A WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY " NOCHE BUENA " " XMAS EVE "

THURSDAY 24^th/ DECEMBER 2015.  “ NOCHE BUENA “  “ XMAS EVE “

We were up in our own time this morning and welcomed back ‘Reina’ for the day, we then took ‘Barny & Charlie’ for their first walk of the day; the sun was out and the skies had cleared and there was no breeze so it was very mild and pleasant as we walked around the village.

A little treat for breakfast was called for so we had Fried ‘Campo’ Eggs & very Crispy Smoked Bacon with lots of buttered toast and mugs of steaming tea! See below.

I then walked around to our butchers and collected the ‘Rib of Beef’ for our Boxing Day ‘Roast’ See below;

I’m roasting the Turkey this afternoon and will then make the pan-gravy, Brenda is also preparing some of the vegetable selection at the same time.See below the Turkey before it went in the oven at lunchtime;

NB; Cold Turkey, Turkey Sandwiches and Turkey 'Fricassee' to follow!

                                                                                                                       And out of the oven!!

 

For our supper this evening we are having a Grilled ‘Rib of Beef Steak’ cooked on a very hot griddle plate ‘Med-Rare’ with sautéed Baby Mushrooms, I then leave the steak to rest before taking it off the bone and slicing it into ‘French’ style strips, on the side we are having some finely sliced Green Beans & twice-cooked ‘Chips’ with a sauceboat of ‘Bearnaise’ !

Last night before our supper we walked down to the ‘Iglesia Santa Ana de Manilva’ church to watch and listen too the ‘Concierto De Navidad – Xmas Concert’ performed by the ‘Banda Municipal de Musica’- the ‘Brass Band of Manilva’ led by Fernando the Principal of the School of Music. The church was packed, by all the village, as the band performed their programme, each year its gets better and more complicated and is greeted with loud clapping and cheering, this year the church was flood lit and decorated outside and inside for the first time there was a traditional Andalucian ‘Nativity’ Toy Grotto, see all the pictures above.

SORRY ! Due to technical difficulties beyond my control, I pressed the 'wrong button' and lost all of last nights pictures!! 

PS; I've found some pictures on the Council Web Site - See above.

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Later after we had our supper the new Xmas ‘Parranda De la Juventud Manilveña’ band came along Calle Mar again, this time led by their ‘Mascot’ – a large live Turkey in a decorated trolley!! See the pictures above.( SORRY! ) They ended up in the wee small hours back in our street outside ‘Bodegon Andaluz’ for their last song of the night still with the Turkey!

PS; I did see a 'live' Turkey!! 

We watched later the second part of the finals of ‘Master Chef - The Professionals’ on BBC2, the last part is this evening before finding the late film over on TVE1.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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