A DRY & CLEAR SUNNY MANILVA ON WEDNESDAY:

WEDNESDAY 13^th / APRIL 2017.

I was up early once again this morning to welcome back little princess ‘ Reina’ for the day, she arrives at 8-00 am and is collected at 6-00 pm, we all went back to bed and had a nice lie in, for breakfast this morning we had toasted ‘Smoked Bacon Butties’ with mugs of steaming tea, ‘Reina’ disappears into her duvet up in the office, she comes down for her lunch and then joins us later in the afternoon on the settee to watch the TV!

Yesterday the rain did not arrive, as forecast, and by the afternoon it was warm and sunny, overnight its now 12/13 degs and in the daytime we are hovering on the 22 degs mark for now, its getting warmer in the next few days and there is no sign of any of the wet stuff, some parts of Spain further up the coast are reaching 26/27 degs! At the moment its starting to clear after a cloudy/overcast start, the sun is breaking through and there is a little breeze, excellent drying weather!

The pictures below shows a view from the top of the ‘ Radio City Tower’ this morning with just the two cathedrals above the clouds, the other picture, meanwhile was taken down in the city at the same time as the sun was coming through as the ‘ Fab Four’ took a walk!

We are taking things easy today, Brenda is just doing a little ironing and I’ve just put out the drying out of the last wash, up on the roof patio, we will freshen up this evening before going out for dinner, I will collect Brenda from the house and then go down to ‘Duquesa Marina’ and drop her off at the nearest spot so that she has only a short walk to the ‘ Kinnaree Thai Restaurant’ See above.

At the moment the ‘ Euro’ is slowly climbing back up, but its still well down overall, our next round of monthly Pensions are due to arrive in our Spanish Bank Account from next week and its looks like we will be down by over 120 Euros per month! There is no sign of it improving, at the moment, its all due to the various financial crisis’s and the forthcoming referendum over in the UK about leaving the European Community?!

Our friend over in North Wales took the picture of the Bay of Llandudno from the top of the ‘ Little Orme ’ and the other picture show an unusual view of the two ‘Runcorn Bridges’- the new bridge is a small version of the famous ‘Sydney Harbour Bridge’- as you can see!

Last night after supper we channel hopped and watched the end of the ‘ Champions League – Quarter Finals – 2^nd Legs’ as Real Madrid beat VFL Wolfsburg 3-0 ( Agg 3-2) with a Ronaldo hat trick and Manchester City won 1-0 ( Agg 3-2) against Paris St,G! Its ‘ City’s’ first time at reaching the Semi-Finals!

Thought for the Day; See above.

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A VERY HOT AND SUNNY MANILVA AT THE START OF THE WEEK;

MONDAY 18^th/ AUGUST 2014.

First thing this morning little princess ‘Reina’ was dropped off for the day; she is no problem and has settled into our routine very well, I then went back up to bed and we all promptly fell fast asleep and had a good lie in!

She is now eating some proper dog food after trying Scruff’s’ last week, so this morning she had some for her breakfast!

She is back on Thursday this week but ‘Scruffy’ is not here until Saturday evening/Sunday morning as Adrian & Rose are on holiday this week. We have just come back from a short walk with ‘Chispa’ as she came calling just as we were leaving. We went to the local bank in Calle Mar again as yesterday when I went for some cash the machine was not working which meant that I had to get our lunch with Kathrin on ‘account’ with Lumy! Still no joy this morning so I will have to go down to Sabinillas on Tuesday morning if it’s still not working.

The weather today is getting very hot and sunny already and the forecast for the rest of the week and over the weekend is for more of the same and hotter. We have no plans for the rest of the week so we are taking things very easy just drinking, eating, reading, watching TV, relaxing, sleeping and generally doing nothing! That’s enough ‘ings’ for now!

This evening we are out for supper around at the summer residence/apartment of the “Queen of Skelton” for an ‘al fresco’ dining experience as honored guests of the royal couple, we are looking forward to catching up with Den & Josie as they are due home before the end of the month, Den is going first to open up their small winter ‘palace’ in the village of Skelton and then Josie will arrive back a little later! We will miss them terribly and are already looking forward to their next visit?! See the pictures above.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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