[Daphne – Good for you, buying a place in Birgu. I had my eye on an amazing house there, but it had a sitting tenant in the basement, and a bit of the property was hived off and turned into a separate dwelling.]

The lazy corner includes part of St Helen Street, Gafar Street, Arcade Street, Camenzuli, I think … etc etc … there’s no way anyone can include Scicluna Street with the lazy corner.

If you’re from the Stella Maris area you’d be forgiven for not knowing our end of Sliema very well …

[Daphne – I repeat that the lazy corner, in the eyes of those who didn’t live there, stretches all the way from just off Dingli Street to where you grew up. Basically, it was and still is the arse end of Sliema. The only acceptable part of Old College Street is the hill up from Tower Road, where, incidentally, my mother grew up. Of course, you wouldn’t like to think of yourself as being from the lazy corner. Tough. If it were me, I would use it for street cred, in an ironic sort of way. But you obviously have a chip about it. Actually, I know your area of Sliema very well. Do you fondly imagine I sat about in Stella Maris parish and never moved, or that I drove about at the age of 12? I went to primary school in Depiro Street, for a start – St Dorothy’s, not the state school. But thank you for pointing out to our readers that the expression ‘tal-pepe’ is not interchangeable with ‘Slimiz’.]

[Daphne – Of course not. I had a feeling he must be a Sliema boy, because the FAA only uses friends of friends and cousins of friends and children of friends. Hbieb tal-hbieb tal-hbieb. Turns out he’s about my age and from Prince of Wales Road or thereabouts. I thought the name rang a bell but I can’t for the life of me picture him.]

http://www.ambjentahjar.org/articles/stjohnsbeheaded251008.htm

[Daphne – Carmel Cacopardo? Oh, please. He is 1. an AD politician, and 2. an architect. And no one takes him seriously except Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar, because his is certainly not an independent and unbiased opinion, but a political one.]

http://www.ambjentahjar.org/pressRelease/stJohns140209.htm

http://www.ambjentahjar.org/library/expertsreport.pdf

It doesn’t look like to me that they did not take any esperts’ advice.

Well?

[Daphne – You’re very late to this debate, I’m afraid. I’m uploading your comment only because I don’t want you to think I’m ‘censoring’ you. I think you had better scroll back over the past week or so of posts.]

Joseph and Manwel Cuschieri are not from the Lazy corner. They used to live in St Ignatius Villa – Scicluna Street, Balluta/St Julian’s.

[Daphne – That’s the lazy corner; the area takes in the whole of Sliema’s less salubrious neighbourhood, from just off Dingli Street all the way round to the rear of the former Galaxy complex. St Ignatius Villa was a kerreja. M’intiex se tigi taghlimni dwar pajjizi. And it’s not in St Julian’s, though the redrawing of boundaries may have placed it there. Drive up Old College Street, Sliema and you’ll find yourself staring at it.]

At one point he writes: “Jew il-qofol, jew iċ-ċavi (la din hija kwistjoni arkitettonika) tal-kwistjoni kollha …”

What on earth is a ‘ċavi’? At first I thought he means ‘ċavetta’ but, from the bracketed phrase, it must be something to do with architecture.

At any rate this article explains why Joseph Muscat sports that shy little goatee. If RCC is Richelieu, he must think he’s D’Artagnan.

Imma dan perit??

http://www2.l-orizzont.com/news.asp?newsitemid=51241

Ironica wkoll li huwa, li halla postu fil parliament, ghal Lijder il gdid tieghu, jitkellem fuq RCC li “qatt ma ħareġ għall-elezzjoni imma xorta waħda jmexxi l-Gvern ta’ Malta.”

[Daphne – When you don’t have a brain, you can’t use it. They’re a couple of slack-jawed dullards from Sliema’s lazy corner, hodor kemm tridhom.]

Bastjan Dalli granted bail

A court decided this morning that a Bill of Indictment should be issued against Bastjan Dalli, who is charged with conspiracy to import cannabis. The court, presided by Magistrate Miriam Hayman, decided to grant bail to Mr Dalli against a deposit of €24,000 and a personal guarantee of €46,000. The decision was taken after all witnesses were heard. A previous request for bail had been turned down.

[Daphne – John, this has nothing to do with the post.]