CLEAR AND CALM IN SUNNY MANILVA ON SATURDAY

SATURDAY 14 th/ DECEMBER 2013.

We had a little lie in this morning before we got the day on the go; after our tea and toast with fresh fruit I shot up to the office to get on-line to watch ‘Saturday Morning Kitchen’ live on the smaller PC, meanwhile downstairs in the ‘Cookhouse’ Brenda was getting things on the go so as I can make my now famous ‘Minestrone Soup’ with at the moment 15 vegetables and pulses along with Spaghetti and local White Beans and anything else that I can put my hands on (last nights Peas & Cut Beans!) I use my Tomato salsa as the base and add all sorts of ingredients as I go along (Vegetable stock, Tomato Frito and mixed Herbs)

Today is a football day with the ‘Premier League’ over in England and ‘La Liga’ over here in sunny Manilva and Spain! Manchester City v Arsenal is the early kick-off with Everton v Fulham later then Tottenham v Liverpool tomorrow; over here its Barcelona v Villarreal and Osasuna v Real Madrid. All the Results later. 

Manchester City 6 - Arsenal 3 !! One 'Helluva' game !!
Everton 4 - Fulham 1 !! That will warm Big Bri up over in Pori Finland !!
Real Madrid could only manage a 2-2 BUT Barcelona won 2-1 with Neymar scoring both goals !!!

Tonight’s ‘Saturday Steak Night’ with our ‘Steak a la Plancha’- sautéed baby Mushrooms & sliced Onions, deep-fried Garlic buds for Brenda, finely sliced Green Beans and twice-cooked Chips and mine topped with a fried Campo Egg – and I nearly forgot ‘ Béarnaise’ sauce on the side!

No sign of Mano and Anna this week, they have not even picked up their papers and Derricks bed ?! Its now three weeks since Anna was last here, in the meantime she went to England for two weeks on her jolly but since her return last Sunday there has been no sign’s of her?!

After supper we will watch the football highlights before settling down to find a film to watch. The weather forecast for the weekend and into the start of next wine is fine with no rain and the sun still coming out to warm us in sunny Manilva!

Thought for the Day; See above.

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SUNNY BUT A LITTLE COOLER MANILVA ON SATURDAY;

SATURDAY 16^th/ NOVEMBER 2013.

Over night we have lost nearly 9degs due to the cold front coming down from the North Pole! The rest of Spain is effected even more with heavy snow in the North and all across the mountains, down here on the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ we still have clear blue skies and at the moment no rain so we can’t really moan as its still 17degs today!

At the moment as I’ am typing this I’ am watching ‘Saturday Morning Kitchen’ on the small PC then later I will catch the big one – England v New Zealand (All Blacks) – Spain playing in Equatorial Guinea and the qualifying for the American Grand Prix.

Well England lost 22 - All Blacks 30 but took the game to New Zealand and at one time were in the lead ! Meanwhile down in Cardiff Wales beat Argentina 40- 6.

Mano and Anna called in at lunchtime to pick up the papers and have a good chat and gossip,Mano also rang 'Meson Bar La Bodeguiya' in La Linea to check that they are open on Monday lunchtime,they are so it will be our first port of call with Tim!

Brenda is in her cleaning, washing, bed making mode to get ready for Tim’s visit next week; the dog came crashing in earlier this morning and Charlie is in full voice doing his various whisles,clicks,talking and of course a certain dog barking! This evening after supper we are going over to the airport in Malaga to pick Andy up in his car – we will miss Charlie when he goes home, we get used to hearing him and talking to him!

For our supper this evening we are having a simple ‘Steak a la Plancha’ with grilled Baby Mushrooms along with finely sliced Green Beans and of course twice cooked chips, a little Tomato salad on the side and mine topped with a fried Campo Egg!

Thought for the Day; See above.

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