[Daphne – Oh God, Eddy Privitera. Are you still alive? I can’t believe it. When are you ghouls going to lie back down and pull the lids of your coffins across?]

I always knew him as Giuseppi Marija Camilleri and never addressed him as Giezu Marija.

[Daphne – Round my neck of the woods he was never known as anything other than Giezu Maria.]

Uff kemm int stupid hi. You waist money by putting it in a bumbag and tying it round your waist. Elementary my dear Voter.

Shall I cry?

Dan il-lanzit kollu ghalfejn? Come on love each other and tolerate each other. Daphne this is causing great stress to you and your family, especially your sons. Is it worth it? Stress is bad for the heart and can lead to death.

[Daphne – Sorry, but I don’t share your attitude. The surest way to ensure widespread problems is for individuals to say and do nothing for the sake of a quiet life, and that’s a major reason Malta ended up in the shit in the 1970s and 1980s. People left it up to the political parties. This is no longer a peasant society, so peasant thinking of keeping your head down has no place in it. As for my family, we all have much the same personality and attitude (which shouldn’t come as a surprise) and my sons are, like the children of politicians, raised in this environment and take it for granted as normal. It has actually been very beneficial to them in many ways, by making them far more clued-up and perceptive than average.]

Kieku veru sahhara kont nitolbok taghtihom mohh, jekk joghgbok.

Joseph?

@ timmy spiteri – I tried very hard to understand what the hell he was going on about, but then decided to have a good laugh instead of crying.

Antoine – he was, in fact, commonly known as Giezu Maria, though it wasn’t his proper name. He was the son of Sir Luigi Camilleri.

You put it in a waist paper basket, as Toni-uncle-of-Ronnie-Pellegrini famously called it.

John, yes, you’re right. For some reason i always thought of him as Ġiezu Marija.