A GREY & OVERCAST AND RATHER DAMP SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY.

THURSDAY 19^th/ DECEMBER 2019.

I was up early this morning to welcome back little ‘ Miss Bella’ for the last time this week, she shot upstairs and had a nice lie in with us, after freshening up  we had our normal light breakfast of fresh fruit ( sliced Banana) toast & tea.

Brenda then popped down to the local shop for some fresh essentials, where she bumped into Isabel’s daughter Pacqui, who told her that ‘ Chispa’ had not been very well over the weekend and on Monday had a nasty operation, when ‘ Chisp’ last called in to see us last week, she was not her normal self, she was very quiet, didn’t look well and was not eating! It turned out that she had a large growth on her stomach.

We shot down to Isabel’s house and little ‘ Chispa’ greeted us, with a head collar/cone on, she has a large scar with lots of stitches, she is back to her normal happy self  & was very happy to see us, she is eating & drinking, she has had a large, benign 1 kilo growth taken away, the stitches are due to be taken off at the end of the week, great news, we look forward to seeing her over Xmas when ‘Pucci & Chico’ are with us in ‘Doggy World Heaven’ Watch this space.

Overnight we have had some light rain, but it’s was not windy, as the forecasted ‘ Storm Elsa’ is not due to hit us until later today ( 6-00 pm ) – when the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ is now on ‘ Yellow/Orange’ Alert for the weekend ahead  – tomorrow is going to be the day when we have gale-force winds and heavy rain, it’s staying with us over the weekend, the overall temperatures are still hovering on the 16/17 degs mark, next ‘Xmas Week’ is now looking a lot more settled, back to warm & sunny, with a few patchy clouds hanging around, with a lighter breeze, hovering on the 18/19 degs mark, watch this space.

Last night we had a brilliant Red sunset and a spectacular sky, over the village, this morning it was also a rather special sunrise over the Mediterranean, as you can see in the picture below, down in Sabinillas, a friend walking into Gibraltar took a picture as well, meanwhile over in North Wales, over the ‘ Menai Bridge’ to Anglesey they were also having a Red start to the day!  

This evening it’s the ‘ Christmas Carol Concert’ down in the ‘ Iglesia Santa Ana Church’ with the local choirs and the ‘Manilva Brass Band’ performing, depending on the weather we are going to walk around to the Church before our supper! ( Chicken & Mushroom Tarragon Casserole!)  Watch this space.

Tomorrow morning I will be going out on my travels, down to Sabinillas, for our main ‘Xmas’ shopping, well wrapped up in my waterproofs, to catch the local bus, as at the moment there is no sign of the car being back from the garage after it’s repairs and re-taking the ‘ITV-MOT’ – I will come back up to our house in a taxi, watch this space.

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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A WET & WINDY SUNNY MANILVA AHEAD ON THURSDAY.

THURSDAY 12^th/ APRIL 2018.

                                                                                            Tim, Malcolm & Bill !

I was up early this morning to see little princess ‘ Reina’ back with us for the day, as usual, she shot upstairs and got under the duvet on our bed, to join us for a little  ‘ surprise’ lie in this morning, as we are now not going across to Estepona as we had planned, as we have another major problem with the car! ( See below )

Yesterday afternoon I went down to the ‘Council’ underground car park to go down to the main ‘ Medical Centre’ for my ‘ B12 Vitamin ‘ second injection, as I went to start the car there was no clutch pedal, it was down on the floor with no pressure?! I shot back up to the house and called Pedro, at the garage, he came and picked me up, at the same time I rang the surgery and cancelled the appointment, He checked the car out and soon discovered a pool of ‘ Dark Stuff’ under the front of the car, I drove his car to the garage and he brought our car along, by putting it into 1^st gear, then starting the engine and driving slowly!

We are waiting to hear the ‘ bad news’ – watch this space. When Rose & Adrian collected ‘ Scruffy’ later, we bought the car off Rose, they reminded us that it had a new clutch pedal etc just before we bought it?!

We didn’t have a very good night’s sleep, this morning after freshening up, Brenda shot off to the local sub-post office to post a birthday card, before the rain storms hit us later, when she returned I had prepared our Breakfast of ‘ Campo’ Scrambled Eggs on Brown toast for her, I had a ‘ Toasted Campo Fried Egg Butty’ – with mugs of strong, sweet, tea, to strengthen us for the day ahead!

This morning has started grey & overcast with black clouds on the horizon, a stiff breeze is bringing in the rain storms, strong winds and more snow on the mountains, later, all across Spain, with lots of the ‘ Regions’ on high alert, over the next two days! The overall temperature is down to 14 degs  by lunchtime, on Saturday the storms are forecast to have passed and the sun will return to the ‘ Costa Del Sol ‘ – hopefully! We are then in for a period of dry, warm and sunny weather from Sunday and into next week it’s now looking warm, sunny & settled, rising to 23 degs+ watch this space.

Tomorrow morning I’m now having to go down to Sabinillas on the local bus, as it dosn’t run on Saturday, for our weekly shopping, I will have to wrap up in the waterproofs and brave the storms, I will then get a taxi back up to the house.

For our supper this evening we are now having the rest of the ‘ Beef Casserole’ with the leftover vegetables and ‘ Mashed’ potato,  the weekend Menu’s, from tomorrow are unchanged.

Last night after supper we watched the second leg of the ‘ Quarter-Final UEFA Champions League’ as Real Madrid welcomed Roma to the ‘Santigo Bernabeu Staduim ‘ with a 3 away goal, first leg lead, Roma then went on to pegging the tie to 3-3 thriller, scoring 3 away goals themselves, in the 97 minute, after the veteran Italian goalkeeper ‘ Buffon’ was sent off for ‘ aggressive reaction’ to the English referee ‘ as he was playing his final game in the ‘ Champions League’ Ronaldo’ scored the winning penalty, before bearing his chest/abbs to the adoring fans!

Today sees the start of the 3-Day ‘ Grand National’ meeting at Aintree, we will be following the racing on the excellent ‘ ITV’ coverage, this year could see the first female jockey win the ‘ Grand National’ as there are 3 ladies riding in this year race, all with a chance, watch this space.

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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