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	Comments on: Larkin, Nico, Nora, Tania and Silvio Abela of Adventure Camping: By Royal Appointment &#8211; purveyors of The North Face to the House of Muscat	</title>
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		By: Jo		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2014 01:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1396451&quot;&gt;TROY&lt;/a&gt;.

Tell us more.......]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1396451">TROY</a>.</p>
<p>Tell us more&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
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		By: Jo		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2014 01:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1396402&quot;&gt;Manuel&lt;/a&gt;.

He must have learnt it at that posh school Silvio paid for him and his brother to attend.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1396402">Manuel</a>.</p>
<p>He must have learnt it at that posh school Silvio paid for him and his brother to attend.</p>
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		By: Jo		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2014 00:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1397227&quot;&gt;Silvio Abela tal-SMU&lt;/a&gt;.

In response to your post below about his interesting past, what else do you know about the first wife and British daughter?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1397227">Silvio Abela tal-SMU</a>.</p>
<p>In response to your post below about his interesting past, what else do you know about the first wife and British daughter?</p>
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		By: R. Azzopardi		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[R. Azzopardi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 09:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lying, thieving scum.  My memory harks back to approximately 14 years ago when I started to renew my camping equipment.  

Back then, there were two major suppliers - this bugger and a small shop in Testaferrata Street which is now closed.  

The chap at Testaferrata Street supplied a particular brand (a veru reputable one). Our friend Silvio also sold a very reputable brand (which was more expensive). Naturally, he rubbished his competitor&#039;s brand.  A few years later he became the agent for his ex-competitor&#039;s brand.  Overnight, the brand he loathed so much became the best on the market.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lying, thieving scum.  My memory harks back to approximately 14 years ago when I started to renew my camping equipment.  </p>
<p>Back then, there were two major suppliers &#8211; this bugger and a small shop in Testaferrata Street which is now closed.  </p>
<p>The chap at Testaferrata Street supplied a particular brand (a veru reputable one). Our friend Silvio also sold a very reputable brand (which was more expensive). Naturally, he rubbished his competitor&#8217;s brand.  A few years later he became the agent for his ex-competitor&#8217;s brand.  Overnight, the brand he loathed so much became the best on the market.</p>
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		By: Silvio Abela tal-SMU		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Silvio Abela tal-SMU]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 02:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1396554&quot;&gt;H.P. Baxxter&lt;/a&gt;.

He got that camp site in 1997 - Labour government.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1396554">H.P. Baxxter</a>.</p>
<p>He got that camp site in 1997 &#8211; Labour government.</p>
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		By: Silvio Abela tal-SMU		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Silvio Abela tal-SMU]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 02:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1396503&quot;&gt;Jozef&lt;/a&gt;.

Not half as interesting as the rest of his story. Silvio Abela&#039;s first wife back in the 1980s when he was a policeman with the SMU was a British woman. They had a daughter together. 

That wife left him and, during separation proceedings in court, accused him of beating her and of lurid, violent behaviour in other quarters. She fled to Britain and took the child with her.

Silvio then mated with this Tania mill-Belt, who already had a child by a Sicilian to whom she was briefly married (Nora - which is why Nora has a Sicilian surname; she isn&#039;t Silvio&#039;s).

Tania and Silvio then had two sons together, Larkin and Nico. They married after their spouses divorced them in Britain and Italy.

Silvio played no part in the life of his British daughter, who was brought up by her mother, and has only just got back in touch with her and met his grandchildren (her children) for the first time.

Oh, and don&#039;t be fooled by Nora&#039;s man-eating poses. She&#039;s a lesbian who used to date a hairdresser who dumped her. One of her half-brothers looks to be gay as well, if not both of them, which makes you wonder about all this rubbish said about homosexuality not being genetic.

And you have to notice that they didn&#039;t imprison themselves in LGBT Labour like the other suckers, but stayed in the mainstream with the hoodie crowd.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1396503">Jozef</a>.</p>
<p>Not half as interesting as the rest of his story. Silvio Abela&#8217;s first wife back in the 1980s when he was a policeman with the SMU was a British woman. They had a daughter together. </p>
<p>That wife left him and, during separation proceedings in court, accused him of beating her and of lurid, violent behaviour in other quarters. She fled to Britain and took the child with her.</p>
<p>Silvio then mated with this Tania mill-Belt, who already had a child by a Sicilian to whom she was briefly married (Nora &#8211; which is why Nora has a Sicilian surname; she isn&#8217;t Silvio&#8217;s).</p>
<p>Tania and Silvio then had two sons together, Larkin and Nico. They married after their spouses divorced them in Britain and Italy.</p>
<p>Silvio played no part in the life of his British daughter, who was brought up by her mother, and has only just got back in touch with her and met his grandchildren (her children) for the first time.</p>
<p>Oh, and don&#8217;t be fooled by Nora&#8217;s man-eating poses. She&#8217;s a lesbian who used to date a hairdresser who dumped her. One of her half-brothers looks to be gay as well, if not both of them, which makes you wonder about all this rubbish said about homosexuality not being genetic.</p>
<p>And you have to notice that they didn&#8217;t imprison themselves in LGBT Labour like the other suckers, but stayed in the mainstream with the hoodie crowd.</p>
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		By: Silvio Abela tal-SMU		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Silvio Abela tal-SMU]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 02:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1396402&quot;&gt;Manuel&lt;/a&gt;.

Well he was never going to learn it from his parents, was he.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1396402">Manuel</a>.</p>
<p>Well he was never going to learn it from his parents, was he.</p>
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		By: Silvio Abela tal-SMU		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Silvio Abela tal-SMU]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 02:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1396143&quot;&gt;mad&lt;/a&gt;.

They got that Mellieha site in 1997 from Alfred Sant&#039;s government.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1396143">mad</a>.</p>
<p>They got that Mellieha site in 1997 from Alfred Sant&#8217;s government.</p>
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		By: Dissident		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dissident]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 00:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wonder why people are still so stupid to buy their overpriced stuff when you can get them half the price on sites like Amazon]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wonder why people are still so stupid to buy their overpriced stuff when you can get them half the price on sites like Amazon</p>
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		By: george grech		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[george grech]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 23:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1396143&quot;&gt;mad&lt;/a&gt;.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20030530/local/armier-camp-site-developer-meets-another-snag.149047#.Upz6x-KwXOM

The land for the campsite was &#039;awarded&#039; to Silvio Abela in 1997 by a then labour government.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/larkin-nico-nora-tania-and-silvio-abela-of-adventure-camping-by-royal-appointment-purveyors-of-the-north-face-to-the-house-of-muscat/#comment-1396143">mad</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20030530/local/armier-camp-site-developer-meets-another-snag.149047#.Upz6x-KwXOM" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20030530/local/armier-camp-site-developer-meets-another-snag.149047#.Upz6x-KwXOM</a></p>
<p>The land for the campsite was &#8216;awarded&#8217; to Silvio Abela in 1997 by a then labour government.</p>
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