FRIDAY 22nd/ NOVEMBER 2019.
We had a nice long lie in this morning, as
Brenda slowly gets herself back on the road to recovery, the tablets &
ointment are helping as well as the ‘ Nursing Care’ on offer! Thanks for the
messages from the family back in the UK and over in a very snowy Canada.
After freshening up we had our usual toast,
with sliced Banana and mugs of hot tea to set us up for the day ahead. Brenda
is doing a little light pottering before taking it easy for the rest of the
day, I’m now up in the office/studio on the ‘WWW’ checking the ‘E-Mail’s,
Facebook’ Messages etc, before reading the online newspapers, ‘ Daily Mail ( the
excellent No 1 online news) El Pais (the main Spanish newspaper in English) - then the ‘ Aljazeera’ News Channel ( World
News ) as well the ‘ BBC News’ service, before reading the local news on the ‘IT’-
I then prepare my ‘post–it’ notes before
typing/posting today’s Blog!
Overnight the new ‘ Atlantic’ front hit us,
it started raining just after mid-night and was still raining earlier this
morning, a moderate to heavy storm with higher winds, it’s very grey &
overcast, with a low cloud base, the breeze has dropped a little, so by
lunchtime it’s due to reach 17 degs+ now!
On Saturday it’s forecast to be dry with
patchy clouds, on most of the local forecasts, as the front moves on, by Sunday
as the next ‘ Atlantic’ front comes in the wind is dropping and next week is
now looking dry, warmer & sunny, hovering in the high ‘ teens’ by next
Thursday/Friday back up to 20 degs+ - still overnight dropping down to 11/12
degs, just about normal for the time of the year, watch this space.
Tomorrow is hopefully going to be dry as I’m
out on my travels, first thing in the morning, instead of today, down in Sabinillas for our
weekly shopping, I’m only going to call in ‘Super Sol’ for our essentials, then
I’m calling into the ‘ Movistar’ shop to chase up a ‘ copy bill’ so as I can
carry on with changing to our new ‘IT’
Router/Fiber Optic connection, to ‘OliveNet’
-as well as our landline update, when I get back up to the village I’m going to
park back in the underground car-park, ‘ Fingers Crossed’ that’s it’s all back
to normal, watch this space.
See below some pictures of Chester, the
World famous ‘ Walled City’ in Cheshire, on the River Dee, close to the border
with Wales, with black & white architecture, the ‘ Rows’ are unique in Britain, they
consist of buildings with shops or dwellings on the lowest two storeys, the
ground floor are often lower than the street and are entered by steps, which
sometimes lead to ‘ crypt-like vaults! The famous ‘Chester Grosvenor Hotel’ -
***** – owned by the ‘ Duke of Westminster’
– is in the heart of the City, where we have ‘spent’ many happy times in the
old ‘ The Arkle Bar ‘ as well in the Parisian style ‘La Brasserie’
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 lots of
Lemon Wedges and Homemade ‘Tartar’ sauce, accompanied with Garden Peas, sadly
still no ‘Mushy Peas’ in stock, and of course triple-cooked ‘ Chips’!
We are taking things very easy today and
over the weekend, keeping warm, relaxing and basically doing nothing, because
we can! Last night we caught the next episode of ‘ Giri Haji ’ on ‘ BBC TV TWO’
– with more gruesome killings over in Tokyo, this time, as the plot un-folded,
I won’t give the game away, watch it to find out what is happening!
Thoughts for the Day; See above.
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