A CRISP & WARM SUNNY MANILVA ON MONDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEK.

MONDAY 29th / FEBRUARY 2016 !

We had a little lie in this morning before ‘Reina’ was dropped off by Lee, Daniela is away on business in London, I then took ‘ Charlie’ out for his first walk of the day, when we returned I treated ourselves to ‘ Smoked Bacon Butties’ ( HP sauce !) with a mug of steaming tea, well its ‘Bank Holiday Monday’ here in the village, not in the rest of Spain, after the festivities of yesterdays ‘ Dia de Andalucia’ The Council workmen were out and Calle Mar is already looking clean and tidy.

Its the most perfect day down here on the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ with a very bright & clear blue sky, there is no breeze and the sunshine is warm, by lunchtime it will reach 20 degs, over the next couple of days we are in for more of the same. Perfect drying weather so is looks like I will be putting more washing out to dry!

I sent in an E-Mail request to ' Castle Radio FM 89.2'  to cheer Brenda up at the start of the week, Andrew played 'Bueno Sera' by Louis Prima and gave her a good chat/ spot on the ' Breakfast Show' - still no news on my Sunday Show - watch this space!

After breakfast I got this evenings supper ready ‘ Escalope of Chicken Breast’ cooked in foaming Lime Butter with whole fine Green Beans & Baby Mushrooms, tomorrow night we are having ‘Minute Entrecote Steak’ with Broccoli Florets.

At lunchtime Man & Anna called in for a chat and a gossip, Mano came and helped me fold the sheets off the washing line up on the roof patio and I then put the next wash on the go, a large duvet!

Over at Wembley in the ‘Capital One Cup Final’ Liverpool lost to Manchester City in a penalty shoot out, after extra time, 3-1 when the Manchester City second goalkeeper Willy Caballero saved 3 penalties! Here in ‘ La Liga’ Barcelona beat Savilla 2-1 and are now 8 points ahead of Atl Madrid and 12 points ahead of Real Madrid as they won their 34^th consecutive game!!

Last night after supper we watched over on BBC 1 the second episode of “ The Night Manager “ which was very exciting and gripping.

PS; One of our Pensions has just arrived in our Spanish Bank Account and is down on last months, yet again, as the Euro value drops against the Pound as it reacts to the upcoming ‘European Union’ “ Brexit” vote, with more to come, as well as the other World problems, this is now a serious matter that is effecting us for the foreseeable future!!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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A VERY SUNNY MANILVA ON' BANK HOLIDAY' SATURDAY;

SATURDAY 5^TH/ AUGUST 2015.  “DIA DE ASUNCION – ASSUMPTION DAY”

This weekend is one of the major ‘Bank Holiday’ weekends here in Spain as they celebrate today the ‘Assumption of Mary’ – a major ‘Saints’ day in the religious calendar; it’s the height of the holiday season so the whole weekend goes mad all over Spain!

Late yesterday afternoon there were two major fires just down the coast before & behind Sotogrande, the first was in the slopes & hills to the west of Sotogrande and then another one broke out on the outskirts of Torreguadiaro, on the edge of Manilva, when a car in the car park of a large hotel burst into flames after an electrical fault, exploded and set more cars on fire before which then because of the stiff breeze set the surrounding country side on fire!!

On Facebook there were lots of pictures & reports posted, it made the National news and was declared a major incident, all the local Fire Stations were called out including ours here in the village; as you can see in the pictures below the Helicopters & Emergency Water Planes were called into action – the pictures were taken by Gary of the ‘Resident’ newspaper.See below;

Last night we had a ‘Helluva’ night on the town (village) We went along to ‘Bar Castillo’- to start, as at lunchtime when we called in for a drink we saw some very nice looking ‘Chuletas de Cordero’ – Baby Lamb Cutlets, so I ordered 4 as a Tapas – we took along some ‘Mint Sauce’ and introduced Juan to it as a ‘Salsa’! They also had some strips of ‘Belly Pork’ so we tried two small ones – all cooked ‘a la plancha’ – the Pork was served with Lemon wedges – Delicious!!

Juan has got some more help in along with his family, as he’s so busy, two local ‘Senoritas’ are now running around the place giving it even more atmosphere & excitement!!

We then came back along to ‘ Bar Rojas’ for our ‘fish supper’ – but there was a problem as Keino could not get his new TV to work – there was an important match on – so the place was dead and had no atmosphere – we cancelled our supper and shot back along to Bar Castillo, who had the match on and the place was ‘bouncing’- we went inside for a change and joined all the locals to watch the game; it was the first leg of the ‘Spanish Super Cup’ as Athletic Bibao welcomed Barcelona to the ‘Cathedral of Sound’ – sadly Barcelona lost 4-0 with Aduriz scoring a hat trick!

While we were watching the game we had a ‘ration’ plate of more of the ‘Lamb & Pork’ with some excellent ‘frits’ on the side – we staggered back to the house along Calle Mar feeling no pain!

The second leg is on Monday back in Barcelona?! The ‘La Liga’ then starts next weekend, who do Barcelona, play in their first game of the season? – none other than Athletic Bilbao – back at the ‘Cathedral of Sound’ up in Bilbao!!

Meanwhile over in the ‘Premier League’ in the UK Everton travel all the way down to Southampton today, Manchester City welcome Chelsea tomorrow in the ‘Match of the Day’ and then on Monday Liverpool welcome newly promoted Bournmouth to Anfield!  

After a little well deserved lie in this morning ‘Scruffy’ was dropped off for the day, we then had a late breakfast of Fresh Orange juice followed by ‘Campo Fried Eggs’ with  crispy ‘Smoked Back Bacon’ with lots of toast and a mug of steaming tea!

We are taking things easy over the weekend and will go out for our now regular ‘Paella’ at lunchtime tomorrow; this evening we are having ‘Entrecote Minute Steak’ with all the trimmings for supper before finding a good film to watch after the news, sport and weather round ups.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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WARM AND SUNNY MANILVA ON SATURDAY

SATURDAY 7^th/ DECEMBER 2013.

After our tea and toast I went upstairs to the office and watched on the small PC ‘Saturday Morning Kitchen’ live before we went for a walk with the dogs around the village in the warm sunshine, I came back with our second ‘Poinsettia’!

I then got tonight’s supper set up; ‘Steak a la Plancha’- I trim the steaks and season with salt & ground Black Peppercorns, the White Baby Mushrooms are scored across the tops, the twice-cooked chips are blanched and Brenda has sliced the green Beans and cooked them ‘Aldente’ At the same time I pan-fried off the Chicken Wings to use as a Tapas as required.

This afternoon I will watch the football over in England in the Premier League in the office on the large PC – live; Liverpool v West Ham and Southampton v Man. City – Everton are at Arsenal on Sunday. Over here there is no ‘La Liga’ football this weekend as it’s the ‘ Copa del Rey – like the F.A. Cup’ – last night Barcelona went to lowly Cartagena and won 1-4, tonight Real Madrid are at another lower league team Olimpic!? Olympic Xativao from the third division 0 - Real Madrid 0 !!

Liverpool 4 - West Ham 1 and 1 -1 at Southampton !

Last nights film was “ Covert One – The Hades Factor ” from 2006 – based on the Robert Ludlum book of the same name; you need to concentrate as it’s a spy thriller with lots of twists and double dealing right up to the end! Stephen Dorff,Mira Sorvino are the agents for the mysterious ‘Covert One’ Blair Underwood is their boss,Anjelica Huston is the President of the USA and Colm Meany appears with a terrible English accent!

Tonight after our steak supper we will find a film to watch, no problems as there lots on over the bank holiday weekend!

Thought for the Day; See above.

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