A WARM AND STILL SUNNY MANILVA ON SUNDAY;

SUNDAY 2^nd/ NOVEMBER 2014.

Just a little lie in this morning as we had today’s roast to get on the go; after a quick breakfast we started with the ‘Roast Loin Of Pork’ and the Chestnut & Herb stuffing, at this time of the year the Chestnuts are at their best, the ‘Hot Chestnut Man’ is in Calle Mar at the weekends!

From the vegetable department/chef we are having Cauliflower Florets in a three-Cheese sauce, Cabbage with Alselgas, Crushed Carrots & Turnips and Garden Peas and Goose Fat Roast Potatoes – I have made a pan of my famous finger licking Gravy. See below,its all for two days - honest!

We then freshened our selves up and went for a nice walk in the lunchtime sunshine, it’s a beautiful day here n sunny Manilva, down to the cemetery as today is the “Dia De Muertos – Day of the Dead” a very special religious weekend in Spain and all over the World; all the ladies of the village dress up and after the mass, this year with the new young Padre which we introduced ourselves too at lunchtime outside the church house, they then go into the local cemetery next to the church and decorate all the their family wall Mausoleum’s with the finest flowers available! See the picture above.

We the called into ‘Bar Rojas’ just for a nice cool drink but our friend Antonio insisted on us having Lumy’s famous Paella with him,at the same time sat on the next table was a friend that we see from time to time when he’s over. Nick with his son and a friend, so we ended up having a drink later with them and good catch-up and gossip!

When we came back to the house I caught the end of the Manchester City v Manchester United game - City won 1-0! Yesterday Liverpool lost 1-0 at Newcastle and played terrible again, Everton could only manage a draw at home; over here in ‘La Liga’ Real Madrid won 1-4 at Grenada, Barcelona lost at home to Celta De Vigo 0-1 so went third in the ‘La Liga’ with Real Madrid now top!

Yesterday evening before supper we were able to watch on of the greatest films of all time “The Shawshank Redemption” from 1994- from start to finish, with no commercials, with Tim Robbins & Morgan Freeman. Then we found on TVE 2 the new Rick Stein series on Mediterranean cooking; this week he was in the Italian region of ‘Pughlia’ at the bottom of Italy – the ‘Heel of the Boot’ – some very rustic plain food with local ingredients from the countryside! The high-light was a ‘Lamb Hotpot’ but made with local cheeses and Cherry Tomatoes as well as Onions & Potatoes!

A message for Brian from his Mum over in Runcorn and us and all his friends;

This evening after our ‘Roast of the Day’ we will catch all the news,sport and weather details before watching one of the latest James Bond films.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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