A WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON WEDNESDAY;

WEDNESDAY 4^th/ JANUARY 2017.

No lie in this morning as ‘ Reina’ was being dropped off first thing, she shot into her duvet and we then got ourselves ready, I took ‘ Charlie’ for his walk and then we had breakfast ‘ Smoked Bacon Butties’ with mugs of steaming tea, Brenda then shot off down to the surgery for her appointment with our Doctor, Natalia, for her first check-up/review of the year, meanwhile back in the office/studio I went on the ‘WWW’

Yesterday I confirmed my appointment/review with the ‘ Prostrate Consultant ‘ after my special X-Ray, both in February, across at the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ Hospital in Marbella. Brenda has just returned, her blood readings etc are better, she is still waiting for an appointment with the ‘Kidney Consultant’ for a review, now she’s also going back to see the ‘Heart Consultant’ for a check-up/review with her ‘Arrhythmia’ readings.

With all these appointment’s we need a ‘ Private Secretary ‘ to keep our appointments diary up to date, as well as the bookings in ‘ Doggy World Heaven’! I use a colour coding system!!

Just one major problem now, our local ‘ Chemists ‘ would not give Brenda her prescriptions,  without her lost ‘Green Card’ – our Doctor didn’t give her the right documents, so Brenda set off back to the surgery, walking again, by the time I got to the Chemists she had left, I was very concerned as she should not walk so far again, I got a lift on the back of Juan’s ( Bar Castillo)  scooter to go and make sure she was OK!! She ended up with more documents and we went back to the Chemists again, they were still not the correct forms/details?! Lumy has now taken her back, again, to the surgery, in her car to hopefully sort the problem out, ‘Spanish Bureaucracy ‘ at its worst!! Our Doctor, Natalia’ is adamant that all the paperwork is correct, she has told Brenda to go to another Chemists, so Lumy is going to try over in Estepona, later! Watch this space.

This morning on ‘Castle Radio FM 89.2’ on Andrew Charles ‘Live’ Breakfast Show he played a request for ‘ Sir ‘ Malcolm & ‘ Lady ‘ Brenda up in sunny Manilva, he introduced it with my personal ‘ Fanfare ’ – a track by Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa, he’s confirmed that I will be back on air ‘ Live’ by the end of the month, with my show, watch this space.

We have another glorious day here in sunny Manilva, the sky is blue, the sun is out and there is no breeze, by this afternoon it will reach 21 degs! The rest of the week and over the weekend is staying the same but a little cooler, watch this space.

This evenings supper is ‘ Grilled Gammon Steaks ‘ with Glazed Fresh Pineapple and then topped with a Fried Egg! Garden Peas & twice-cooked ‘ Frits’- ‘HP’ Brown Sauce on the side. Tomorrow evening we are having ‘ Lob Scouse ‘ that I made last week with Cabbage with Acelgas and Pickled Red Beetroot, a ‘ Fish’ supper is called for on Friday and then on Saturday it’s still ‘ TBC’- watch this space.

Tomorrow evening the ‘ Three Kings ‘ parade is in the village along ‘ Calle Mar’ - after it’s been through Sabinillas and Castillo de la Duquesa – the floats with Balthsar, Melchoir & Gaspar are led by bands, they all throw ‘ Caramelos – Sweets ’ to the children, who catch them in upturned umbrellas!  I collected our traditional ‘ Roscon De Reyes ‘ cake from the  local ‘Bakery’ shop at lunchtime, it contains a small ‘ Figurine’ of the ‘Baby Jesus’  to be blessed and for good luck- see the picture below of our cake. The actual ‘ Dia de Reyes ‘ is on Friday ‘ Epiphany’ Bank Holiday, so I’m going down to Sabinillas on Thursday morning for the weekly shopping.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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