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

MONDAY 30^th/ MARCH 2020.    “ STATE OF ALARM DAY 16 “

Well it’s the start of ‘ Week 3 ‘ in Lockdown’ here in sunny Manilva down on the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ – after freshening up as I was on the breakfast rota we treated myself to a ‘Toasted Crispy Smoked Bacon Butty’ – smothered in ‘HP’ Brown sauce – open on brown for Brenda – with her favourite sliced Baby Mushrooms – seared in the bacon juice with a knob of butter – some of which ended up in my butty also, with mugs of hot/strong tea to start the week in the right direction!

Today has started a little cloudy as the sun starts to break through, there is light breeze and by lunchtime as it clears it’s going to be warm and sunny, reaching 19 degs+ - overnight down to 10 degs+ - sadly as the next windy, wet and cold ‘Atlantic’ front comes in we are in for the rest of the week, up to Friday, being overcast, cloudy with the return of the ‘ Wet-Stuff’ – then over the coming weekend the sunshine will be back in sunny Manilva – hovering in the high ‘ teens’ – watch this space.

“ CORONAVIRUS UPDATE – COVID 19 “ 

Yesterday evening as we were clapping & whistling at 8-00 pm as usual and waving to all our neighbours, at the same time each day, in recognition of all the’ Services’  - along ‘ Calle Mar’ – at the top of our street they all appeared, the ‘Policia Local(2) Civil Protection Ambulance & Fire Brigade’ (2) – all flashing their lights ( blue & yellow) at the same time ringing their horns/bells! The whole village joined in especially all the children, as they stopped and said ‘thank you’! The ‘ Convoy’ went all around the village!! Sorry no pictures as we can't leave the house!! 

During Sunday and everyday all the main streets are washed down and sanitized as you can see below.

From today the ‘National Government’ have imposed stricter confinement measures all over Spain, halting all non-essential activities, as the ‘ Policia Local, Policia National, the Guardia Civil and the Army’ – can enforce the rules with heavier fines & prison sentences!

This evening for our supper we are having a simple ‘ Chicken N’ Chips’ – flattened, seasoned, sliced ‘Breast of Chicken’ – pan-seared on a very hot griddle-plate – then finished with a ‘Lime & Balsamic Vinegar Butter’ salsa, served with finely sliced ‘ French’ Green Beans and triple-cooked ‘ Chips’ – using large & famous  ‘ Sanlucar de Barrameda’ Potatoes, from our local shop down our street!

The ‘ Menus’ for the rest of the week have been agreed, on Tuesday it’s going to be Grilled ‘ Turkey & Pepper Brochettes’ with a savoury Basmati Rice,  then on Wednesday I’m making my famous ‘ Chicken & Mushroom Tarragon Casserole’ – Thursday is going to be a ‘ Leftovers’ Day – as usual on Friday it will be a ‘ Fish Supper’ -  Saturday will be as usual our ‘Steak N’ Frits’ night and then finally on Sunday we are having ‘ Grilled Medallions of Pork Fillet ‘!  “ We will survive “ !!

We are of course watching a lot more TV – we are finding all sorts of different programmes & films as we channel hop each evening, last night we ended up with back to back episodes of ‘Game of Thrones’ – which we have never seen before, meanwhile this morning on ‘ Castle Radio FM & Online on the WWW’ they have joined up with ‘ Heart 104.FM’ as well as live on Facebook and various ‘ Aps’ to broadcast a live ‘LOCKDOWN PARTY’  each morning between 8-00 am to 12 noon, with two ‘DJs’! Watch this space.

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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