degs in weeks! They are both very well and we had a lovely chat and catch up with all their family news.

It reminds us that Tim & Thea are due to go to Australia shortly with their friends, also over Xmas two old friends from Llanddulas Jenny, who used to work for us, and Rod her husband have been over there for Christmas with some of their family and had a very exciting experience when they went flying up in Townsville in Queensland over the ‘Great Barrier Reef’ in “ Grumman Sea Cat” called the ‘Red Baron’ – it’s the only two passenger, open cockpit ‘Bi – Plane’ ( String Bag) on floats in the world! See the picture above!!

Mano called in last night after finishing work as Anna had gone back to the UK earlier with her cousin Debbie, Tom the golfers mum, Tom also came calling later looking for a lift from Mano, this lunchtime Mano came along as he was out walking his dog, he’s off today – so it looks like we will be seeing more of him while Anna is away on her’ Jolly!’ I wonder why?!

This afternoon there is full fixture list of football; over in the ‘Premier League’ Liverpool host Aston Villa and Manchester City welcome Cardiff, tomorrow Everton travel to West Brom; over here in ‘La Liga’ Real Betis,the second team of Seville welcome Real Madrid and on Sunday Barcelona travel to Levante.

A good win for City 4-2 but not a good draw for Liverpool 2-2 - Real Madrid won 0-5 !!

This evening for supper we are having ‘Steak au Poivre’ as I have two lovely steaks from our butcher, I make the sauce in the pan after sealing off the steaks in foaming Butter, then put them aside to rest and sweat off the diced Onions before adding the secret ingredients and then the crushed Black Peppercorns,next I deglaze the pan with a slug of Brenda’s Red Wine before tossing in a large measure of Brandy – flamed by Brenda! The steaks go back in the sauce and I finally add some cream to taste. Finely sliced Green Beans and twice-cooked Chips finish a ‘Helluva’steak night down here in sunny Manilva!

Last night we watched a good Medieval romp “ King Arthur ” from 2004 with Clive Owen in the title role and Lancelot played by Ioan Gruffud and Keira Knightly as Guinevere !

Thoughts for the Day from at the moment a dry sunny Manilva;

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