WEDNESDAY 11th/ MARCH 2020.
I was up early again this morning to see
little ‘ Miss Bella’ back with us for the day, she’s also back tomorrow, ‘ Lolo’ as usual slept all night, before we
took them both out for their first walk of the day, sadly ‘ Scruffy’ is now not
joining us for a sleep-over as Adrian’s appointment at the ‘ Costa Del Sol
Hospital ‘ has been cancelled due to the ‘ Coronavirus ‘ problems, now down
here in Spain!
Yesterday lunchtime when we were sat
outside ‘ Bar Castillo’ for a nice cool drink, a Spanish lady ( not local ) with
her husband, sat on the other side of the street, started coughing and blowing
her nose, it went on for a while and got worse, she made no move to walk away,
so as it was so bad Juan, came out and asked her to move on! We were getting a
little uncomfortable to say the least, as we are in the ‘ high-risk’ category,
along with all ‘Pensioners’ in the village! Watch this space.
It’s yet another beautiful day here in
sunny Manilva, the sun broke through first thing and the sky is cloudless &
blue, there is just a slight ‘ Fresh’ breeze so by lunchtime it’s forecast to reach
21 degs+ - overnight down to 13/14 degs, so it’s going to be another warm &
sunny day, tomorrow and up to and including Saturday it’s staying the same, then
sadly on Sunday, the latest wet, cold & windy ‘ Atlantic’ front is due to
hit us! All of next week is now looking a lot colder, hovering in the mid ‘
teens’ - down to 13/14 degs by next Wednesday, with lots of the ‘ Wet-Stuff’
around, as well as the wind picking up, watch this space.
When we returned from our walk, as I was on
the breakfast rota, youv’e guessed all ready, I had a ‘ Toasted Crispy Smoked
Bacon Butty ‘ – smothered in ‘HP’ Brown sauce, - open on brown for Brenda with
some of her favourite sliced Baby Mushrooms seared in the bacon juices with a
knob of butter, some of which it made it onto my butty, with mugs of hot/strong tea to set us up for
the day ahead!
I then got this evenings supper on the go; my
famous “ Chicken & Mushroom Curry “ ( fruity- med hot) – first tossing the diced Thigh, Leg &
Breast of Chicken in curry flavoured flour before browning it off, at the same
time I make the sauce, sweating off the diced Onions & Shallots with
Garlic, with a large dash of ‘Lea & Perrins & Tabasco’ – before adding
the diced ‘ Fuji’ Apple, diced Pineapple and the Baby Mushrooms (both tinned) along with various Curry Powders ( now
8!) as well as a large spoon of ‘Tomato Fito’ - before adding a rich ‘ Chicken
& Vegetable’ stock, as well as various ‘Curry’ pastes (5) & ‘Chutney’ and
the juice of a large Lime, not forgetting the Desiccated Coconut, finally
adding all the browned-off Chicken, and left to cook-off under the able ‘eye’
of the Second Chef’! The aroma’s are wafting upstairs to the office/studio and
also outside up the street, the ‘ Manilva Curry House ‘ is open!
Our dear friends Andy & Brian are
joining us for supper, so we are having to start some light ‘Tapas’ – the ‘
Curry’ will be served with Brenda’s famous ‘ Basmati Rice’ – with Garden Peas
and sliced Banana, for the dessert either or both, ‘Apple Tort/Chocolate
Eclairs’! All served with ‘ Chilled Beers ‘ !!
Meanwhile over in Liverpool yesterday at
the Pier Head the “ MS Saga Sapphire “ was berthed for the day, this morning
the “ MS Fridtjof Nansen’ arrived, also for the day. See below.
This afternoon we will be watching the ‘
National Hunt Racing ‘ on ‘ Ladies Day’ from the ‘ Cheltenham Festival ‘
Thoughts for the Day; See above.
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