A VERY WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON WEDNESDAY.

WEDNESDAY 13^th/ JUNE 2018.

We managed a little lie in this morning, after a quick freshen up we took ‘ Paddy’ for his first walk of the day, he had a good sleep, on the bed, after eating all his supper last night! He also had a long walk down to the local surgery, by the sports complex, we took some water and a little tray for him to have a drink, for our appointment with Carmen, the ‘Council Chiropodist ‘ who always does an excellent job, the surgery is looking very smart as it’s been totally refurbished.

After our regular breakfast of ‘ Weetabix’ fresh fruit, toast & tea, I have shot up to the office/studio to catch up on the ‘WWW’ – check the ‘ E-Mails/ Facebook messages etc, read the newspapers, before typing/ posting today’s Blog, Brenda is pottering in one of her ‘ ing’ modes!

We have another glorious day here in sunny Manilva this morning, the sun is already hot and the sky has cleared and is bright blue, there is just a slight breeze, keeping it very pleasant to be out & about, by lunchtime it will be hovering on the 28 degs+ mark, tomorrow it’s due to break the 30 degs barrier for the first time this year! The rest of the week and over the weekend is looking the same, even getting a little warmer, next week we are in for a ‘ hot one’ – hovering in the high 20s, watch this space.

See below  the latest cruise liner to berth at the Pier Head, over in Liverpool yesterday “ Celebrity Eclispe “ – for the second time this year!

Yesterday afternoon when we were speaking to Sandra, Jeff & Annette, over in Everett, Ontario, Canada, on the ‘ Skype’ video Jeff & Annette were just setting off to ‘ Niagara Falls ‘ and have posted some very spectacular pictures as you can see below.

Meanwhile Sandra was going across to Ottawa to stay with her daughter, Alanna (Lanner!) for the night as today she has her ‘ second Graduation Ceremony ‘ – watch this space for the pictures later!

At work !

The ' First ' Degree !

And today at the ' Carlton University ' in Ottawa.

                                                                    
                                                                         " CONGRATULATIONS LANNER " !!







After our lunchtime walk with ' Paddy' we all ended up sat outside ' Bar Rojas' under the umbrella in the very hot sunshine for a nice cool drink, taking the sights & sounds of a very quiet sunny Manilva. 

This evening for our supper we are having ‘ Pan-Seared Lambs Liver ‘ – lightly dusted in seasoned flour, then ‘ flashed’ on a very hot griddle-plate, with Crispy Smoked Bacon & Grilled ‘English’ Pork Sausages, accompanied with Glazed  Baby Carrots & Cabbbage with Acelgas and ‘ Parsley New Potatoes, served with a Red Wine, Onion & Mushroom Salsa.

This afternoon/evening we will be catching up with all the ‘ Quiz Shows’ that we follow, ‘Countdown, The 100 K Drop, Pointless’ etc before channel hopping, last night it was the last in the current series of ‘ Later with Jools Holland ‘ – featuring ‘Niles Rodgers & Chic ‘ – ending with the old classic “ Good Times “  from 1979, it brought back many happy memories of the time when we went across to Manchester to see ‘Chic’ – we were dancing & singing in the aisles to ‘ Le Freak’!

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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A LITTLE COOLER AND AT THE MOMENT OVERCAST SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY.

THURSDAY 10^th/ AUGUST 2017.

Well our expected lie in this morning was shattered when the ‘Councils’ Water Wagon came down our street and parked under our bedroom balcony! They then proceeded to wash down the surrounding streets in our ‘ Barios Andrades ‘ before finishing down our street, it makes a lot of noise as they pump the water through the jet hose, you can’t complain as it’s a very good service and keeps the area fresh & clean.

The ‘ Council’ workmen are back repairing the ‘ Natural Well Water Tap’ in the side street, hopefully it will be back in action later.

‘Doggy World Heaven’  is quiet this week, ‘Reina’ is with us on Saturday evening then she’s back next week for just two days on Tuesday & Wednesday, the following week it’s back to normal as she’s with us for her normal five days, there is no sign of ‘ Chispa’ at the moment – she must have gone on her holidays down to the families ‘ Campo’

After our regular breakfast of ‘ Weetabix’ fresh fruit, toast & tea I went up to the ‘Town Hall’ to find out what is happening about the Chiropodist, Carmen, she has broken her hand and on yesterdays Councils Blog-Page they had an advert for a new ‘Chiropodist’ – this is a blow as she’s very good and offers a terrific service ‘ Free ‘ I could only get the same answers, and no times or dates, she will be sadly missed, watch this space.

On Friday morning I will be going down to Sabinillas, in the car, for the weekly shopping - ‘Mercadona and then Super Sol ‘ I then will then collect the local newspapers from the ‘English Bookshop’ and also some new glasses/tumblers from the main ‘White’ goods shop.  I also need to pick up the dry-cleaning from ‘ Puerto de la Duquesa’ We don’t need any fresh flowers or wall plants this week.

Overnight a stiff breeze came along and by this morning it’s still a little windy and now a lot cooler, the overall temperatures have dropped by nearly 10 degrees, making it a lot more bearable, by lunchtime it will be back in the high 20s ( 25/27 degs) - at the moment it’s a little overcast, it’s staying the same for the rest of the week and over the weekend,  the overnight temperatures are still on the 21 degs mark, next week is steadily getting warmer, watch this space.

See below a picture taken last night of the ‘ Albert Dock ‘ in Liverpool.

At lunchtime we went for a short walk in the fresh air, we ended up at ' Bar Castillo' for a cool drink, I had a 'Tapas' of a Spanish 'Ratatuille' topped with a fried Quails Egg, then a grilled Sardine, fresh from the fish harbour in Estepona, Brenda had her favourite ' Rosado Frito' - again fresh from the harbour, it was fried to perfection, by Juan, dusted in flour, with Lemon wedges on the side, the fish was succulent & sweet, translucent !  We met a very nice English couple that are staying on a urbanization below the village, Mick & Beth, we had a nice chat and answered some of their questions, nice to meet you!

This evening for our supper we are having the rest of the ‘ Beef, Mushroom & Red Wine  Casserole’ – I’m adding some grilled ‘ English Pork Sausages ‘ – with Garden Peas and a Baked Potato on the side, on Friday evening it will be a ‘ Fish Supper’ and then on Saturday it’s going to be ‘ Steak Night’ – Sunday is TBC – we are fancying ‘Lamb ‘ Watch this space.

Still no sign of the ‘ Movistar’ engineers to install the ‘Fiber Optic ‘ cables down our street to the house, we are struggling, again, to watch on the ‘ Amazon Fire TV Stick’  BBC TV etc, when we finally get the ‘Fiber Optics ‘ Lee is going to install a new System which will give us a much better reception/coverage with more channels, watch this space.

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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