A VERY HOT AND SUNNY MANILVA ON SUNDAY ( HANG - OVER - DAY ! )

SUNDAY 27^th/ JULY 2014.

I was up first this morning and took Scruffy for his morning ‘Constitutional’ as the Council Cleansing Department were staring the big task of cleaning Calle Mar; the party went on until 4-00am this morning when the band stopped playing on the stage at the top of our street!

Scruffy is being collected this morning and will no doubt be back some time next week, meanwhile ‘Reina’ is here on Monday, possibly another day and then on Friday for the weekend as Lee & Daneila get married! Last night on his final walk of the day I bumped into Jan & Brian and asked after ‘Charlie’ who is on some medication to help him feel better, he’s going to be back with us in September for a few days which is great news!

The weather forecast for the week ahead is very good with more of the same, very hot and sunny with no breeze and warm during the night, so no difference then to normal! No plans for the week ahead at the moment so it’s back to our regular routine of sleeping, eating and drinking in our life down here on the ‘Costa Del Sol!’- It’s a hard life but we will survive!!

Meanwhile down in the ‘Work House’ ( kitchen!) my very able assistant is busy preparing the ingredients for another batch of our famous ‘Ensaladilla Rusa’ – then tomorrow morning its time for me to make my equally famous ‘Tomato Salsa’

This evening Den & Josie are joining us for an early supper as they are ‘jetting-off’ - well bus & ‘shanks pony’ to Seville for a couple of days to take in the sights,sounds,food and cultures of the hottest city in Spain – 38degs and rising! So this evening we are having some light Tapas to start with and I will then disappear to the kitchen to make to order ( non-stop stirring!) another of our classics “ Smoked Chicken & Broad Bean Risotto”

This afternoon it’s the final stage 21 of the ‘Tour De France’ ( Thank God says Josie!) as it goes from ‘Evry to Paris and the Champs Elysees’ – barring an accident the Italian rider Nibali has won to add to his third win of a ‘Grand Tour’ – Spain & Italy also! Over in Hungary at the ‘Grand Prix’ Lewis Hamilton starts at the back of the grid after his car caught fire yesterday when qualifying!!

PS; This evening on the main stage in front of the Town Hall at the top of our street there is performance by the senior local 'Theater Group' at 10-00pm to bring the week to a close.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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