A VERY HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ON FRIDAY AT THE START OF A ' HELLUVA' WEEKEND.

FRIDAY 22 nd / JUNE 2018.     “ BRENDA’S 75th BIRTHDAY “ 

I was up early this morning and after a quick freshen up I shot off on my travels down to Sabinillas for the weekly shopping, I had a quick toast & tea in ‘ itsZabar’ before ‘ Mercadona’ opened, this morning it was busy as the holiday business is starting to appear, 7 check-outs open, normally 2! I then collected the local newspapers from the ‘ English Bookshop’ before going along to the far end of the promenade to the local market for some wall plants and this morning a nice bunch of ‘Pink Lilies’ for Brenda, her favourite.

After un-loading back at the house I put the car away in the garage until later, on the way back up to the house I called into our local sub-post office and the very friendly postman found all the ‘Birthday Cards’ for Brenda – ‘ RESULT ‘  Thanks to all the family in Canada, Australia & the UK, also a post-card from Jeff & Annette from their visit to Niagara Falls, they are at the moment in the ‘ air’ as they fly back from Edmonton to Brisbane!


See below the cards & flowers! 

NB; Today is also our dear friend Donna’s Birthday over in the Wirral – “ Happy Birthday – Feliz Cumpleaños “

‘ Cheers ‘ !!

Brenda had taken ‘ Paddy ‘ for his first walk of the day while I was out on my travels, he slept most of the night on the marble floor under the bed, then joined us this morning for his cuddle, while I was out I popped into the ‘Chinese Bazaar’ for a small ball for him to play with, he loves going out and when it’s time to come home, he dosn’t want to!

I then made for the ‘ Birthday Girls’ breakfast her favourite ‘ Campo’ Scrambled Eggs on Toast, topped with Smoked Salmon, we are having a nice chilled bottle of Cava at lunchtime, before we go out, along to ‘ Bar Castillo’ for a light ‘Tapas’ lunch and a cool drink.

See Below;

This morning, after a very hot night, the sun was out first thing and the sky was already bright blue, as I set off, with just a very slight breeze, by lunchtime it’s due to reach 27/28 degs+ - over the weekend we are in for more of the same, next week is looking to be even hotter in the high 20s, low 30s, watch this space.

See below the Bay of Colwyn, North Wales, last night after the long sunset.

At lunchtime we are expecting a ‘ Skype’ video call from Sandra & Bill over in Everett, Ontario, Canada, before they go off to work! While we were speaking to Sandra, Brenda's mobile went off, it was the Florist from 'Puerto de la Duquesa' telling us that she was just about to deliver a bunch of flowers from Sandra !  It's a small World !!  " THANK YOU "  !! 

This afternoon we will catch up with all the sports news before getting ourselves ready to go out later this evening, we are calling into the ‘Casares Golf Club’ for a nice glass of chilled Cava , on our way up the valley to ‘ Venta Garcia’ for supper, watch this space for the pictures of the ' Birthday Girl' this evening! 

PS, Just a reminder when you are reading today’s Blog to carry on and check-out yesterdays Blog, again, as most days I add/update it with more news/pictures!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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" RESTAURANTE MACUES " IN ' PUERTO DE LA DUQUESA' ON SATURDAY EVENING.

                                                           The " Sea Bass baked in Sea Salt "

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ANOTHER PERFECT WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON SATURDAY.

SATURDAY 24^th / SEPTEMBER 2016 !

We were awoken by the voice of the commentator at the top of our street first thing this morning telling us about the ‘ Manilva Maraton Cyclo-Cross ‘ which was just about to start! See the pictures above later.

Brenda grabbed a quick shower, I’m later, we then had a treat for my  ‘Birthday Breakfast’- a nice glass of chilled Cava with crispy ‘ Smoked Bacon Butties’ It’s an official ‘ day off’ for the Chef & Staff!!

Sadly we have a problem with the Spanish postal system, no cards have arrived?! Brenda checked with our local post office on Thursday morning, who know us and our address, she had spoken to Jenny the day before and she said that she, Norah & Lyn over in Australia had posted all their cards early, I received one card last week but since then nothing, we usually get about 5/6 cards from family and old friends, we will try and chase it up on Monday but in the past we have had no luck, its happened at various times over the years but never like this, please keep sending us cards ( and postcards !) as we love receiving them, it’s a tradition that we must keep up! Many thanks to all the messages on Facebook, E-Mails etc from family, friends, old staff and locals here and all over the World, modern technology at its finest!!  Last night as we were going to bed the ' Skype' video went off, it was Jack & Lyn over in Melbourne calling to wish me a ' Happy Birthday, Even the main page of ' Google' sent me a message, see below!

It’s another perfect day here in sunny Manilva, the sun was out early and the sky is bright blue, there is just a slight breeze making its just right for the race as they set off at 9-00am, the rest of the weekend and into next week is looking fine and settled for the time of the year. See the picture of sunny Manilva from the air below;

At lunchtime we went along to Bar Castillo for a ' Al fresco Tapas lunch' sat in the warm sunshine with a nice pleasant breeze, tomorrow we are going up to Bar Rojas for the her excellent 'Paella' lunch, the ' Chef' and his ' Staff' are back on duty in the evening! 

This evening we are going down in a taxi to the castle in ‘ Castillo Duquesa’ for the Councils presentation of the events for 2016/2017 organised by the ‘Foreign Residents’ Department, we are then carrying on to Puerto de la Duquesa to go to our favourite restaurant   overlooking the marina ‘ Restaurante Macues’ for my celebration supper!

This morning on the play list for today’s programmes on ‘ Castle Radio FM 89.2 & Online on the WWW’ my  live show ‘ Sir Malcolm’s Classic session’ is still listed, so fingers crossed that I’m going to make it back on air in the not too distant future, Andrew is at the moment on a sick leave/ short holiday so I’m still waiting for him to come up to my office here in the house to install all the programme systems, watch this space.

On the football front today over in the ‘ Premiere League’ Liverpool welcome Hull, Everton travel down to Bournemouth & Manchester City are in Swansea, over here in ‘ La Liga’ Real Madrid fly to Las Palmas and Barcelona are at Sporting Gijon.

Yesterday evening we channel hopped and watched the final episode of ‘ Joanna Lumley’s Japan ‘ – before it was the very exciting final of ‘ Make Me an Egghead ‘

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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