A OVERCAST & CLOUDY, BUT STILL DRY, SUNNY MANILVA ON TUESDAY.

TUESDAY 31^st/ OCTOBER 2017.

I was up early this morning to welcome back ‘ Reina’ for the day, she joined us on the bed , along with ‘Charlie’ – who jumps up when he’s ready to go out, he does his exercises first, we then all went out for the first walk of the day, ‘Reina’ shot into her duvet, we walked down the lower part of the village, before any of the wet stuff hit us, both ‘ Charlie & ‘Lolo’ are very good and are into the routine, we then came back up to the house along ‘ Calle Mar ‘ where there are just two ‘Construction’ workers digging a small hole to attach the emergency water supply, otherwise there is no sign of any major activity, at the moment!  Watch this space.

‘Charlie’ is due to be collected early this evening, after Jan & Brian return from the ‘UK’ - then possibly ‘Lolo’ depending on the flight times, back from Lanzarote, for Marta & Jose, if not he will be picked up tomorrow morning, when ‘ Reina’ is back for the day.

As we were out it was still overcast & cloudy, with a stiff breeze, no sign of any of the wet stuff, at the moment, the forecast is for it to set in for the next 4/5 days! On Sunday it clears away and the sun returns but still hovering in the low 20s, next week is looking dry & sunny but still only reaching the low 20s, watch this space.

See below a reminder of what Sabinillas beach looks like on a fine day!

For our supper this evening we are having ‘Pan-Seared Calves Liver ‘ – dusted in seasoned flour, with Crispy Smoked Bacon, Grilled ‘English’ Pork Sausages ( as it’s ‘English’ sausage Week!)  and garnished with seared Button Mushrooms, accompanied with a sauceboat of ‘Red Wine’ Onion Gravy, with whole Baby Green Beans on the side along with ‘ crispy’ diced New Potatoes tossed in foaming butter.

On Wednesday I’m making my famous “ Beef Curry “ with Brenda’s equally famous ‘ Basmati Boiled Rice ‘ – along with all the trimmings.

We are now up to date with all the serials that we follow, this evenings it’s the final episode of ‘ Our Girl ‘ and next Sunday the last episode of the ‘ The Last Post ‘ – then there are all new series starting, we are also watching all the other ‘English’ TV Channels on the new system,including all the  
various Quiz shows.

We have a basket of assorted sweets ready for if/when all the local children come calling for their ‘ Trick or Treat ‘ Halloween night, there is a special extravaganza happening in the ‘ Casa de Torres ‘ in the next street during the evening, the ‘ adult ‘ one was on Saturday evening down in the ‘Pabellon’ by the sports ground.

Tomorrow it’s a ‘National Bank Holiday’  here in Spain, when they celebrate ‘All Saints Day ‘ – when all the locals visit the cemetery and decorate all the burial plots with flowers.

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY FROM A VERY HOT & SUNNY MANILVA;

THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY FROM SUNNY MANILVA;

MANILVA AT THE START OF THE WEEK.

MONDAY 26^th NOVEMBER 2012.

The sun is out and there is no sign of rain for the next week but we are going to be colder by our standards, down to 15degs overnight as the Atlantic front hits us; in the morning we went around to the surgery as we both had appointments to check out our medications and update the prescriptions - we have just come back from a walk( Tuesday ) around the village with Cheta and we had our jackets on for the first time – the picture below shows the work on the outside of the car park is well on the way and this morning they have started to brick in the sides. So today,Monday it’s going to be an at home day catching up with jobs around the house, Brenda has the washing on as it looks like a good drying day and I ‘am settled in the office checking out the WWW. In the mornings I catch up with all the news via the BBC Newspage,various TV Channels including Sky, the Daily Mail and Daily Express online pages and other news and TV Channels from around the world, then I go to Facebook and Skype to catch up with what’s been happening and finally I check out the E-Mails – yesterday Jane’s E-Mail was hacked into by the same method as ours was last year – a begging e-mail asking for help sent to all her contacts, just the same as the one that we had in every detail except for where she was stuck !

Overnight in North Wales the severe rain storms have hit them and in our part in the city of St,Asaph there have been severe floods as well as in Abergele and other local villages in the low lying area's are under threat; when I’ am on the BBC Newspage I log on to the news in North Wales and also can go onto the live Expressway overhead cameras to check out the weather around Old Colwyn where Tim’s house is ! It’s raining at the moment Tim !!

Brenda has started on the Xmas cards for Australia – they are in the post Lyn as well as your birthday card! We have also got the usual cards arriving for our wedding anniversary on Thursday ( 41^st ) – no plans this year at the moment as we are saving ourselves for the Xmas celebrations!  Watch this space. For supper we had Pork Cutlet with Boulangere Potatoes, tonight,Tuesday we are having Minute Steak a la Plancha topped with a Fried Egg along with finely sliced Green Beans, Mushrooms and square Chips. The film that we caught last night was “ Villa Rides ”from 1968 with Yul Brynner in the title role and Robert Mitchum and Charles Bronson – they don’t make films like this now!

Thought for the Day;

Only a life lived for others is worth living.

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