A VERY WARM, BREEZY & SUNNY MANILVA ON MONDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEK.

MONDAY 21^st/ AUGUST 2017.

I was up early this morning to welcome back little princess ‘ Reina’ for the day, she’s with us for five days this week in ‘ Doggy World Heaven’ – she shot upstairs and joined us on the bed for a little lie in, she then went onto her duvet. No doubt ‘ Chispa’ will be calling later to see her and us!

After freshening up we had our breakfast of ‘ Crispy Smoked Bacon Butties ‘ with mugs of steaming tea, we have no plans this week, so far, later this morning our friend Mick is coming, with his ladders & drill, to re-fix the new wall pots, we are also waiting for our Spanish friend, Juan, to arrive this week to do the repairs to the downstairs bathroom and finish the grouting in the upstairs bathroom, I need to call into the surgery to make an appointment for some Blood Tests as at the end of September I have my six month review/check up with the ‘Prostrate Consultant’

See below the new wall pots up and secured this morning. ( Thank’s Mick !)

This morning has started warm & sunny with a nice fresh breeze blowing, the sky has cleared and by lunchtime it will be on the 28/29 degs mark, the rest of the week and over the weekend we are in for more of the same, getting a little hotter as the days go on, next week is also looking warm & settled in time for the ‘ Vendimia Wine Festival’ on the first weekend in September, watch this space.

For our supper this evening we are having the rest of the  ‘Roast Chicken’ with whole Green Beans & Parsley New Potatoes, the rest of the week we are taking one day at the time, watch this space.

Just a quick update on the football results over here in ‘ La Liga’ – Barcelona won 2-0 & Real Madrid won 0-3, this evening over in the ‘ Premier League’ it’s the clash of the ‘ Blues ‘ as Manchester City welcome Everton.

In Liverpool yesterday the ‘Round the World Clipper Race’ set sail on a breezy River Mersey, it takes over 11 months with 8 legs, all the crew are trained amateurs, with a qualified skipper, across five oceans to six continents, the initial stage is expected to take 35 days, over 6,400 nautical miles to arrive in ‘Punte Del Este’ in Uruguay.

See below the Clipper ‘ Liverpool ‘ as it set off from the Albert Dock on the River Mersey towards the Irish Sea and then the Atlantic Ocean.

Meanwhile the ‘ Vuelta a Espana 2017 ‘ Stage 3 is from ‘Prades Conflent Canigo’ to ‘Andorra La Vella’ over 158 kms, it starts in France, then crosses the Pyrenees in to Spain and ends in Andorra! A ‘ Climbers’ stage with three major mountains and a fast descent to the finish, Chris Froome is 21 secs behind the Race Leaders ‘ Red Jersey ‘ Watch this space.

See the route map below of today's Stage 3.

Last night after supper we watched the latest excellent adaptation, based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy “ Far From The Madding Crowd “ – the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong ‘ Bathsheba Everdene’ played by Carey Mulligane ( Julie Christie ) with Matthias Schoenaerts ( Alan Bates )  as the ‘ sheep farmer ‘ Tom Sturridge ( Terence Stamp) as the reckless ‘ sergeant’ and Michael Sheen ( Peter Finch ) as the prosperous and mature ‘ bachelor’ – the 1967 actors in (brackets!) – a timeless story of passions, relationships and love, as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance, don’t miss it!!

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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WARM AND SUNNY MANILVA ON SUNDAY; NOW WET !

SUNDAY 1^st/ JUNE 2014.

Well the rains came but not when we were expecting them; at 1-00am this morning the heavens opened with a typical ‘Spanish’ rain storm that lasted for two hours non-stop, it was so heavy that the locals drinking in ‘Bodegon Andaluz’ two doors down our street where trapped inside until it stopped, not that they minded!

This morning as I took ‘Scruffy’ for his first walk of the day you would not know that it had been raining, we are back to normal with the skies blue and the sun out in a warm and sunny Manilva!

Sadly Brenda did not have a good night as she had a coughing fit due to the paint smell in the bedroom so she had to move upstairs to the main guest bedroom in the middle of the night; this morning she has not coughed but is a little shattered to say the least, we have no plans for the rest of the day so I will try and make her take it easy – which is rather hard to say the least!

Last night I was able to find and log-on to the big grudge fight via my ‘Wiziwig’ all-sports connection to see Carl Froch knockout George Groves with a huge right hand in the eight round of their re-match in front of a British-record 80,000 fans at ‘Wembley Stadium’ The knockout punch was being described by all the pundits as the best right-handed punch ever thrown! It was one ‘Helluve’ shot!! The atmosphere in the stadium was terrific.

Yesterday we received a nice ‘Newsy’ E-Mail( Thanks!) from Gillian after she finally got home to Torquay; she stopped off in Bristol to see her daughter, on her travels she uses buses, trains and planes and also boats when she lived on the ‘Isle of White!’ Den and Josie are also the same as they make their way across country to get to the planes!

Meanwhile over in Australia this morning as I was typing the Blog I noticed Jack and Lyn come on-line on the ‘Skype’ video; so we have just had a good long catch-up/chat, they have just arrived in Cairns in Queensland which is on the coast by the ‘Great Barrier Reef’ after going past Brisbane and onto Rockhampton and then Townsville – so far they have traveled 4462kms so they only have another 10,000kms or more to go!!

Lyn’s daughter Annette and her partner are flying up to Cairns from Melbourne for a couple of days to see them before they set off on the next long leg of the adventure across to ‘Mount Isa’ on their way to Darwin in the ‘Northern Territory’ right at the top of Australia next to the wilds of ‘Arnhem Land’!! Safe traveling and keep to the left!

Tonight for supper we are having ‘Escalope of Turkey Breast’ pan-fried in foaming Lemon Butter with a savory Basmati Rice which I making later with Green Beans and a rich creamy Mushroom sauce on the side. We will then watch the news, sport and weather updates before settling down to find something to watch; on Monday evening later there is a programme about ‘Spanish’ people working abroad –this week its ‘Wales’- on the trailers we have recognized a few place already!

PS; The rain is back with thunder and lightning !

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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