A WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON WEDNESDAY;

WEDNESDAY 5^th / OCTOBER 2016.

We were up before dawn this morning, after a quick freshen up we shot off along the coast road past a dark & calm ‘Mediterranean’ with a black cloudy sky overhead, no spectacular sunrise this morning. It picked up as the morning went on and by the time we reached home early this afternoon it was warm & sunny.

We arrived about 20 minutes early for Brenda’s appointment at the ‘Blood Surgery’ in the ‘ Costa Del Sol Hospital’ just past Marbella, Brenda was taken in straight away, the department is run very efficiently. We are now waiting to hear about her ‘ Ecogram’ and then her appointment with the ‘ Kidney ‘ Consultant, the Hospital rings with the details/dates, watch this space.

On the way back we called into Estepona, we started with nice 'Tostadas' & Coffee in our favourite Cafe, I then had the full works at my Barbers's, Manuel, a shampoo, cut & style, trim & dry shave, a head & scalp massage etc, I then found Brenda who had been for her cosmetic essentials, I had spotted in the sale a very nice shirt which Brenda then 'bought' for me! We then called into the ' Kitchen Shop' for a new electric' Black Pepper Grinder' as the old one has given up the ghost after too much work!

We then shot up to the ' Hypermarket' in the ' Poligamo' - we had no luck with the broken filter for the extraction hood, its was out of guarantee, they are chasing a replacement from Malaga, watch this space. Brenda could not find the ' throws' for our sofa's, that she wanted, but we did find a very nice rug for the office/studio as well as new front door mat!! 

We are now back to normal after this morning’s overcast & cloudy start to the day, the sun is out and the sky is blue, there is a little breeze keeping it just right for the time of the year, the rest of week is looking settled and we will find out about the weekend weather on this afternoons main news.It's staying dry & sunny but going a little cooler over the weekend.

See the picture below of the ‘ Anglican Cathedral ‘ in Liverpool taken from a different view on the far side.

We are having for this evenings supper the rest of the ‘ Brochettes of Pork’ with all the trimmings, See below; tomorrow it’s going to be ‘Grilled Chicken Wings’ with a Mixed Salad, on Friday it’s ‘ Fish Night’ and then on Saturday ‘ Steak Night’ – on Sunday I’m going to make my famous ‘ Smoked Chicken & Broad Bean Risotto’

After supper last night we watched on ‘BBC 2’ “ The Hairy Bikers’ Chicken and Egg “ -.they were in Israel, the first dish that they cooked was ‘ Shakshuka’ – the Israeli version of the Spanish breakfast dish ‘ ‘Huevos Fritos’ with Mixed Vegetables & Sausages. Of course they also made a ‘Kosher Chicken Soup with ‘ Metzo’ Balls’ ( a ‘ Thea ‘ special ! )

Michael Portillo’s “ Great Continental Railway Journeys “  was this week over in Morocco, he travelled across on the fast ferry from Tarifa to Tangier, Morocco was very impressive, as he visited Fez, Rabat, Casablanca & Marrakech, all by train on spectacular routes, as he was leaving Tangier they showed six brand new high speed ( 320 kms per hour )  ‘ French Train Sets’ waiting to go into service on the newly built track to Casablanca, it’s not due to open until 2018?! Finally we watched ‘ Later Live ... with Jools Holland ‘ with his usual ‘eclectic’ mix of music.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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