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

MONDAY 17^th/ FEBRUARY 2020.

I was up early this morning to welcome back little ‘ Miss Bella’ for the day, she is back tomorrow also, she as usual shot upstairs onto our bed, ‘ Chico’ stayed on his duvet after sleeping all night, he goes to bed when we do and doesn’t move until we get up, he’s with us all this week and next, after freshening up we took them both out for their first walk of the day around the bottom of the village.

When we returned, as I was on the breakfast rota, youv’e guessed, I had my favourite ‘ Toasted Crispy Smoked Bacon Butty’ – smothered in ‘ HP’ Brown sauce – open on brown for Brenda, with some of her favourite seared sliced Baby Mushrooms, cooked in the bacon juices with a knob of butter, a few of which made into my butty! Mugs of strong/hot ‘PG’ Tips Tea helped to wash them down at the start of another ‘ Helluva’ week down here on the ‘ Costa Del Sol ‘ in sunny Manilva.

I then rang ‘ Movistar ‘ to cancel our contract with them, and obtain a ‘Code/Ref No’  - thanks to our friend Josie, who wrote down all the details of how to join ‘ OliveNet’ and leave ‘Movistar’! I then shot down to the ‘ Movistar’ office in Sabinillas to hand in the old router and finish all the paperwork, ‘Fingers-Crossed ‘ that we are nearly finished, our ‘Landline’ number, which we are keeping is still not back online, it takes a few days to re-set, my Mobile no - which is with ‘ Movistar’ also will stay the same, I will change it to ‘Pay As Go’ ( Lycra) in the next few days. Watch this space.

Tomorrow morning Brenda is going down on the local bus ( 9-30 am)  to Sabinillas as she has an appointment with her hairdresser Annie, for a shampoo, cut & style, as usual on Friday morning I will be out on my travels, down to Sabinillas for our weekly shopping etc!

We have yet another beautiful start to the day and week, here in sunny Manilva, the sun was out first thing and the sky is cloudless and blue, with just a slight breeze, so by lunchtime it’s due to reach 20/21 degs+ - overnight down to 11/12 degs+ - tomorrow, as the next colder, wet & windy ‘ Atlantic’ front comes in, we are in for a few days of unsettled weather, with some of the ‘Wet-Stuff’ as well as going a little cooler, as the breeze stiffens, then we are back to a spell of warm and sunny weather, with a few clouds at times, but staying dry & settled, hovering in the high ‘ teens’ – by next Tuesday back up to 21 degs+  - warmer and sunny, watch this space.

For our supper this evening we are having ‘Escalope’s of Pork Fillet  Schnitzels style ‘ – flattened and coated in Breadcrumbs, from the local Bakery, then shallow fried in Vegetables Oil until crisp & golden, served with lots of Lemon Wedges, garnished with Anchovy Fillets Capers and a ‘ Campo’ Fried Egg – ‘ Holstein style’ – accompanied with finely sliced ‘ French ‘ Green Beans and ‘ Spaghetti Milanese’ ( tossed in a rich Tomato salsa with strips of Smoked Ham)

On Tuesday it’s going to be ‘ Posh Chicken N’ Chips’  - Wednesday Brenda has requested ‘Pan- Seared Entrecote Beef Slices’ – garnished with a Mixed Pepper ( Red, Green & Yellow ) ‘ Stir/Fry. Thursday will be a find something in the deep-freeze day, Friday it’s going to be ‘ Fish N’ Chips’ with Mushy Peas, on Saturday our usual ‘ Steak Night and then finally on Sunday we will be ‘ Roasting’!

Yesterday evening after supper we watched, for the first time ever, over on ‘ Channel 4’ – the American spy thriller “ Homeland’ which is now into series ‘8’ – starring Claire Danes as a ‘ Central Intelligence Officer ( CIA ) – very gripping and exciting, we must watch it again. 

This afternoon/ evening we will be catching up with all the ‘ Quiz Shows’ that we follow and then after supper it’s the final episode, of the current series, of the award winning ‘ Cold Feet ‘ – will it return – watch this space.

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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