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Back to work. Sort of. There is the usual Inbox to empty (I forgot to leave an Out of Office message). There is the pile of documents and the To Do list to tackle. Most of all there is the freakish Luxembourg weather to cope with. The icon on the iPhone weather program shows a…
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It’s a day for travelling. Not that I feel like but needs must that I get on the plane and the various buses to return to the tropical weather of the north. It’s not been enough, thanks to the bloody cold that conditioned most of my stay. Let’s hope that my next August visit will…
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This article and accompanying Bertoon appeared in yesterday’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. Mediterranean stock I often worry that I will someday lose my mediterranean toughness – that capability to withstand extreme heat conditions with relaxed nonchalance, as well as the thick-skinned resistance to high levels of UV radiation (perceived – not real:…
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This blogger is off for a two day visit to the home island. San Gorg beckons as does a little visit to the different haunts around Calyp. I am fully equipped for the expedition – including an ultra-kitsch answer to the hundreds of I LOVE MALTA t-shirts that can be seen around Malta: I made…
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I think that technically I should be able to get out of the house at this point. Any delay in doing so is really based on excessive caution on my part, particularly by trying to avoid screwing up the last three days of my supposed holidays in the sun before returning to the carribean excesses…
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Teb day’s holidays but three days out. I’ve been trying to get rid of this bloody flu but it just won’t go. To make matters worse that great family M.D. Briffa is also out of order so I had to get an on duty doctor from Gzira Health Centre to perform the perfunctory home visit.…