Comments on: The hairdresser who made enough money to buy a Mercedes SLK: a novella by H. P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/the-hairdresser-who-made-enough-money-to-buy-a-mercedes-slk-a-novella-by-h-p-baxxter/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:34:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Marlowe https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/the-hairdresser-who-made-enough-money-to-buy-a-mercedes-slk-a-novella-by-h-p-baxxter/#comment-1191434 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:34:16 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36298#comment-1191434 Bless you Baxxter, a few laughs a day keep the Labour blues away.

]]> By: Min Jaf https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/the-hairdresser-who-made-enough-money-to-buy-a-mercedes-slk-a-novella-by-h-p-baxxter/#comment-1191425 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:30:15 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36298#comment-1191425 In reply to P Shaw.

Heqq, ir-rahal ismu mieghu, mhux hekk.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/the-hairdresser-who-made-enough-money-to-buy-a-mercedes-slk-a-novella-by-h-p-baxxter/#comment-1191424 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:30:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36298#comment-1191424 Actually, I was inspired by my real hairdresser, or rather my barber. An honest yeoman by the name of Salvu. And something of an institution. He seems to get more buddies dropping in with a glass of milky tea and a soggy bag of greasy pastizzi than clients asking for a haircut.

Anyway, I was getting my usual short back and sides the other day, when Salvu’s best mate Pawlu dropped in. He’d just come back from a Mediterranean cruise with his wife.

As Salvu held my head with his vice-like grip, shearing off my locks and giving me a noseful of bad breath, Pawlu was telling him about the delights on board the luxury cruise liner.

“U tiekel kemm trid, Salv!”

“Bl-inbid u l-whisky b’killex?”

“L-ikel b’xej’, Salv. Imbaghad tixri biljett, erbghin Ewro, u tixtri xorb kemm trid.”

Salvu was onto the cut-throat razor now, touching up my nape (he anoints it with Vaseline out of a tub; the razor he just picks off the counter).

“Allura Pawlu, naghtu kaz tkun trid tara show tan-nisa… jinzghew…ikun hemm ukell?” said the veteran barber, miming the action of sliding off a bra strap with razor in hand.

“Minn killex ikun hemm, Salv. Minn killex.”

Goes to show, I thought. It’s always one thing. It’s always that. Everyone’s after quim.

]]> By: TinaB https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/the-hairdresser-who-made-enough-money-to-buy-a-mercedes-slk-a-novella-by-h-p-baxxter/#comment-1191417 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:28:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36298#comment-1191417 Brilliant.

Give us more, HP Baxxter.

]]> By: P Shaw https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/the-hairdresser-who-made-enough-money-to-buy-a-mercedes-slk-a-novella-by-h-p-baxxter/#comment-1191411 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:25:34 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36298#comment-1191411 Hal Ghaxaq sounds like a hot place to be.

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