A VERY COLD, WINDY & FRESH SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY.

THURSDAY 14^th/ FEBRUARY 2019.   “ ST VALENTINES DAY “

I was up very early this morning to welcome back little princess ‘ Reina’ for the day, we had a late, surprise, a ‘Facebook Message’ from Daniela last night asking us if we could have her for today, she’s now in her duvet, as usual, later this morning little ‘ Winnie’ – the Pug, is joining us for the first time, for a sleep-over, she will be collected later tomorrow afternoon, so ‘ Doggy World Heaven ‘ is open for business again!  ‘ Chispa’ has just called in to see all her friends Watch this space.

PS; She’s just arrived! ( Winnie ) She’s running around mad, chasing all her toys, she has her cage/bed with her, she sleeps all night with the cover over it!

After freshening up we had our usual light breakfast of fresh fruit, toast & tea, I’m feeling a lot better today, the aches & pains have gone and I’m feeling a little stronger, the toilet visits have also stopped and most importantly my appetite is slowly returning! Brenda has also been struggling with a bit of the same bug, at the same time, but is now also on the mend, watch this space.

This morning there is as stiff breeze blowing, bringing in a new cold ‘ Atlantic’ front, it still grey & overcast with dark clouds and very ‘Crisp’ – by lunchtime it will only reach 13/14 degs, tomorrow and over the weekend it’s staying the same, even getting a little more windy, with the threat of the ‘wet-stuff’ in the air, next week is not looking much better, staying cold, overcast with patchy clouds, lots of rain at times, hovering in the low/mid ‘ teens’ – very unseasonal! Watch this space.

On the menu front we are not going to ‘ Fancy’ at the moment, we had a special ‘ Valentines Menu’ planned, but we are now keeping things simple, tonight it’s now going to be ‘ Grilled Pork Loin Steak’ – accompanied with a creamy ‘Green Peppercorn’ Salsa, with finely sliced ‘ French’ Green Beans and Parsley New Potatoes, on Friday it will be ‘ Fish’n Chips’ and ‘Steak Night’ on Saturday, Sunday is still TBC, watch this space.

Tomorrow morning I will be out on my travels down to Sabinillas for the weekly shopping, as usual, then on Monday morning I will be back down to rearrange the appointments at the main ‘Medical Centre’ for my monthly ‘V12’injection and to renew my ‘ Spanish Driving Licence’ – I’m also calling into our Bank to arrange a little outstanding business.

This morning I have just called the family lawyers ( Son & Daughter-in Law ) - of the house, to arrange/ask for a meeting to re-sign the yearly contract on the house, at the same time we will give them a long list of all our grievances & repairs, etc that are outstanding, watch this space.

We will be taking out little ‘ Winnie’ for her first walk later, to get her used  to the village life, it will also give us our first breath of fresh air for a few days, as we have been wrapped up in a blanket of the settee! ‘Darby & Joan’ style!


While we where out the ' Council' workmen were repairing, with the 'cherry-picker' - the new 'Street Canopy' after it being damaged by the wind, they used, for the first time, the new automatic street 'Bollards' to stop the traffic! See below.

We have been watching all the ‘ Quiz Shows’ that we follow and then channel hopping, over the coming weekend and next month, more return/new serials are starting, this evening it’s the second-part ‘Death in Paradise’ – it looks like one of the main characters has been shot dead?!

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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A OVERCAST & GREY, CRISP & COLD, SUNNY MANILVA ON TUESDAY;

TUESDAY 24^th/ JANUARY 2017.

I was up first this morning to see ‘ Reina’ back with us for the day, she shot onto the bed with Brenda and they had a little lie in, meanwhile I went on the ‘WWW’ in the office/studio before getting ready, ‘Reina’ then went in her duvet and we had our breakfast of ‘ Smoked Bacon Butties’ with mugs of tea.

This morning has started a little grey & overcast, it’s still very cold & crisp, the sun is due to break through later when it will reach 18degs, overnight it drop by 10degs, over the next two days it’s more of the same but now a new ‘Atlantic’ front is heading our way making it colder and with rain on the agenda by Friday, watch this space.

I then made a fresh batch of my famous ‘ Minestrone Soup’ using my Tomato Salsa as the base of the soup, I then add Spaghetti & Pasta, White Beans & Lentils, all along with diced Carrots, Leeks, Celery, Turnips, Peppers, Broccoli & Cauliflower, Mushrooms  and any more vegetables that I can find!

This evening for our supper we are having ‘ Pan-Seared Escalopes of Chicken’ in a foaming Lime & Balsamic Butter Salsa with finely sliced Green Beans & dry-sauteed, thick-cit slices of Baked Potato. Tomorrow ‘ Gourmet ‘ “ Dish of the Day “ is yet to be decided, watch this space.

It’s a at home day today taking things easy, I’m reliably told that it’s not a good drying day, so today’s washing will have to wait! We are just pottering around doing nothing in particular, later we will catch up with main news on BBC & over here on TVE, we will then catch some Quiz shows, yesterday I got three answers correct on ‘ University Challenge’! Later we will watch the second part of last night’s ‘ Silent Witness’ episode.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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