A great day for a swim
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January 2, 2014 at 5:49pm
Marlene Farrugia must have caught a bad chill, sitting there stranded on a rock soaked to the bone for 90 minutes, surrounded by a swarm of jellyfish.
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X’gharukaza, x’hela ta’ flus il-poplu.
Just love ‘her son preferred to walk’.
A woman who swims with Labour sharks, who spent years married to JPO, now scared of a shoal of jellyfish.
Gnejna Bay? There’s only one rock that’s rather inaccessible. She wasn’t on THAT rock, surely? I knew our Labour MPs were progressive and liberal, but really.
Marlene is making a habit of having to be rescued from toxic spineless creatures.
And why is this newsworthy?
[Daphne – Thank God you don’t run a newspaper, jack.]
Jilted lover no doubt.
[Daphne – You can blame Jeffrey for many things, but surely he wasn’t there pretending to be a jellyfish.]
Not that he has to pretend.
You never can tell; one spineless creature is pretty much like another.
‘She decided to swim instead of walk’ – what, in her clothes? In this weather?
Why would you assume she didn’t go there with the intention of possibly having a swim weather permitting, and so wearing a bathing costume?
It’s certainly not for me, but there are a number of people, hardier than I, who swim all year round.
Pretty sure it must have been quite an ordeal.
That doesn’t make sense. If she walked one way, then got into her bathing costume, planning to swim back – what did she plan to do with her clothes?
Alternatively, if she planned on swimming and was wearing the appropriate attire, why walk so far half naked on a cloudy day in winter? Why the strange cover story if it was at all planned after all?
Somehow or other she ended up having an unplanned swim. Her story is just a little odd seeing that people don’t usually swim in their winter clothes intentionally.
Oh Jeeeezzzusss! So many armchair detectives.
No, you’re right, Spiz. Must be some conspiracy theory. Because I mean, nobody has EVER worn a bathing suit or bikini underneath their regular clothes, on the off chance that they may fancy a dip. Nothing really “planned”, but just in case, as normal people might do.
She was with her son, who I believe is in his early 20s but I don’t know for sure. Wanna bet that he carried his Mum’s clothes back up the slope, while Mum went for her swim?
Hey I may be wrong! But for crying out loud.
She decided to swim leaving her son behind?
No, her son decided to walk, leaving her to swim.
Guess who got there.
This woman is also unbalanced. She lasted a couple of days as her partner’s assistant, she disagrees with something but votes in favour of it. Now this. What is wrong with her?
What is wrong with her, you ask. She’s Labour.
Marlene and her political career – literally on the rocks.
Jeffrey would love that.
…quick get the mug
Just like her counterpart in Copenhagen, she was Malta’s mermaid for 90 minutes.
“Her son preferred to walk”
1) so, were the cliffs not slippery for him?
2) did he have a choice? One of them had to. Who would have carried the jackets, shoes, phones, car keys, etc had they both decided to swim? Unless they had a watertight bag.
I think more will come out soon. This story has far too many loose ends. No one in his right senses goes to gnejna cliffs for a walk. It’s hardly a walk, more a struggle and a 101 in cliff climbing.
That spot is secluded all right though. Son may have gone to her rescue AFTER the incident, and AFTER having been alerted by someone else.
Dear Jason Micallef, As head of V18, your vision for Strada Stretta, permit me to say, sucks! what has Paceville style partying and clubbing to do with Valletta Culture and the Arts? Do you seriously think that such crowds will make V18 successful? i would like you and V18 taking serious and concrete measures to boost the Maltese cultural identity, the Maltese artists and see culture not as an extension of tourism but as a hallmark of its own. if you really want to understand culture, have a look at how the French look at culture and learn from them.
That’s all they know and all they’ll ever do, transpose indirect personal experience. Whimsical at best, downright inadequate and embarrassing every other day.
I wish they could understand how pitiful they look and sound, arrogance never so essential. It’s so depressing seeing them driven by ego alone, they have an issue with challenge, change, experiment and the unknown.
Those who go for a walk do not carry their bathing-suits with them just in case it rains and things get slippery. Who does that?
There seems to be some confusion about her son’s age ranging from toddler to plus/minus twenty.
[Daphne – Women of 50 do not have toddlers, Lestrade. Marlene Farrugia’s son is around 20/21.]
Where are the journalists? We should be told whether she was found in her underwear, her bathing suit, or her clothes.
What if somebody threw her into the sea?
On other media: “Swarm of jellyfish rescued from being stung by Labour MP”