Monday, July 08, 2019

A VERY WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON MONDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEK.


MONDAY 8th/ JULY 2019.




































Brenda was up, first, early this morning to welcome back little ‘ Miss Bella’ with a rather nice surprise, Leah with her young son ‘Deemy’ ( 11 years old ) – she had sent us a ‘ Facebook’ message, asking us if we could look after him, with his broken arm, as his dad, Ryan was flying back from the UK at lunchtime, Leah works in Gibraltar, two days a week, it’s not a problem, he’s a lovely young man, the only technical hitch was that his ‘IPad’ would not connect to our system! We are working on the problem, watch this space.

It’s a small World, Ryan is from Abergele, North Wales, which we know very well, as our house was just up the valley, behind the town, in Rhyd-y Foel - ‘Deemy’ ( a ‘Welch’ name)  went to primary school in the town, where they lived.


‘Scruffy’ spent the night under the bed on the marble floor, he & ‘Bella’ are getting on, ‘Bella’ is very excited and charging around playing, Scruffy is just sitting watching! He will be picked up later this afternoon, he’s back with us everyday up to Friday, ‘Bella’ is back in the morning.










Just a very basic freshen up this morning as we have no water, the whole village is off as the main pump into the village has burst! We had our usual fresh fruit, toast & tea for breakfast.


PS; It came back on at 3-00 pm !



Yesterday afternoon the breeze picked up and during the night all the shutters on the house’s were rattling, it’s dropped a little this morning, the sun is out and the sky is blue & cloudless, by lunchtime it’s due to reach 28 degs+ - going hotter tomorrow, then, now dropping back a little, as the breeze picks up, hovering in the high 20s, but by Sunday back up to 33 degs+! – next week is now going to be a ‘ Scorcher’ – watch this space.












See below pictures showing ‘ Church Alley’ –of ‘ Church Street ‘ in Liverpool city centre, with the ‘ Athenaeum Club’ on the right, founded in 1797, as a ‘Gentleman’s Club’ – the members, now both men & women are known as’ Proprietors’ – at the top end of the ‘Alley’ is the “ The Bluecoat Chambers “ – built in 1716, as a charity school, the oldest surviving building in central Liverpool.



















PS; The last time I was in the ' Bluecoat Chambers ' was with my dad, ' Tommy' Sexton - as a young 7 year old, he took me to see a ' Model Railway ' exhibition, as I had a large Model Railway ' Hornby OO Gauge ' system/track in my bedroom, in fact the bed was in the middle of it! " Happy Memories " 




See below ' Hobbies Toy Shop ' in Liverpool, back in the late 50s, where he bought all the trains & tracks, until in the mid 60s, when we went around Europe on our travels with my mum, Muriel, Eileen Sexton! He bought different trains/track/systems and added them into the large layout!!
















On the sports front today; over at Wimbledon it’s the start of the second week, last night USA beat Holland 2-0 to win the ‘ Fifa Women s World Cup’ – for the second time in succession!















This afternoon the 3rd Stage of the ‘ Tour de France ‘ over 211 kms,  goes from Binche to Epernay, in the heart of the ‘ Champagne’ region!
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This evening for our supper we are having the rest of the sliced, cold ‘Poached Chicken’ with some ‘ triple-cooked ‘ Chips’ & Mayonnaise! The menu’s for the rest of the week are still one day at the time, watch this space.










Yesterday evening after supper we watched the final episode of “ Gentleman Jack “ as the two Anne’s, were finally reunited!  There is going to be another series later in the year.












We are still taking things very easy, basically doing nothing, because we can, relaxing, keeping as cool as possible, drinking lots of cold water, with all the fans on, taking little ‘ Siestas’ all the time, my right leg is clearing but my left arm, which looks a lot better, is still giving me lots of ‘Jip’ – I can’t put it down or bare to have it touched! I’m making an appointment to see our Doctor, Natalia, later in the week, Brenda is feeling a little better as her ‘ waterworks’ problem has eased off, watch this space.
























Thoughts for the Day;  See above.




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