No, Lola, you should be proud of who you are, however little or big you may be. I love cars, but my car, does not dictate how big or small in status I may be. Neither do I need one to give me a reputation as I’ve worked very hard for that, and would not dare lose it for trying to be something I am not or for someone I can’t be.

To be someone with a reputation and losing it, is one thing.

To be no one with a reputation and losing it, is probably the worst thing that can happen to anyone.

How cruel.

By the way, when it’s a girl, it’s with the Y.

[Daphne – Not necessarily, no. There were a couple of Silvias in my class at school. Sylvia is the English version; Silvia the Italian.]

Leopardi’s muse.

Italian romantic literature is dire, but it did inspire Gabry Ponte’s remix. For small mercies…

I do not think that politics has to do anything here.

It is the judge who in his wisdom awarded such a huge sum for work not done. Who is going to appeal the sentence?

A portent of things to come.

Sometimes I wonder, why is it the men with my name .are always in Sh.. ?

Maybe because they both start with an S.
e.g.
Silvio Berluscon
Silvio Parnis
Silvio Zammit
Silvio (the one in and out of prison)
Silvio (me) always on the receiving end of Daphne’s onslaught
And now Silvio Meli (the money no problem judge}

Well life goes on and the Silvios will be always in the news (mostly bad).

[Daphne – I’ll tell you why I think it is: it’s because they were raised by the sort of parents who would call a boy Silvio. Funnily, though, girls called Silvia did just fine.]

Daphne,can the A.G. appeal against this judgment?

[Daphne – It doesn’t have to be the AG. The hospital might have its own lawyers.]

My thoughts exactly, and secondly who promoted this upstanding member of the judiciary to a judge?

Unless this decision is challenged in court it becomes a precedent on which future cases will be judged.

This I expect will put some sense into those persons that fire and hire without any considerations.