A NOW VERY HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY.

THURSDAY 2^nd/ JULY 2020.    “ NEW NORMALITY – DAY 11 “

We were up early this morning and after a quick freshen, we masked/gloved’ up, and shot down to the ‘ Suma’ supermarket before it got too hot! ‘Thankfully’ there was a fresh ‘Poniente’ breeze, which had picked up over night, coming down from the mountains behind the village!

I then went and got the car from the underground car park and picked Brenda up with all the shopping and took her back to the house to unload, usually we struggle back up the heavy bags, it was then time for our fresh fruit (sliced Banana) toast and tea. Brenda then popped down to our local shop at the bottom of our street for his fresh fruit & vegetables etc.

As I said there is a very pleasant cooling breeze this morning, the sun was out first thing and the sky is blue and cloudless, so by lunchtime it’s due to reach 34/35 degs+ - only going down to 22/23 degs during night time, July and the ‘Sahara Heat Wave’ has arrived, tomorrow will be a little cooler, over the weekend as the breeze stiffens, it will be in the high 20s again, next week is now looking like we are in for more of the same, very hot sunshine, clear blue skies, while hovering in the high 20s, going back up into the low 30s by next Wednesday, the rest of the week staying the same, the following week is going to be another ‘ Hot-One’ – watch this space.

NB; It’s that time of the year, already, for the warning about open fires, from the beaches to the mountains, as you can see in the ‘ Forest Risk Map’ below.

Now for some sad/bad news, yesterday lunchtime our friend Andy called in after his early morning work-shift at the ‘Manilva Green Aparthotel’ – he checked out all the support systems for the ‘IPTV’ – re-setting all the controls etc, we then tried to bring it back online, with no success, as when we got to the live stage, the system( illegal)  had been taken off-line and closed by the ‘UK National Police Force’ with ‘ warning’s’ for all users! ( 15 million world wide!)

They have been prosecuting the ‘ Providers ‘ in the UK and all over Europe, ours come from Scotland, this means that we now have no English TV, News, Film, Sports channels etc!

After discussing the problem with Andy we decided to go and buy a new 32in Smart TV- from the ‘Carrefort Hypermarket’ over in Estepona, they had some affordable/sale offers on show, but sadly not in stock! ( 1 Week ) While we were there ( me & Andy!) I picked up a new ‘Battery Charger’ with rechargeable Batteries for the camera, on the way back we called into three other ‘Electrical Goods’ supermarkets, all with no luck! ‘ The Best Plans of Men & Mice ‘ !!

So it was ‘ Plan B ‘ for now, Andy spent the next few hours, after we had consulted with Lee, our other ‘IT’ friend, trying to download some systems, with a little luck, we have ‘ Sky News’ and lots of film channels, but no ‘BBC TV, ITV, Channel 4 etc, as well as no Sports channels, Andy also set us up with his ‘Netflix’ joint users plan,  so ‘Plan C ‘ is still to buy a new 32in Smart TV, the best that we can afford, with all the online channels/contacts, so we will not need to use the ‘ Firefox’ TV stick again! We will then try/use a legal download system, after checking out what is available locally, watch this space.

After all this we asked Andy to stay for his well-earned supper, as well as a few ‘ Beers’ while working and his favourite ‘Whisky/Sprite’ to finish!  “ Thanks Again “

This evening we are going out on the ‘town’ for supper, after giving the ‘ Head Chef & Staff’ the night off, we are going along to ‘Bar Castillo’ for a ‘Tapas’ supper.

“ STAY SAFE & WELL INSIDE AT ALL TIMES- IN SELF LOCKDOWN HERE “

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

...