Very, very funny, Nearly fell off my chair.

Yes, a Victorian horror vacui. Life becomes a series of written chapters to look back upon fondly.

The objects shown belong to someone who thinks these meaningless if not to impart a belonging to a social stratum.

Ruskin spent all his life condemning the attitude; a hypocrisy in refusing the machine aesthetic. Crisp geometry where truth prevails over social pressure to ‘style’

An individual’s longing to hide the real needs of a domestic advanced economy will, in the end, refuse the mechanics of modernity bringing it down.

The lampshade is particularly hateful, the kitchen, a doll’s house. Hogarth would have begged to portray the manifest idiosyncracies. .

No function, form or anything between the two. No synthesis or abstraction. Meaning is subjective, emotional and irrational.

I wouldn’t be suprised if Michelle guards her diaries and scrapbooks vehemently.

Biex isewwi xi qattus forsi jinqala’. Biex imexxi lil Malta, izda, ZGUR LI LE – anki jekk isir prim ministru.

Birds of a feather flock together. Hens of a brood cackle alike.

Some time ago, while pushing my grandson’s pushcair on the Sliema seafront, I had the honour of meeting Mrs Gonzi doing that with her own grandson.

I felt so comfortable talking to a real lady – and have since been looking forward to meeting her when the occasion comes up again.

I hope Me Shall doesn’t feel jealous about this. Not that I actually care a fig if she does, of course.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=myEpap3TxVs

What do we do now?

The professional conman is never at fault. This is the perfect opportunity to diss, why miss it?

Exactly “fijja” or “tajnijjom”. God, I can’t stand it.

Jew dik kienet xalla?

Imma xalla ma tilbisiex gewwa, u jekk tkun se tiekol malajr jista’ jaqghalek it-tarf taghha fis-soppa.

Forsi ma nifihmx.

I also like their names – one of my aunts was “iz-zija Stella”.

Let’s keep them out for their sake.

Do they go running around at home in their school uniforms?