TUESDAY 22nd/ NOVEMBER 2016.
We were up early this morning and after a
quick freshen up we shot off out on our travels; we stopped at the local garage
at the bottom of the hill to top up the petrol, I was then time to go along the
coast road past a stormy/rough ‘Mediterranean’ on our way to the Hospital just
past Marbella, Brenda appointment was at 10-00am for her second ‘Kidney Ecogram’
– the Hospital was very busy but she went in on time, we then came back along
the coast past Sabinillas and carried on to ‘Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro’ next to
Sotogrande to ‘Iceland
’
We didn’t call into ‘ Leroy Merlin’ as they
had sold out of Oil Heaters, Daniela had seen one in a ‘Ferraterias’ next door
to ‘Iceland’ yesterday evening, we shot in and got the last one! We then did
our ‘Xmas’ shopping etc for all the English essentials, we then came back up the
hill around the 3/4 hairpin bends through the vine fields to a very overcast
sunny Manilva, the new Council, with the Mayor, Mario, have been out this
morning checking the road and bends out as they are proposing to widen the road
for bicycles/cars?! Watch this space.
Overnight we have had very heavy rain
storms along with thunder & lightening, this morning it was raining as we
set off and the coast road was flooded in places and rather dangerous, it’s
still overcast & grey with more showers on the way, it’s the tail-end of
the Atlantic storm ‘ Angus’ that is hitting the UK at the moment, tomorrow
could be a little dryer but the wet stuff will be back and the weekend is sadly
not looking good for our friend Gillian’s visit from Torquay.
One bit of good news is that I’ve managed
to book a table for our ‘Sunday Roast Lunch’ at one of old favourite restaurants
from when we first arrived down on the ‘ Costa Del Sol all those years ago, ‘The
Beach House’ at Elviria on the coast on the far side of Marbella, it’s their ‘
Ultimate Sunday Lunch’ as they are then closed for a month for the annual staff
holidays! They have ‘ live music’ so the place will be bouncing, the last time
we were there was with Tim & Thea & friends for the ‘ Sunday Roast’ - I
ended up leading the dancing as the singer & guitarist was our old friend,
Vidal, brother, Felix!
PS; Still no sign or sightings of the ‘
Moffatt’s’ and their motor home – are they still here or on their way
home?! The forecast for North Wales this
morning, which is on ‘ Yellow ‘ alert is for storm force gales and very heavy
rain ( 2 inches!)
PPS; We are getting reports that they have been spotted in Cartagena' today!!
PPS; We are getting reports that they have been spotted in Cartagena' today!!
See
below the ‘Colwyn Bay’ promenade this morning!
For our supper this evening we are having “
Grilled ‘ Chuletas de Cordero’ – Lamb Cutlets/Chops “ which I have marinated in
Olive Oil & Rosemary, Salt & Pepper, from our ‘Iceland’ shopping we are
having ‘ Sugar Snap’ Peas & Baby New ‘ Herb’ Potatoes in their skins, with
a sauceboat of my famous ‘ Tomato Salsa’ and Mint sauce on the side.
Tomorrow evening Lee is joining us for
supper as Daniela has gone away on business to London for a week, I’m making ‘
Braised Steak & Onions’ with Brenda’s famous ‘ Mashed Potato’ and a lovely
Savoy Cabbage ( Iceland)
Yesterday afternoon/evening we had one of
our ‘Quiz’ days, ‘ Pointless, Eggheads, University Challenge, & Only
Connect’ – then over on BBC 1 we caught a very good two-part documentary ‘ The
Last Miners’ - showing the last few
weeks of the 450 miners, before being made redundant, from the last deep coal
mine in Britain, the ‘ Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire. They drop down
over 800 metres below ground before taking a small ‘ paddy’ train for four
miles to the coalface, the temperature rises to 33 degs+ - a very hostile and
dangerous environment to work in, but their ‘ black’ humour is never far from the
surface!
The scenes in the Colliery showers as they
wash each over down was very moving, the comradeship and dedication is unbelievable,
they are ‘ real men’ who have worked down the mines all their lives, they still
aim to beat records, they also bemoan the loss of all the coal fields and can’t
understand why Germany is being allowed to build new coal-fired power stations and
over in China where ‘ Coal is King’ and they have flooded the world markets
with cheap coal?!
Thoughts for the Day; See above.
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