A STILL WARM AND SUNNY MANILVA ON MONDAY AT THE START OF A ' HELLUVA ' WEEK !

MONDAY 3^rd/ NOVEMBER 2014.

We had a phone call early this morning, from Daniela to let us know that Barbara has gone into labour earlier this morning so she was dropping ‘Reina’ off first thing; this means that she is going to be with us from Monday to Thursday for the next few weeks!

After breakfast we went for a walk with ‘Reina’ and ‘Chispa’ ( who had arrived early!) down to the butchers for the Beef Mince for tomorrows ‘Cottage Pie’ – I also bought some very nice fresh in Calves Liver for later in the week. On the way back we called into the local fruit & vegetable shop for a Leek, fresh Alselgas and Baby Turnips- all from local ‘Campo’s’

The weather over the weekend has been gorgeous, clear Blue skies, sunshine and warm with just a little breeze to make it very pleasant,better than forecast, but tomorrow all over Spain including here the forecast is for rain storms then back to normal on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, getting hotter at the same time!

This week we are very busy, in ‘Doggy World Heaven’ - ‘Scruffy’ is with us on Tuesday for a two day sleep-over, ‘Charlie’ the African Grey Parrot also arrives on Tuesday for a week here in ‘Bird Sanctuary Paradise’ Andy is stopping for the ‘Cottage Pie’ He’s going to help me book on-line for the ‘ITV – MOT’ yearly test.

Then on Wednesday I’m taking Andy across to the Airport in Malaga in his car and will then pick him up in a weeks time and later at lunchtime when I get back I’m taking our Swedish friend Lillemor to the bus station over in Marbella as she is flying back to Gotenberg!

We have our ‘Gripe – Anti-Flu Jabs’ on Thursday lunchtime at the surgery then I’m back on Friday morning for the results of my blood tests, just changed by the surgery to a week today, before we go down to Sabinillas for our regular shopping; at lunchtime I have the first of my eye test appointments over at the hospital in Marbella! Are you keeping up?! See the Diary below !!

This evening for supper we are having Cold Roast Pork with a fry-up of the leftover vegetables and potatoes, then after caching up with all the new, sport and weather details we will find something to watch; last night we watched the USA ‘Grand Prix’ as we were having our supper – Hamilton won after passing his team mate Rosberg on the fast uphill hairpin on the inside!

Then we watched on TV3 the ‘Bond’ movie “ Quantum of Solace ”from 2008 with Daniel Craig, Olga Kurycenko,Mathiew Armalric,Giancarlo Gianini and Judy Dench – the only problem is that the channel is a commercial station and has very long breaks – 7 minutes at frequent intervals so it makes the film over 30/40 minutes longer!!

So in the breaks I channel hopped and ended up on the ‘Discovery Channel’ – it said that it was live but I could not be sure as they are normally not! It was from live from Chicago and was showing the US Tightrope walker ‘Nik Wallenda’ completing back-to-back high-wire walks above the city with no safety net or harness! First he walked up a steep incline and then crossed blindfolded between the twin Maria City Towers- 500ft  - all in the dark! He’s from the famous ‘ Flying Walenda’ family, his father was killed many year ago attempting the same feet!! I've just read that there was a 10 second delay in case of an accident !!

PS; We have just received in the post a nice surprise post card from Josie & Den showing the large church in Skelton that they live next too; see below a picture of the happy couple taken over the weekend by their 7 year old grand daughter Olivia !

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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WARM AND SUNNY MANILVA ON MONDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEK;

MONDAY 26^th/ MAY 2014.

After breakfast Brenda has shot around to the surgery for her appointment with our own Doctor hopefully; fingers crossed for a better outcome. Well she has just come back from the doctor’s, she actually saw Emilio the main village Doctor and Deputy Mayor and he has arranged for am emergency ‘ECG’ later this morning when I’ve got to take her in the car and not let her walk, he actually rang me on the house phone to come and pick her up but I missed the call, then tomorrow morning, first thing he has arranged an emergency appointment at the X-Ray department in Estapona Hospital and then back to see him at lunchtime at the surgery !! Now that’s a result – more fingers crossed!!

So Brenda went back for her 'ECG'- we went in the car and took the dog with us, Emillio went in and checked her while she was having it and then took her back into his surgery to see the results,he has given her a new prescription for her swollen ankles that have returned and also started the procedure to go to the 'Cardiology Department' at the 'Costa Del Sol Hospital' ASAP! Tomorrow after the visit for the X-Ray he's told her to come straight back to him with it so as he can check it out !! No that's service with a capitol " C "

Last night we had an E-Mail from Josie in reply to my enquiry about when they are coming over next, so we are picking her up on the 19^th June and Den on the 28^th June from the Marbella Bus Station; we had a very enjoyable ‘Last Supper’ for the moment with Gillian and Lillemor and are looking forward to this Wednesday lunchtime when we are meeting them in ‘Bodegon Andaluz’for Gillian’s birthday before we drop her off at the Bus Station later in the evening to catch her flight home to Torquay.

This evening’s supper will be Cold Chicken with a fry-up of the leftover Vegetables and Potatoes, we will sort out the rest of the weeks menu’s later this morning after we have been in touch with Joyce to arrange to meet up with her sometime this week.

We have just spoken to Joyce and have arranged to meet up with her on Thursday lunchtime,she is coming across to us here in sunny Manilva and we are then going to take her up to 'Venta Garcia' for lunch; then the following week we are going across to see here in 'Alhaurin el Grande' - which will be a little adventure as we have not been to the village before!

So the menu's for the week are 'Steak a la Plancha' tomorrow night,something easy on Wednesday and Thursday and Fish on Friday as usual.

The weather forecast is very good, it’s getting hotter and it looks like the sun is here to stay, which is good news for our week ahead.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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" SEMANA SANTA WEEK" STARTS ON FRIDAY EVENING;