A STILL OVERCAST SUNNY MANILVA ON SATURDAY; " SPRING EQUINOX!

SATURDAY 21^st/ MARCH 2015.

We had a well earned lie in this morning after all the excitement of yesterday and week; overnight we have had a lot of light rain but yesterday afternoon and evening when we were out and about it was dry and mild, the forecast for today has also changed as the cold & wet front in from the Atlantic has moved away, just for today, tomorrow its back with a vengeance and we are due for a very wet day and also more of the same on Monday and Tuesday.

Before breakfast Brenda shot down to our local post office to post the Easter cards to her three sisters, when she came back I was treated to her famous ‘Campo’ Poached Eggs on toast with a mug of steaming tea. I then moved up to the office to start typing the Blog and at the same time watching the 400th edition ( over 9 years) of ‘Saturday Kitchen Live’ on the smaller PC.

Last nights launch of the ‘ Compromiso Manilva’ party took place in the ‘Flamenco’ cellar bar/restaurant down in Sabinillas at ‘El Restaurante Meson El Molino’ It was packed to the rafters with as usual non-stop talking, getting louder all the time, with all the locals, thankfully not smoking or drinking as the bar was closed until after the presentation! The speeches were not long, very unusual, and the crowd was brought to a frenzy by the time Diego, the Mayor spoke! The atmosphere was electric as he gave his all in the opening speech of the party and the elections to come in May.

We then slipped away down to a very quiet Puerto de la Duquesa to the ‘KinnareeThai’ restaurant which was also very quiet where we had a very nice meal and ended up having a nice chat with the host Lisa along with a complementary glass of Brandy for Brenda!

At lunchtime ‘Scruffy’ is due back with us here in ‘Doggy World Heaven’ – he’s not been with us for a couple of weeks so we have missed him terrible, he’s here for a two day sleep over and is being picked up on Monday morning. No doubt later his play mate ‘Chispa’ will be calling in so we will go for a good walk around the village if she’s still here

We have just come back from a walk with the dogs and bumped into Mano,Anna and Big Bri in Cafe Plaza so we had a good catch up,I took a picture of the top half of Calle Iglasia after they have finished the work on the street!

For our supper this evening we are having ‘Entrecote Steak’ cooked on a very hot griddle plate ‘Med-Rare’ with sautéed Mushrooms & Shallots, finely sliced Green Beans and of course ‘Proper’ twice-cooked ‘Chips’ Tomorrow we are staying in and roasting as its going to be a wet and windy day here in sunny Manilva will brave the elements with ‘Scruffy’- both of us all wrapped up in our raincoats!

It’s a big weekend on the sports front as in the ‘Six Nations Rugby’ the final matches will decide who will lift the trophy as England play France, Scotland welcome Ireland and Wales travel to Italy. Meanwhile in the football over here in ‘La Liga’it’s the ‘Classico’ game when Barcelona welcome Real Madrid on Sunday; over in the ‘Premiere League’ in England Manchester City welcome West Brom today and then tomorrow Everton travel down to QPR and the ‘Match of the Day’ is when Liverpool welcome Manchester Utd.

In a sensational game of Rugby Union Wales beat Italy 20-61 and are now 20 points ahead of Ireland and 16 points ahead of England ! Oh and yes City won 3-0.A record win for Ireland 10-40 leaves England having to beat France by 26 points  to win the 'Six Nations' trophy!! England won 55-35 so IRELAND ARE THE CHAMPIONS !!

After supper we will catch up with all the news, sport and weather details for the week ahead before settling down to find a film to watch.

'Bodnant Gardens' North Wales - Spring has arrived this morning!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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