A VERY COLD & CRISP START TO THE WEEK IN SUNNY MANILVA;

MONDAY 23rd/ JANUARY 2017.

I was up first to welcome little princess ‘ Reina’ back with us for the day, she shot into her Duvet, she’s back with us here in ‘Doggy World Heaven’ for five days this week, we then got ourselves sorted for the week ahead, I shot out before breakfast for one of my prescription tablets from the ‘Chemists’ in Call Mar, I then carried on down to the ‘Butchers’ and bought some  ‘Escalope of Calves Liver’ for this evenings supper. When I returned we had our regular breakfast of Weetabix, toast & tea.

This morning the sun was out early and the sky is now clear and bright blue, it’s still very cold & crisp but by lunchtime it will warm up and this afternoon it will be very pleasant in the sunshine, the week ahead is looking fine & settled, we will find out later what all the details are on the main ‘TVE1’ weather forecast this afternoon, watch this space.

Yesterday Lee & Daniela went for a charity hike up the ‘Sierra Bermeja’ – see the pictures above;

So for our supper this evening we are having ‘ Pan Seared Escalopes of Calves Liver’ dusted in seasoned flour, with crispy Smoked Bacon and seared Onion Rings, a fry-up of the leftover vegetables and a dish of the rest of the ‘Boulangere’ Potatoes; the menu’s for the rest of the week are yet to planned, watch this space.

This morning one of our Pensions has just arrived in our ‘Spanish Bank’ account, the rest come in over the next two weeks, the ‘Euro’ is going up at the moment but sadly not in time for the transfer, it’s the lowest transfer so far, at the same time the ‘ Electricity ‘ charges are going up this month so our next bill will be a lot higher, due also to the usage, we do get a ‘ Pensioners’ 25% discount but we are of course missing the ‘Winter Fuel’ allowance  from the UK Government that the Ex Minister Mr Ian Duncan Smith stopped! If we were living in Belgium or Bulgaria we would get it?

Last night after supper we watched the new four part series on BBC1 “ Apple Tree Yard “ It turned out to be a back alley pockmarked with CCTV cameras! The very watchable Emily Watson is a married research scientist enjoying an upright tryst with a stranger, played by Ben Chaplin, that she first humped in a ‘House of Commons’ broom cupboard earlier! We first met her handcuffed in a security van on her way to court, then in a flashback nine months earlier it all takes pace!!

The stranger is a ‘ Civil Servant’ who is showing signs of being a ‘ Spook’ as she soon realizes, he keeps out of the way of the CCTV cameras and all the ‘ action’ takes place in alley’s/ toilets! The sting at the end of this week’s episode was when she was trapped & raped by an innocent-looking colleague!!

What makes it compelling is Watson, who has a rare talent for wearing her thoughts, fears and joys on her face, while Chaplin adeptly put solid flesh on the bones of a mystery wrapped in an enigma. One to watch!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.