FRIDAY 31st/ JANUARY 2020.
We were both up very early this morning as Brenda
decided to join me on my travels, after a quick freshen up we shot off, down to
Sabinillas before the sunrise, over the Mediterranean, our first port of call
was into the main ‘ Medical Centre’ to book our appointments, with our ‘Doctor’
next week, sadly they have changed the procedure, you can now only book on the
morning of the day that you require! Watch this space.
We then went along to the ‘ Nautilus
Cafeteria Gastro Bar ‘ for our morning cafe & tostado, before ‘ Mercadona’
opened, as sadly Kevin, from ‘ItZabar’ has closed and retired! Brenda popped
along to the ‘ English Bookshop’ for the local newspapers and a birthday card,
then came back to do the fruit & vegetable shopping, while I was doing the
rest of our weekly shopping. It was then time to go down to the ‘Puerto de la
Duquesa Marina’ to the ‘English Butchers’ to stock up with their Homemade Pork
Sausages, Gammon Steaks and a boned & rolled joint of ‘
Leg of Pork’ for our Sunday Roast!
Finally we came back along to the far-end
of the promenade in Sabinillas to the local market for our fresh flowers &
wall plants. We came back up the hill around the three hairpin bends into the
village to unload back at the house, I then put the car away in the underground
car park beneath the Police Station.
Next week in ‘ Doggy World Heaven’ we had
little ‘Miss Bella’ with us on Monday & Tuesday, in the middle of February ‘
Chico’ is back with us for a month’s holiday!
On Monday/Tuesday I’m going to pop across
the Estepona, to hand in the documents to the family ‘ Lawyers’ for the annual
contact negotiations for the house. We will book our appointments next
Wednesday morning, to see our Doctor, Brenda
was going to her Hairdresser, Annie, on Thursday but she is away for the week, we
are going out on Friday evening with our friends from Brighton, Kevin &
Caroline, as they are over for a few days, at their apartment on Sabinillas, as
they are having bathroom make-over, it also happens to be Kevin ‘Birthday’ on
Friday, so I’m going to book a table at ‘ La Finca Thai Fusion’ – after they
re-open tomorrow, as it’s their ‘ Music Night’!
The sky was red this morning before the sun
broke through and the clouds cleared away, as there was a light breeze, so by
lunchtime it’s due to reach 20 degs+ - over night down to 11/12 degs, going a
little warmer tomorrow, staying the same on Sunday, warm & sunny with a few
patchy clouds, next week is now looking dry & settled, with sunshine,
hovering in the high ‘ teens’ – up to 22 degs+ sometimes, watch this space.
For our supper this evening we are having
for a change, an old classic, from back in the restaurant scene in Liverpool in
the mid 60s, as the ‘Italian Trattorias’ opened, ie; ‘La Bussola’ in Bold
Street, where I was ‘Assistant Manger’ in the evenings! My recipe of “ Scampi Provencale “ is made
with finally diced Onion, Shallots & lots of Garlic, sweated off with a
dash of ‘Lea & Perrins and Tabasco’ along with a good glug of ‘White Wine’
before adding a spoon of Tomato Frito and the Plum Tomato ‘Concasse’ ( skinned,
peeled, seeded & chopped!) The ‘ Scampi’ are added after the sauce has
cooked-off, when they are then lightly cooked, it’s served on a bed of Brenda’s
famous ‘ Basmati Rice’ with finely sliced ‘French’ Green Beans on the side.
See below;
After supper this evening we will settled
down to catch up with all the news, especially about the ‘ Coronavirus’
outbreak as they are taking the ‘British’ evacuees, after landing, 180 miles up
to the ‘ Arrow Park Hospital’ on the Wirral, just around the corner from Jenny!
When Brenda was very young ( 5 yrs ) she was taken there into isolation with ‘Mastoiditis’
and caught ‘Scarlet Fever’!) - meanwhile
down here on the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ the authorities at Malaga Airport have let in
a party of 40+ footballers from’ Wuhan Football Club ‘ ( the centre of the outbreak)
to come down to a hotel in Sotogrande, for ‘ warm winter training’! “
UNBELIEVABLE “
We will then follow the programmes as the ‘
Brexit’ countdown hits midnight on the 21st January 2020 !! We will
have to wait until 31st December 2020, to find out what happens to
us down here in sunny Manilva ( Health
Care & Pensions!) etc, watch this space.
Thoughts for the Day; See above.
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