Baxxter, I’m at harry@purdie.com, don’t know yours.

Just shoot me an email whenever you’re available.

Correct, John. I had a deal to sell all six to the Malaysians for 12 million dollars each–72 million in total.

I even had some shipping friends from Antwerp come over to check them out.

We were able to tour the ships, very impressive. Unfortunately the deal fell through after I was imprisoned.

Everyone withdrew from the deal once they realized how scary the ‘new’ government was.

Anytime, Baxxter, but no Cyrus stuff.

Sure, I might have seen Gaddafi waving the EU flag after the referendum results …

but then stopped celebrating when the PL said that partnership had won the referendum.

Perhaps the reporter at The Times should have followed up on that response by ringing Alex Sceberras Trigona, Karmenu Vella and Joe Grima directly.

You interest me deeply, Harry. I may want to have a word with you.

It may very well be more. Even rabid hardened Nationalists have been known to prostrate themselves in deference to the great Mintoff’s foreign policy “li ghamel zbalji, imma nehha n-NATO, innegozja mac-Cinizi bladibladibla”.

It’s the old Muzew instructions drummed into us: Love thy neighbour. Nobody is beyond redemption. Look for the good points in everyone etc etc etc. The Blessed Order of Saint Mary the Meek, trying to run a country.

That, and fear of the other bogeyman: Libel Law.

Timber carriers, that’s the word. They had kilometres of specially (mineral?) insulated cables leading to outlets which could withstand extreme temperatures, my friends in the drawing office tell me.

One of the ‘timber carriers’ was named Kapitan Gonsharov, if my memory serves me right. Why should one name a timber carrier after a military personality?

They were built by Marsa Shipbuilding and were never bought by Russia. The deal was in US dollars which depreciated a lot after the agreement was signed by Dom and his commy Soviet counterpart.

Malta lost millions of liri, and its credibility with that political deal, thanks to Dom’s anti-west policies.

Oh, forgot to mention that Daphne, through her pressurized column, back then, reminded people of the really ‘dark days’. Was aquitted and walked one month later. Owe her a lot.