WEDNESDAY 26th/ OCTOBER 2016.
Another early rise this morning to see ‘
Reina’ here for the day, after a short lie, in we took ‘ Pax’ out for his first
walk of the day, we went around the bottom of the village, when we returned we
had a little treat of ‘ Smoked Bacon Butties ‘ with HP Sauce! ‘Reina’ is still
on her carrot diet, ‘ Pax ‘ is eating everything we give him on his dry
biscuits along with his ‘ treats’
I then made this evenings supper ‘ Beef
& Mushroom Curry ‘ – the diced Beef is tossed in curry flavoured flour and
browned off, I sweat off the diced Onions, Garlic, whole Baby Mushrooms & diced
Apple before adding the secret ingredients and five different curry powders
& Tomato Frito, with the juice of a whole Lime, the Beef is then added to
the pan and topped up with a strong Beef & Vegetable Stock, finally I add
some different curry pastes and Desiccated Coconut, to taste, and then leave
the pan to cook off under the very able ‘ eye’ of the ‘Second Chef’- who skims
as required! The ‘ aromas’ are wafting through the house and up the street! It
will be served on ‘ Basmati Rice’ - cooked to perfection’ by the ‘ Second Chef ‘
this evening.
Overnight it was very mild, again, 19 degs,
there is no breeze and this morning the sun is just breaking through, we are in
for a nice, warm, day reaching the ‘ heady heights’ of 27 degs! Over the next
couple of days and into the weekend its going a little cooler, as the ‘Levante’
wind blows in, but still staying in the
mid 20s, no rain on the horizon, for now.
See the picture below of the sunrise this
morning coming up over the ‘ ‘Casares Costa’ beach just past next to Sabinillas,
which is soon be connected across the ‘River Manilva’ by a new footpath bridge.
Last night after supper we watched ‘ Great
Continental Railway Journeys’ with Michael Portillo, this week in Holland, he
was in The Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Delf, Haarlem, & Utrect, at one
point he visited the beach resort of ‘ Scheveningen’ – I stayed there, it brought
back memories when I was 7 and I was with my Mum & Dad on one of our first
foreign holidays that I have talked about in the past! We visited all the
places on the train also!
He had a special meal in a restaurant of
the ‘Dutch’ classic ‘ Sumatra/West Indies Banquet’ – a “ Rijsttafel’ ( Rice
Table ) – over 47 years ago at the ‘Bridge
Inn’ in Port Sunlight’ when I was the ‘live in’ Assistant Manager working for
Jane’s dad, Bert Horsley, who was the Manager, we had a ‘Dutch Head Chef’ who
used to prepare the banquet, for special customers from Unilever, the multi-national Anglo/ Dutch Food Company, who
owned the ‘ Tied Village’ It consists of many ( forty is not an unusual number)
side dishes served in small portions including several different Rices, Egg
Rolls, Sambals, Satay, Fish, Fruit, Vegetables, Pickles& Nuts etc! Happy
Memories!!
Then it was time for ‘ Later with Jools Holland ‘ – this week it
was the usual eclectic mix of music, more memories, as it featured ‘ Anouska
Shankar’ the daughter of the late Ravi Shankar, the world famous ‘ Sitar’
player, she learned to play the ‘Sitar’ from the age of 7 and is now the World’s
leading modern ‘Sitar’ player, she is the half-sister of singer Norah Jones, Ravi’s other daughter;
back in 1966 when I was the Manager of the ‘ Stork Hotel’ in Liverpool he
stayed at the hotel with his ‘ Entourage’ as he was performing at the ‘Royal
Philharmonic Hall’- it was all arranged by the ‘ Beatles’ who were just
entering their ‘Indian Maraeshi’ time of life!
See below a picture of Liverpool's waterfront & The
River Mersey this morning.
They all came to see him at the hotel, he
stayed on the third floor/front rooms and his followers used to cook all their food
on ‘ Primus Stoves’ I went to the concert as a guest and this is how I was into
the ‘ Sitar’ from an early age, the ‘Beatles’ knew the hotel from earlier in
1965 when Paul McCartneys brother. Mike McGear, of the comedy, poetry &
music trio ‘The Scaffold’ held his wedding reception at the hotel, I looked
after them and on many other occasions during the mid 60s!
Not a lot of people know this, they do
now!!
Thoughts for the Day; See above.
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