A VERY HOT AND SUNNY MANILVA ON " PALM SUNDAY"

SUNDAY 29^th/ MARCH 2015          “ PALM SUNDAY ”

Last night was the warmest night on record for this time of the year as the tempretetures reached 14/15 degs and today its forecast to rise during the day to 27/28degs! We were up early despite loosing the hour as we have busy day ahead of us; after a quick breakfast I got the ‘Mince’ on the go for tonight’s ‘Cottage Pie’ that Brenda will top later with her famous Mashed potato!

The mince is made with a good rich Beef & Vegetable stock after sweating off the finely diced Carrots,Onions,Celery,Leeks, Turnips & Mushrooms along with the Beef & Pork Mince, adding my secret ingreadinents,brought to boil and simmered and skimmed before adjusting the taste and consistency.

We then freshened ourselves up and shot down to the church in time for the ‘Palm Sunday’ celebrations; as the weather is so fine all the village was out, normally at this time of the year it’s a little cold and overcast, today is the hottest ‘Palm Sunday’ that anybody can remember!

See all the pictures above of the procession through the streets of sunny Manilva as the ‘Tableau’ of the ‘La Borriquita’ now decorated, was carried by the ‘Brotherhood’ with in charge Salvador who is the foreman on the building site next to our house! Led by the village Brass Band and its leader Fernando along with the Civic dignitaries and the young children it took longer than normal as they had to stop more often for refreshments.

Last night I went down to the official opening ceremony as the guest of the Mayor, Diego, the new Sports ‘City’ Complex, is very impressive as you can see in the pictures below; its going to be run by a company and all the Gyms. Sports Hall etc will be fitted out by them, the main hall is also going to be used for functions seating up to 400 hundred people, and it will be a great asset to the village.

Also last night over in Estepona the new and spectacular ‘Orchid House & Botanic Park’ was also official opened, the pictures below were taken by Gary of ‘The Resident’ newspaper, thanks! The night time pictures with the colored lights is very impressive.

We sat under the ‘Sonbrajo’ outside Bar Rojas for a cool drink with ‘Chispa; who had joined us; this week in ‘Doggy World Heaven’ we are very busy as ‘Reina’ is with us on Tuesday & Thursday as normal and then back on Friday for a sleep over until Saturday evening ‘Scruffy’ is on a sleep over on Tuesday & Saturday and of course ‘Chispa’ will be out and about and calling in for her regular cool drink!

This evening we are going across to the border to pick Den & Josie up from the airport in Gibraltar and will have our supper when we return. They are here for two weeks, so no doubt we will be out and about with them in their busy schedule!

They have arrived !

Thoughts for the Day;See above.

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