A STILL VERY WARM AND SUNNY MANILVA ON TUESDAY;

TUESDAY 7^th/OCTOBER 2014.

I was up first this morning as little princess ‘Reina’ was arrving early, she is back on Thursday morning, also’ a little change in the bookings as ‘Scruffy’ is not with us this afternoon as Rose has car problems so he’s coming for a sleep-over on Friday evening.

So as we were having our usual breakfast we had a late menu planning meeting; we went for a walk with the dog ‘Chispa’is still not allowed out at the moment but Brenda calls in to see her and took her some Chicken last night, I called into the butchers for some ‘Pork Chops’ (cut ‘English’ style) for tonight’s supper’ and also picked up some ‘Braising’ steak for tomorrow night.

This evening we are having the ‘Pork Chop’ baked in the oven and served with crushed Baby Carrots & Turnips,Diamond cut Green Beans and ‘Breton’ style Potatoes, with pan gravy.I ve just sautéed off the Onions and Red & Green Peppers to go with the potatoes this evening, See the picture below.

At the same time I’ve got ready the “Braised Steak” with Onions & Vegetables for Wednesday’s supper as we are out tomorrow morning over at the hospital in Marbella for my ‘Prostrate’ check-up with my Consultant. On the way back we are calling into the shopping mall ‘La Canada’ for some things for Brenda this time and also we will take Brenda’s passport into the bank in Estepona to be processed.

It’s warm and sunny this morning and it’s looking like it will stay the same through the week and over the weekend. The rest of Spain has settled down, the weather front went across France and then hit England with severe storms and high winds, up in Skelton the ‘Queen and her ‘Consort’ reported that it was ‘P-----g’ down there! She is obviously not ‘Amused’!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

..

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

DAILY LIFE IN MANILVA.

THURSDAY 8TH APRIL 2010.

I have just finished making a Chicken curry for dinner tonight, it’s on the stove simmering away so I have come upstairs to the office to catch up,on Tuesday we had an at home day and sorted and packed everything away, the weather was rather overcast and cloudy so it was a good day to settle back into our home. In the evening we had Pork escalopes in a lemon butter sauce and Layonaise potatoes for supper before settling down to read, over the last couple of day I have been reading James Patterson, which I’m into, as we had no TV; the Spanish system at the start of the year was upgraded, digital/analogue and we needed a small conversion box to get thing working again.

On Wednesday morning Mano and Anna called in so Mano helped me install the box and now we have our picture clearer than ever and some more channels; Mano then came up in the office and we tried to install the page for our electricity company, we have come back to a rather large estimated bill and so we want to go online and put our readings in every month,Mano had had the same problem and also our neighbours as well, it happens at this time of the year but we could not get the page to accept our details, so it’s going to be plan B,try again later ! We then went up to Bar Rojas for a lunchtime drink as it was a beautiful day, the hottest so far, so we sat outside and took in the tranquility of the village and watch the world go by, as we sit in Calle Mar which is one way, we see all the cars go past and also the locals going about their daily business, the Mayor calls in for a coffee, the Chief of Police stops and says hello, locals stop and chat and gossip! Later we had a plate of Patatas Fritas with Mayonaises before we went back to our house and went up on the roof terrace for our early evening cocktail as we took in the evening sunshine;

This morning at lunchtime we walked around to the clinic as Brenda had an appointment, it turned out to be the last one as it has cleared up and does not need dressing any more just a little antiseptic wash each day, which is good news. Brenda is up on the terrace and I am just going to join her for our first drink of the day, the house smells like a Curry house, as you walk through the village at different times of the day you can smell what’s on the stove and tell what they are cooking, our next door neighbour this week has passed through our back kitchen windows from her back yard lots of fresh fruit and vegetables from their garden outside the village, spring greens, Broad Beans in the pod, Brenda’s favorite and this morning very large Lemons ! I don’t know what they think about the smells from our house.

MANILVA. THE ROMAN OASIS.