A VERY ' CRISP' SUNNY MANILVA ON FRIDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEKEND.

FRIDAY 11^th/ JANUARY 2019.

I was up a little early this morning and after a quick freshen up shot off on my travels down to Sabinillas for the weekly shopping, back at the house Brenda caught up with things and took ‘ Charlie’ out for his first walk of the day, he slept all night on ‘ Reina’s duvet, I only had the main shop in ‘ Mercadona’ this morning, before collecting the local newspapers from the ‘ English Bookshop’ and then shooting back up the hill, through the bare vine fields and around the 4 hairpin bends to the house to unload, after putting the car away in the underground car park I had a nice surprise back at the house, waiting for me was a ‘ Toasted Crispy Smoked Bacon Butty ’- smothered in ‘ HP’ Brown sauce – with a mug of hot tea, as Brenda was on the breakfast rota, she had remembered that ‘ itZabar’ is closed for six weeks!

This morning the sun was out early and the sky was blue as I set off, there was a stiff/cold breeze blowing, which had cleared the clouds away, making it very ‘ Fresh’ on all sides of the street, by lunchtime it’s only going to reach 13 degs+ down to 6/7 degs overnight, the coldest spell we have had since we arrived down here in 2006! Over the weekend we are in for more of the same, getting a little warmer by Monday, then the rest of next week is going to be ‘ Crisp’ & colder at times, with the threat of the ‘ wet-stuff’ in the air – ‘ Mid-Week’ – hovering in the low ‘ teens’ – even on one forecast showing 9 degs during the day?! Watch this space.

For our supper this evening we are having ‘ Goujons of Hake Fillet in a Cruzcampo Beer Batter ‘ with Mushy Peas and twice-cooked ‘Frits’  - served with homemade ‘ Tartar ‘ sauce and lots of Lemon Wedges! 

On Saturday it going to be a large ‘ Grilled Rib of Beef’ with all the trimmings and more ‘ Chips’ No ‘ roast ‘ on Sunday – we are having ‘ Medallions of Pork Fillet’ with a selection of local Vegetables & Potatoes.

Today we are going to take things very easy, I’m still trying to get rid of my cold & aches, which started again after my ‘B12’ injection the other day?! It’s ‘stay at home time’ – relaxing and keeping warm, basically doing nothing, because we can, later we will settle down in front of the TV and channel hop to find something to watch.

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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A EVEN COLDER SUNNY MANILVA ON FRIDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEKEND;

FRIDAY 20^th/ JANUARY 2017.

We were both up early this morning, I shot off on my travels down to Sabinillas for the weekly shopping and Brenda welcomed ‘Reina’ back with us for the last day this week, she’s back next week for her regular five days, she shot into her Duvet, see the picture below of her getting up this morning, back at home, she doesn’t look very happy?!

I did the main shop in ‘ Mercadona’ before popping along to the ‘ English Bookshop’ for the weekly newspapers, the TV Times( with local times!)  and two cards, one birthday and one engagement!! I then shot along the promenade to the local Market for the fresh flowers and two wall plants, finally I called into ‘ Super Sol’ for the English essentials.

The ‘ Engagement’ card is for Matt & Michelle as yesterday they announced on ‘Facebook’ that after 11 years they are getting married on the 8^th May!!   “ Great News & Congratulations “

This morning it’s very cold, to say the least, there is no breeze and the sun is out, the sky is cloudy and blue, the ‘Mediterranean’ is sparkling, you need to wrap up well, it’s the coldest it’s been down here on the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ for over a decade, the overnight temperatures are down to 5/6degs and during the day it’s reaching 15/16degs, we can’t complain as the rest of Spain is below freezing point with heavy snow! Over the weekend it’s staying the same, now, then next week it’s due to pick up and get a little warmer, watch this space.

See below the promenade down in Sabinillas this morning.

This evening for our supper we are having ‘ Goujons of Hake Fillet ‘ using local breadcrumbs, with Mushy Peas and twice-cooked diced ‘ Frits’ and of course homemade ‘Tartar’ sauce. Tomorrow night, at the request of Brenda, it’s going to be the classic ‘ Steak Diane ‘ using ‘ French ‘ trimmed Entrecote Steaks, Sunday is still TBC.


Just a memory from the past, I went to the all-day concert back in 1963, happy memories of all the groups! 

Yesterday evening after supper we settled down to watch the next episode of the ‘ Unforgotten ‘ on ITV, the murdered victim was abused at school, the Detective wife of the victim is starting to show signs of cracking, the ‘Gay’ Barrister, with a past, confesses to a mental breakdown, and also showed a nasty side to his blackmailer, the suspect Nurse has a background of a political/IRA activities, finally the Muslim school teacher is loosing the plot and confesses to her husband that she was a sex worker, meanwhile the two main Detectives have personal family problems of their own to contend with! Are you following so far??

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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