A CLEAR & DRY SUNNY MANILVA ON SUNDAY;

SUNDAY 5^th/ FEBRUARY 2017.

We managed a nice lie in this morning before the church bells started calling the ‘Faithfull’!  After a quick freshen up we then had breakfast, ‘ Fried Eggs & Crispy Smoked Bacon ‘ with buttered toast and tea. We are having a nice quiet day doing nothing, because we can, later we are going down to the ‘ Council Chamber’ next to the Police Station to vote in the first ever ‘ Open Vote’ for residents in Manilva on the suggested change to this year’s ‘ Feria - Fair ‘ – Three separate ones or the normal one on the ‘ Rastro Ground’ – “ YES or N0 “ ?! Watch this space.

                                                 RESULT ; 847 - YES   387 NO  so its 'Three Ferias' by 70%!

Overnight the wind got up and we had heavy rain, it’s cleared now and the sky is blue, there is just a little stiff breeze and the sun is breaking through, by lunchtime it will be warm & sunny, reaching 19/20degs again! Next week is looking dry & settled but by next weekend we have yet another ‘ Atlantic’ front coming in making it a little colder and damp, watch this space.

At lunchtime after voting we are going to have a ‘ Tapas’ lunch out at one of the local ‘ Bars ‘ before coming back to watch the ‘ Six Nations Rugby Union’ as Italy welcome Wales, yesterday Scotland beat Ireland and England just about beat France, over in the ‘ Premiere League’ Everton won 6-3 with ‘Lukaku’ scoring four goals, sadly Liverpool lost at Hull, the lowest team in the league, 2-0  - they can’t score or defend – which is rather important in football!!

PS; Wales have just won!

We ended up at the new ' Bar la Pedreta ' for a nice drink and some very nice assorted 'Tapas'- very good value.

Last night after supper we watched the next episode of ‘ Taboo’ – it started with a ‘Duel ‘ on an Island in the middle of the Thames, the two main characters were not shot but somebody was killed?! The ‘ Crown’ with this week ‘ George 1V’ gorging himself on an ostrich egg, ‘The East India Company’ chairman swearing a lot and the ‘American’ Government spies, all up to ‘ dirty tricks’ The strange sister was exorcised but still writhes in agony or ecstasy?! The main character only killed one person this week, by cutting his throat and heart, he did cut of some ones thumb later? Oh and yes there is a mad man making ‘Gunpowder ‘ with the main characters young son?! Watch this space.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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A OVERCAST & LITTLE DAMP SUNNY MANILVA ON 'ELECTION' SUNDAY;

SUNDAY 24^th/ MAY 2015.      “ELECTION SUNDAY”

We had a surprise lie in this morning as ‘Charlie’ took one look at the weather and stayed on the bed with us! Its’ grey & overcast with a little light drizzle, as forecast, for sometime this weekend, although it’s still warm and so rather agreeable!

When we came back from our walk there was nice treat waiting for us ‘ Crispy Smoked Bacon Butties’with a mug of steaming tea, after we had both dried off on the towel ‘Charlie’ - dries himself by rolling and tossing the towel, he’s very clever!  See the picture below of  ‘Charlie’ patiently waiting for his breakfast!

Last night after supper we settled down and watched the 60th “Eurovision Song Contest” from Vienna, we miss Graham Norton’s comments, the regular Spanish commentator is a little hard to follow! We channel hopped during the show and then watched the results; our favorite part is guessing who the votes are going too from a particular country!

Over here yesterday it was the final games in ‘La Liga’ as Barcelona drew 2-2 & Real Madrid won 7-3 with yet another Ronaldo ( Big Head!) hat-trick, today it’s the final day over in the ‘Premiere League’ Over in a very wet Giro d’Italia Alberto Contador took a large lead in the long Time Trial and now has the leaders ‘Pink’ Jersey going into today’s mountain stage.

Meanwhile over in the UK on the ‘Whit Bank Holiday Weekend’ in a rather sunny Llandudno they had a spectacular “Air Show” as the Bay between the Great Orme & Little Orme is just the right setting. See the picture of the famous ‘Red Arrows’ taken by our friend Julie Fallon ( sorry about the man’s head!

                                                                            Spot the odd one out !

 

At lunchtime we are going down to the ‘Pabellon – Congress Centre’ by the sports complex to vote, no ‘X’ in the box here, after registering, you just select the voting paper for the party that you support, pop it in a envelope and drop it in the box!  There are 17 seats available under the ‘Proportional Representational’ system in Spain, the number of seats in the local election is governed by the number of registered voters for each town, at the same time it’s also the ‘National Elections’ in Spain, which we can’t vote in, in each of the Automous Governed ‘Regions’ City’s, Town’s & villages with the same system!! Are you paying attention?! Watch this space for the local result.

The week ahead is very busy here in ‘Doggy World Heaven’ – ‘Charlie’ s here on his holiday’s until Saturday morning ‘Reina’ is with us on Tuesday & Thursday as normal and then is back for short weekend break from Friday to Monday and ‘Scruffy’ is coming on Thursday for a two-day sleep over!

This means that we will have the three dogs with us on Friday night which could be rather interesting to say the least!!! And of course ‘Chispa’ will be here all the time with all here friends. Also early next Saturday morning I’m dropping our Swedish friend,Lillemor, off at the bus station in Marbella to catch her flight home to Gothenburg leaving Brenda in charge of the ‘Mad House’!

This evening for our supper we are having sliced ‘Cold Boiled Ham’ that I boiled yesterday with a Mixed Salad & some Baby New Potatoes in their skins. We will then catch up with all the news, sport and weather details.See below - click on the second one!

PS; I'm making a large bowl of my famous 'Ensaldilla Rusa - Russian Salad' as Brenda has got all the ingredients ready earlier this morning.

                                                               They have started to arrive!

                                                                 And docked - ' QM2'

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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