Buying a packet from LIDL would be more convenient rather than buying single ones from the machine. The students are just bluffing. Everybody know that university is not the ideal place to have sex.

For those who might be curious to know what Xandru is talking about, he’s referring to a number of development applications presented at times by Dr Anton Refalo LLD and at other times by Ms Lina Refalo.

Very briefly, the saga of the site is as follows:

1) 1998 – Application to carry out additions to an ODZ building was refused by DCC but granted by the Appeals Board.

2) 2001 – Other extensions not included in the 1998 permit were carried out illegally and an enforcement notice issued by MEPA. The offending structures were (supposedly?) removed by the owner.

3) 2001 – Application to sanction further illegal extensions was refused by DCC but again granted by the Appeals Board.

4) 2004 – Application to build a swimming pool was granted by DCC.

5) 2009 – Application to sanction reservoir and change landscaping was granted by DCC.

The MEPA auditor would have a field day investigating these decisions but perhaps Gozo is outside his jurisdiction.

Someone who was studying at the university at that time told me that once KJ II was trying to get a game on the snooker table but kept getting deliberately passed over until he stormed off in a huff. Can you imagine if he had nuclear weapons?

My pun detector just blew a fuse