A STILL CRISP AND SUNNY MANILVA ON TUESDAY;

TUESDAY 30^th/ DECEMBER 2014.

I was up early this morning as little princess ‘Reina’ was being dropped off for the day, at lunchtime ‘Scruffy’ is arriving for a two day sleep over and of course ‘Chispa’ will call in some time this morning to see who of her friends is here! ‘Charlie’ the ‘African Grey’ Parrot is settling in, he’s here for the week until Saturday as Andy & Maria have gone to see her family in Seville then at the end of the following week after the “Three Kings” celebrations on Tuesday 6^th they are going to England to see Andy’s mum for a week; this means that we could have ‘Charlie’ with us for three weeks! See his picture below;

Today the sky is blue and the sun is out but it’s still very crisp and you need to wrap up well with a hat and scrarf, the same weather is with us for the rest of the week but none of the wet stuff is due and it’s going a little warmer by the weekend.

Last night we had a very nice evening with Andy & Maria; it was our ‘Xmas Party’ night as we exchanged table presents and pulled the executive Crackers (Iceland!) Andy brought with him some rather strong dark Cuban Rum which we ended up on after supper, they gave us some very nice scarves, a large Red one for me and a Purple fluffy one for Brenda – just right for the current weather!

Today is definitely an at home day so ‘we’ are catching up with the chores, I’m up in the office on the WWW and Brenda is as usual busy around the house in full ‘ing’ mode! We will go for a short walk later with the dogs.In fact we went for a long walk with all three dogs as it went warmer as the day went on.

Over in England the football is at its height in the ‘Premiere League’ during the festive celebrations while over here the ‘La Liga’ closes down for the holiday period until the New Year and they all go on expensive holiday’s world wide! Liverpool won 4-2 City could only draw 2-2 and Everton lost again 3-2 – sorry Big Brig! Next it’s the traditional New Years Day matches when they all play.

On the menu front tonight we are having pan-grilled ‘Chicken Wings’ with a little mixed salad and a Baked Potato, then tomorrow evening we have treated ourselves to ‘T-Bone’ steaks and on New Years Day we are having ‘Lamb Shanks’ in minted Gravy – the new ‘health regime’ will kick in on Monday 5^th January 2015 – honest Josie! – By the time you arrive on the 16^th  we will be shadows of our former self’s!!

This evening after supper we will catch up with all the news, sport and weather details before settling down to find something to watch.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

..