A ' CRISP' & SUNNY MANILVA ON ' THIRSTY' THURSDAY.

THURSDAY 16^th/ JANUARY 2020.

We had a nice, long, lie in this morning, in fact we overslept!  Brenda didn’t have a good night’s sleep and so we stayed wrapped up under the duvet!!  After freshening up as I was on the breakfast rota I had my favourite ‘ Toasted Crispy Smoked Bacon Butty’ – smothered in ‘ HP’ Brown sauce, just brown toast for Brenda as she is not feeling at her best, with mugs of hot/strong tea to set us up for the day ahead.

Yesterday afternoon we had a call from Lucy, ‘ Chico’s’ mum, it’s her 40^th birthday in February so she is going to the ‘USA’ with her husband, for two weeks, they are dropping off their baby son, Albert, with her parents, over in the ‘UK’ - when they return, he going into the ‘Great Ormond Street Hospital’ for a eye operation, so it will be another week or two before they come home, so ‘ Chico’ is going to be with us in ‘Doggy World Heaven’ for 3/4 weeks, from around the 15^th, he’s a lovely, friendly dog and easy to look after and great company!

The sun was out first thing this morning after a brilliant sunrise over the Mediterranean, the sky has now cleared and is cloudless and bright blue, there is only a very slight breeze so by lunchtime it will reach 18 degs+ -still overnight dropping down to 8/9 degs, tomorrow and over the weekend it’s now staying the same, warm & sunny, only going a little cooler as the breeze stiffens.

Next week, from Monday, when the next wet, windy & cold ‘ Atlantic’ front now comes in, it’s going cooler, down to the mid ‘teens’ with moderate to heavy ‘RAIN’ at times, with patchy clouds and sunny periods, but not as cold as forecast! Watch this space.

At lunchtime we went for a walk along ' Calle Mar' to the local Bank for some cash from the machine, on the way back we stopped outside a new entrance ,which was being plastered, in-between 'Cafe Plaza' and the new 'Barbers'shop, we had heard a rumour that it was going to be a new Bar, the rumour is true, it has a large bar & kitchen, with wood flooring, the walls and ceiling have all the wiring, but there is still a lot to finish, sadly with no view over the mountains, unlike ' Cafe Plaza's'!

We spoke to the owner and asked for the name of the Bar?! No name yet was his reply!  'Cafe Plaza' must be fuming as it's right next door to them, watch this space, later this year!




PS; On the way back we stopped at 'Bar Castillo' and sat outside the hot sunshine for a nice cool drink, while we took in the sights & sounds of sunny Manilva, as the World passed us by! 

For our supper this evening we are having the rest of the ‘ Beef & Vegetable Stew with Crusty Dumplings’ with the left-over vegetables & potatoes, on Friday it will be a ‘ Fish’ supper, depending on the local market selection in ‘Mercadona’ – Saturday is our usual ‘ Steak Night’ and then on Sunday it’s our first ‘ Roast’ of the new year – ‘ Roast Chicken’ with all the trimmings! 

Last night after supper we settled down to watch the second part of this week’s ‘ Silent Witness’ which was very gripping, with a surprise ending, tonight we will catch the next episode of ‘Death in Paradise’ with Ardal O’Hanion, in the main role, as the ‘Detective Inspector’ on the fictional Caribbean island of ‘ Saint Marie’

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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