We’re back with the round up that causes minor sensations and draws this blog closer (or farther) to (or from) its continental and intercontinental counterparts. It’s been a long, drawn out, heavy summer that once again threatened to shoot blogs and blogging into oblivion as most people preferred the cool of the sea to the…

BBC have a news item about the floating turbines I mentioned in this week’s Indy article. Click here to see the BBC media player presentation – do note how Norwegians speaking English tend to sound like the good old Texas Instrument’s Speak & Spell (emulator here).

This article and accompanying Bertoon appeared in yesterday’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. (06.09.2009) It’s the remedy that works wherever it hurts. I carry tubs of it wherever I go and can vouch for its efficacy to soothe sore muscles, loosen blocked noses and bring back fresh air to a heavy chest. Rubbing…

There’s Tigers in the news. Remember Karl Schembri’s “Il-Manifest tal-Killer”? Was it a tiger or a lion that escaped the travelling circus in that book? Apparently it’s not circuses we have to look out for but geniuses who keep tigers in the attic. As China introduces new regulation on the trade of tiger related products…

  For personal reasons (not political nor censorship) this blog is in limbo until further notice. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.  We’ll be back when the smile returns. picture:  Giotto. Descent to limbo.

This article and accompanying Bertoon appear in today’s Malta Independent on Sunday. The clouds descended on the archipelago as the cut-with-a-knife humidity morphed into a stickiness that was pregnant with electric anticipation; meanwhile the millions of servants of Beelzebub set about tormenting the inhabitants in every cafe with their irrequietous presence. The sun vanished temporarily…