FRIDAY 5th/ APRIL 2019.
I was up early again this morning, the last
time this week, and after a quick freshen up I shot off on my travels, braving
the rain & wind, down to Sabinillas for our weekly shopping, I had my usual
toast & tea in ‘ ItZabar’ before ‘Mercadona’ opened, I then called into the
‘ Morrocan Butchers’ and bought a large ‘Halal Leg of Lamb ‘ for our Sunday
Roast, it was not cheap, but not as much as the ‘English Butchers’!
I then stopped at the ‘English Bookshop’
for the local newspapers before on the way back up the hill, calling into ‘
Super Sol’ for the ‘English’ essentials, it was then time to come back up the
three u-turn bends, through the vine fields, the roads this morning are very
slippery as it’s the first proper rain that we have had in over six months and
all the ‘ rubber’ has not yet been washed away, you can’t brake or accelerate
on the corners.
See below a picture of the vine leaves starting to
appear, taken yesterday.
Meanwhile back at the house Brenda had
taken ‘ Scruffy’ out for his first walk of the day, he’s very good and slept
all night on his bed, she tried to beat the rain, but they were both caught and
had come back like drowned rats! I know how they feel as I was also caught in
the heavy rain and ended up wet-through! He’s due to be collected later today, he’s
then back on Monday for another sleep-over. He’s at my feet as I’m
typing/posting today’s Blog, as usual.
The rain started during the night and on
all the forecasts it looks like we are in for a pro-longed ‘ wet-spell’ over
nearly two weeks!! The breeze is getting up and we are having moderate to heavy
rain storms, all the time, hovering in the mid ‘ teens’ around the 15/16 degs
mark, down at night to 8/9 degs! ‘Fingers’ crossed that it clears for the ‘
Semana Santa ‘ week of religious celebrations starting on ‘ Palm Sunday’ Watch this space.
See below pictures of the ‘ Conwy Tea House’
– “ Tu Hwnt I’r Bont “ in Llanrwst, North Wales in Autumn and now!
This afternoon we will be watching the
National Hunt Racing from the ‘ Grand National Meeting’ at Aintree on day two ‘Ladies
Day’ – when the ‘ Liverpool Girls’ come out in their finest! Sadly it’s also
very wet & windy over there!
For our supper this evening we are having ‘
Goujons of Hake Fillet’ – coated in breadcrumbs from the local Bakery, shallow
fried in Vegetable Oil until crisp & golden, served with a ‘ Homemade’
Tartar sauce and lots of Lemon Wedges, accompanied with Mushy Peas and of
course twice-cooked ‘ Chips’ On Saturday it’s going to be a large ‘Grilled Rib
of Beef’ - on the bone, with all the trimmings.( more ‘ Frits!) Then on Sunday
the ‘Roast Halal Leg of Lamb’ with ‘Boulangere’ Potatoes.
See below a picture of the Rib of ‘Sashi ‘
Beef – ‘ Ayrshire Finnish Breed’ that they are serving at ‘Restaurante
Sarmiento ‘ up in Casares at the moment! Ours looks the same!! ‘ Honest ‘ !!
When we had lunch last year in October,
with Sandra & Bill, at the restaurant, Bill and I had the ‘ House Burgers’
made with the same Beef!
This evening we will be channel hopping to
find something to watch, last night we caught a very interesting documentary on
the ‘ McVities Carr Biscuit ‘ Factory in Carlisle, the largest biscuit factory
in the World! This morning I bought in ‘ Super Sol’ a packet of the famous ‘
Ginger Nuts’ - which don’t contain any ‘
nuts’ – the name came from them being know originally as ‘hard as nuts’ ! I also bought a packet of the
‘ Crunchy Custard Creams ‘ – the ladies who work in the factory are known as ‘
Cracker Packers ‘ – as they pack the ‘
Carr’s Water Biscuits’ - not a lot of people know that, they do now!
See the picture below of the ‘ Custard
Creams’
Thoughts for the Day; See above.
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