I cannot imagine Dr. Zammit Dimech going to the trouble of requesting permission to enter Mdina for a 10-minute meeting with RCC and then nobody sees him leaving. This is absurd and in my opinion is another case of libel, given the circumstances.

If someone goes out of their way – spends money – to obtain personalised number plates, making a public display of their initials on their car, drawing attention to themselves whenever they journey, I think they are hardly in a position to complain about public comment.

I find it a constant source of amusement and distraction, whilst in traffic, to conjure up names for the occupants of cars around me, based on their number plates.

Daphne, you have not spoken about Joseph’s number-plate, even though you have spoken on his having a flashy car, have you? Is it only me, or is it really in extremely bad taste?

[Daphne – I don’t have a problem with discussing number-plates, and I’m not quite sure that the number-plates of public persons are private.]

Even so, would he use a car with a “personalised” number plate to go to a secret ten-minute meeting? Shades of the “meeting” at the Westin.

Seriously, if FZD was spotted entering Mdina at 11:05, he had to park and actually walk to RCC’s residence which would have taken at least five more minutes, given that parking within the city is not really a breeze.

So the two would have supposedly met at 11:10. but wait, RCC was seen leaving Mdina at 11:15, so he must have left home earlier than 11.15.

Conclusion: either the two had the shortest meeting in the history of short meetings or else they didn’t meet at all.

Yet another conclusion to be drawn is that FZD is not even entitled to go to Mdina now. It is an out-of-bounds city for him. We’re sorry, Francis, no more coffees at Fontanella for you.

Oh come on, for crying out loud. How low can they stoop?

Can somebody correct me or confirm my understanding on this matter?

If I am right, how could Dr. Zammit Dimech enter Mdina with his car with number plate FZD.

[Daphne – You can get permission to drive in, if you are not a resident.]

It was not clear if RCC left Mdina in a car.

If he did, he may have tied up Francis Zammit Dimech, gagged him, shoved him in the car-boot and, unaware of Maria L-Maws’s secret agents at each gate to the city, drove off to some undisclosed location to deal with him.

The plot thickens. More updates on Maltastar and Super One later.

Qabez xih min fuq mejda ohra u qal (lil-hanut kollu) “Mela ivvota lin-Nazzjonalisti, ghax huma iktar xellugin.”

Though the exchange was particularly entertaining, I could not but feel bewildered at the idea of “principji” and Labour being used in the same sentence.

RCC inhasad meta ra lil FZD diehel l-Mdina, u telaq jigri l-barra? Ma nahsibx.

Tal-MaltaStar ma ghandhomx biex jimlew il-pagni taghhom? Mid-dehra.

Tal-MaltaStar ma jsarrfu xejn? Certament.