As for all this talk about clothes, Daphne may I remind you, being 50 now I can say I lived through the 70s and 80s. As a young man I longed to buy some decent clothes, but not even proper jeans were available, let alone brand names, Diesel? What’s that? I even remember a time when we were about five boys going to a disco and to our surprise all were dressed in the same outfit.

There was not much choice of clothes in the shops either: you go into a disco and more than half the men are wearing the same outfits. Girls might have made their own so they had a better choice. So how can you blame our dear Mintoff for wearing the same clothes? Maybe it brings him the nostalgia of the seventies? At least we were able to go to Catania to buy clothes, yes, but we were only allowed about LM36 or less and above that we were checked upon by customs.

Maybe at the time I tried not to see things as being too bad because I was Labour, but I knew things couldn’t go on that way, and have never stopped voting PN since 1981. Mintoff stole my youth, that’s all I can say, and not just because of clothes but other stuff like music records. Vinyls were pretty popular those days but our dear Mintoff wanted to put a quota on how many were allowed to enter our shores at a time.

I remember when A Day At The Races by Queen came out. All the record shop had was four copies – would you believe it? And in those days there was a large demand for them. Let alone there was a rumour once that records by foreign artists might not be entering our shores anymore so that we would be forced to support Maltese talent instead.

The list may go on and on, I know that a lot of time has passed since then, but most of those in power at the time are still around talking of corruption and abuse today. And besides that, what of my stolen youth? Oh yes, and the latest buzzword “progressivi” – ha, even dear old Karmenu used it in his Paci u Progress slogan during the eighties campaign.

Xtaqt nistaqsik ukoll ghalli jista jkun ta’ ghax m inhix “cert” fis-60’s int u l familja tieghek kontu tieklu sa ma tixbghu??? [Daphne – Il-familja tieghi kienet tiekol sa kemm tixbha anke tlett sekli ilu, ahseb u ara fis-sittinijiet u issa.] insomma ghandi d-dubji tieghi jekk tiekolx sa ma tixba illum ahseb u ara dak iz-zmien

Insomma ghaziza ha nhallik ta’.
u ahjar titghallmu daqsxejn tilbsu jew ghall-inqas jekk ma tkunux certi ma titkellmux int u xi 4 carlatani li jkollok hawn ma saqajk. [Daphne – Allahares kullhadd kien jilbes ta’ cacu bhall-mara tal-leader, habib.]

Bye Bye Happy Easter insomma l festa tieghek ix xahar ta’ NOVEMBRU hahahahaha mur inhasel hasla ja mdellka ragel ta 92 sena qed tghajjar missek tisthi gabna fuq saqajna jew ma tafx eeeeeeeeee ghax jien naf ta li lilek l-ewwel wahda gabek fuq saqajk [Daphne – Le, fil-fatt l-oppost, ghax l-ewwel haga li ghamel l-ex leader tieghek kien li seraq bank shih b’konsegwenzi serji ghall-familja tieghi. U ninnota li 35-sena wara Mintoff, int xorta wahda bqajt hamallu u njorant. Ma tantx ghamlek nies, Mintoff.]

I remember my biology. It’s like cockroaches, instead of a spine they have an exoskeleton.

To show that Sharon Ellul Bonici is still a faithful suldat tal-azzar. And to provide a bit of comic relief.

Maybe my suspicion is right: he still has not paid his water bills.

MikeC – And what would you know about that?

Mentioning styles, did you see what Michelle wore last Saturday morning? Black and that stupid small hat. My God.

[Daphne – Black in the morning? For a celebration? Small hats are allowed, but not black.]