A shopping day

This morning we drove to the Eroski Supermarket to get essential food items plus a consignment of wine (most of which will travel home with us in a week or so) and two sets of typical Spanish earthenware dishes.   Liz, your wish has been granted.   We looked in many shops before finding what we wanted.

We returned to Manolo where we put a pizza in the oven for a late lunch.   All our holiday lunches seem to be late!   In a little while we had our lunch of Chorizo Pizza and San Miguel.   It went down well.   I then decided to consult my laptop and found, to my joy, that Sue & Derek's car had passed its MOT.   That was really good news and well timed after their recent problems.

So the rest of the afternoon was spent in and out of the pool.   During one of the out periods one of the cats, Little Tiddles, thought he would stroll over to say hello.   I tickled him behind the ear and he took that as an invitation to join me on the sun lounger.   He quickly discovered he had got it wrong.   I had enough problems last year when a dog who had adopted us did the same.   On that occasion , in return for my pushing him off the lounger, he ran off up the road with my baseball cap!

I have posted photos of the two cats at the top of this posting.   Yodo is the ginger cat and loves to bask in the sun on the top of the bamboo cane shelter under which we have our meals.   This morning I had to persuade Yodo to move to a new position as I was not keen on a cat falling through onto me at breakfast time.   Little Tiddles (These are the names given to the cats by Sue Brown who owns the property) is the noisy one and is always trying to get me to provide food more often than Sue's rules lay down.   The note on the catfood says "One per cat every 2 days".   They seem to be good cats in that they repel all boarders.   Twice I have heard Yodo seeing off an intruding cat during the night.   I imagine that mice etc get the same treatment.

So now we come to the end of this posting as it is now time to start preparing for dinner.   I really enjoy doing the cooking and Pauline has been helping out with various salads.