A WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON FRIDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEKEND;

FRIDAY 12^th/ JUNE 2015.

We were up early this morning and after a quick breakfast we shot out on our travels down to Sabinillas for our weekly shopping; Brenda picked up the local newspapers and another birthday card in the ‘English Bookshop’ before we did our main shop in ‘Mercadona’ – next we called into ‘Super Sol’ for some English essentials and I spotted some ‘Young’s Haddock Fillets in Crispy Batter’ on offer – we have been fancying some Haddock for a while as its not available on the fish counters understandably!

After unloading back at the house, after coming back up the hill through the vine fields, which are now shooting up despite the lack of rain, they are very Green & bushy but you can’t see the Grapes as the they are ground growing on the sandy soil in the shade of the vine leafs!

I popped along to the ‘Chemists’ in Calle Mar for some tablets – keep taking them as the ‘Doctor’ says! On the way back I went down past the ‘Casa de los Torres’ which is starting to look rather good, they have pointed the old stone work around the entrance and are at the moment laying the courtyard with some very fancy large tiles, I will try and get some pictures later.See below,the new doors are rather 'grand' !

Speaking of pictures, tomorrow morning I’m going to have to stay here in the house as our Handyman, Joaquin. is due at 11-00am to fit the new small back kitchen and catch up with all the repairs, which is the same time as the ‘Romeria’ parade and also of course the inauguration of the new Mayor !!

So today is the last day at work for our five local councilors in their jobs, they are still councilors but not in the government. Many thanks to Diego, Mario, Marcos, Eva & Paqui for all their hard and dedicated work over the past eight years! I’ve just bumped into Valentina outside the Town Hall, who also has lost her job with the ‘Foreign Residents Department’ and wished her all the best for the future.

This means that I will get some pictures from the council photographer and also Gary from ‘The Resident’ newspaper to post on the Blog.

So for our supper this evening we are having, for a change, the ‘Haddock’ with Mushy Peas, twice-cooked ‘Frits’ and Homemade Tartar sauce, not forgetting lots of Lemon wedges; then tomorrow its ‘Tournedos Rossini’ with whole fine Green Beans and some more ‘Frits’!

In ‘Doggy World Heaven’ this weekend there is a little change as ‘Scruffy’ in now here on Saturday for a sleep over and being picked up later on Sunday afternoon; the poor lad has been in the wars, he was limping, so Rose took him to the vets and they discovered that he had cut his paw and it was infected, he had to have an operation under anesthetic and his paw is now bandaged with a sock on it and he has a large collar around his neck to stop him licking the wound!

We will give him lots of love and help the patient to recuperate, back to his normal self, while he is with us! On Sunday lunchtime ‘Reina’ is due back with us for the day and no doubt his other friend ‘Chispa’ will be here to see him as well!

                                                                                                    If only !!

Today it’s very hot with just a little breeze to make it rather pleasant, the storm clouds have crossed over us on the way up to Northern Spain and the forecast for the weekend and into next week is settled and even getting a little warmer on Monday.

After our ‘Fish & Chip’ supper we will settle down to find a film to watch after catching up with all the news, sport and weather details on TVE1.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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A VERY WARM AND BREEZY SUNNY MANILVA ON SUNDAY'

SUNDAY 6th/JULY 2014.

After a good nights sleep for all of us we awoke to another glorious day here in sunny Manilva with the added bonus of a little ‘Levante’ breeze! The forecast is looking very good for next week with it getting hotter as the breeze drops. We had our regular breakfast and then Carlos called in after playing a round of golf at ‘Casares’ ( 9 holes!) to pick Brian up

Then some friends of Sally Ann called in with their little miniature Dachshund - ‘Reina’( See the picture below )- Lee & Daniela live in Duquesa and both work in Gibraltar during the week, he’s in ‘IT’ and she is an accountant in the same firm, at the weekend she is a singer! We have lots of mutual friends as it turns out and at the beginning of August they are getting married in Gibraltar.

So we are going to look after their little ‘Princess’ in conjunction with their very good friend Barbara(and ours!) -  1/3 days a week starting on Tuesday; we will see how it goes and get her settled ASAP as on the weekend of the wedding she could be with us for a few days on a long sleep over! Like all our other dogs they have had problems with kennels.’ Scruffy’ is with us on Friday next week on a sleep over and this morning ‘Chispa’ came crashing in as they were here and made friends with her new ‘Girlfriend!’ We are also waiting to hear from another friend of a friend to see if we can look after little ‘Freddie – that’s it for now!!

We are having a very quite and relaxing day at home today, we are not going out for lunch and tonight its our favorite simple meal ‘Escalope of Turkey Breast’ - dry-cooked on the griddle with a dish of Savory ‘Basmati’ Rice, Diamond-cut Green Beans and a sauceboat of a creamy Mushroom sauce.

At lunchtime we watched on ‘TVE 1’ the start of the “ San Fermin ” festival from Pamplona – the bull runs start tomorrow morning; at the moment the ‘British Grand Prix’from Silverstone is just about to start and over on  the ‘TDP’ sports channel the second stage of the ‘Tour De France’ is already on its way from York to Sheffield – Mark Cavendish is out of the Tour and also the ‘Commonwealth Games’ later in the month when he rides for the ‘Isle of Man!’See above for today's stage.

Lewis Hamilton made up for yesterday's mistakes and won the 'British Grand Prix' In the 'Tour De France' the Italian rider 'Nibali' won the stage and took the 'Yellow Jersey' and meanwhile down at Wimbledon its 2 sets all !! DJOKOVIC HAS JUST WON !!

Yesterday over in North Wales in ‘Rhyd-y-Foel’ where we used to live our neighbors from opposite Wyn & Carol’s daughter got married to William, when we first met her she was just a little girl! “ Congratulations” to them both as they fly off to Mexico on their honeymoon –in the pictures you can see our old house in the background as they had a marquee in their garden!

Last night after supper I walked up our street to see a little of the ‘Theater’ show on the stage outside the Town Hall, see some picture above later, I bumped into Den & Josie so they came back to the house for a cool drink, we are going around to their apartment on Wednesday lunchtime for a ‘Al Fresco’ lunch – they are then coming around to us next Sunday for a light ‘Salad’ supper – ‘A La Sexton!’

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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