SATURDAY 17th/ AUGUST 2019.
I was up very early this morning and after
a quick freshen up I shot off on my travels, through the sea mist, down to
Sabinillas for our weekly shopping, I called into ‘ItZabar’ for my toast &
tea, then walked along to ‘ Mercadona’ where it was everyman for himself, very
busy, the shelves being topped up all the time, all 17 check-outs in operation.
I then popped along to the ‘ English
Bookshop’ for the local newspapers, we picked up the fresh flowers, from the market
at the far-end of the promenade yesterday morning, on our way to the hospital, so
it was then time to shoot back up the hill, through the vine fields, still
overcast & misty, to unload back at the house.
Back at the house Brenda took ‘ Chico’ out
for his first walk of the day, in the ‘ damp’ sea mist, around the bottom of
the village, tomorrow evening ‘ Pucci’ is arriving for his weeks holiday, with
us in ‘Doggy World Heaven’ – on Monday/Tuesday little ‘ Miss Bella’ is back
with all of us for the day. Watch this space.
The sun is attempting to break through and
the sky is slowly clearing, by lunchtime it due to reach 29 degs+ - with a
light breeze, coming up off the Mediterranean (Lavente) – tomorrow shooting up
to 34 degs+ - next week it’s starting hot & sunny, then from Wednesday
onwards as the breeze stiffens, it’s dropping to the mid/high 20s, - with the chance of the ‘ wet-stuff’ on one of
the forecast, still overnight hovering on the 20 degs mark, for now, watch this
space.
See below two aerial pictures of Liverpool,
the old one from 1940, just after the ‘ Blitz’ taken from a plane and the new one taken
from a ‘ drone’ yesterday!
Over the past two weeks we have had our
regular ‘Pension/Annuities’ arriving in our ‘Spanish’ Bank Account along with
some transfers from our ‘English’ Bank Account, sadly at the moment the ‘Euro’ is
at its lowest against the ‘Pound’ in over 10 years at 1-052, meaning that we are
now getting “1 Euro for 1 Pound “! We are down nearly 50% - which equates to
nearly 550 Euro’s per month!! Watch this
space.
On the sports front this weekend it’s the
return of ‘La Liga’ over here in Spain, yesterday evening it kicked off with
Athletic Bilbalo v Barcelona, it was on in all the bars along ‘Calle Mar’ - as
we were out for our ‘Tapas’ supper, sadly Barcelona lost 0-1 in the 89th
minute, when a substitute came on and scored a sublime winner, with his first
kick of the game, with a spectacular overhead scissor-kick! All of sunny
Manilva support Real Madrid, so they let me know, as I’m the only Barcelona
supporter in the village!! Today Real Madrid travel to Celta Vigo.
Over in the ‘ Premiere League’ Everton are
at home to Watford and Manchester City welcome Tottenham Hotspur, meanwhile
Liverpool travel down to play Southampton, with their two goalkeepers injured?!
This afternoon in the ‘ Rugby Union World
Cup’ warm-up games, England travel down to Cardiff to play
Wales.
The Horse Racing is from Newbury.
This
evening for our supper we are having ‘ Turkey Brochettes’ ( Mercadona ) which I add Shallot Onions &
Mushrooms to, accompanied with a pool of Tomato sauce, with Whole ‘ French’
Baby Green Beans and Baby New Potatoes in their skins, tomorrow evening, for a
change we are having ‘Chicken Empanadas’ ( Mercadona again!) – flattened ‘Chicken
Breast’ coated in savoury breadcrumbs, then shallow fried in Vegetable Oil until
crisp & golden! ( Lots of Lemon Wedges!)
After supper we will settle down, keeping
as cool as possible, to watch the TV, channel hopping to find a good film to
watch.
Thoughts for the Day; See above.
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