A CRISP AND SUNNY MANILVA ON TUESDAY;

TUESDAY 13^th/ JANUARY 2015.

I was up early this morning to see ‘Reina’ back for the day, she shot upstairs and got into her duvet across the foot of our bed, I followed and got under our duvet and we all promptly fell a sleep for another two hours! This was because the early morning deliveries had already arrived and ‘Charlie’ had finished his first thing in the morning repertoire of calls, so it was very quiet in the village. Well that’s our excuse!

The weather forecast for the rest of the week and over the weekend is looking good with none of the wet stuff, its going to be dry, crisp and sunny, the only problem is that by Saturday the tail end of the very cold weather, hitting the UK at the moment is due to sweep across Spain and its going to get a lot colder; we will need all of our ‘Winter Fuel Allowance’ to keep us warm! I’d like the Minister Ian Duncan Smith to be our guest over the weekend in our guest bedroom on the second floor – it would change his decision very quickly!

So back to today, after breakfast I shot out to the local Greengrocers for some fresh local Plum Tomatoes then down to the butchers for tonight’s supper ‘Escalope of Chicken Breast’ which we are having with a few dry-sautéed thick-cut slices of Baked potato along with some Green Vegetables – at the same time I also bought some Chicken Wings for another day and also the Cubed Beef for tomorrows ‘Beef Bourguignon’

When I got back to the house I then made a fresh batch of my famous ‘Tomato Salsa’ using the Plum Tomatoes – see the picture below.

In the last couple of days we spoken to Tim over in Old Colwyn on the Skype video, he called via his mobile in his car, as he was driving with Ben and then later we made contact; he was mainly ringing with some bad new about a friend/ex-staff, a very loyal and hard working lady, who’s grandson was very ill in hospital, he has since died at the age of 18,our thoughts go out to them and all their extended family at this very sad time.

On the way back from our sales shopping yesterday, I forgot to say, we called in ‘Nuevo Pueblo Guadiaro’ above Sotogrande and ‘raided’ Iceland again! One thing that we are missing at the moment if that their frequent shopper discount cards have not arrived yet!

Last night after supper we started to watch a film with Robert De Niro and John Travolta “Killing Season” from 2013 but Brenda did not like the violence so we changed over the true story of a runaway train in the USA with Denzel Washington & Chris Pine “Unstoppable” from 2010, we seen it before but its still very exciting to watch!

PS; Our first postcard of 2015 arrived today from our friend Lillemor in Sweden, keep them coming and receive one back from sunny Manilva!! See below.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.


And for today a special one below;

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