Sentry box ‘stil rustiku’
Published:
May 13, 2014 at 8:43am
The prime minister has had a sentry box built outside his house in Burmarrad. It’s made of varnished pine and is comfortably appointed so that the specially selected Taghna Lkoll policemen who sit there in shifts can amuse themselves reading, eating, fidgeting with Facebook and so on.
Burmarrad is a very quiet place and Malta doesn’t have the sort of journalists who doorstep the prime minister entering or leaving his home as they would at Number Ten. I’d say a fair number don’t even know where he lives.
So the policeman on sentry duty has a right boring time of it.
Now they are going to install air-conditioning for the hotter months.
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Pity they did not include a little kitchenette and steps for an overhead bunk-bed.
No need for that: Michelle will be supplying sangwigis and pastizzi with the occasional cold beer.
Or gincerbredmen.
Don’t leave out the ginger-bread men.
Le. Qammiela dik. Tiddubbahom minn Kastilja.
No, she’ll be providing soppa tal-armla.
U ġinġerbredmen. Insejtuhom? U fis-sajf xi naqra selit.Imma kif ma tgħaddix ġurnata u ma nisimgħux b’xi praspura jew oħra. Ara veru morna l-baħar jew kif kien jgħid tajjeb Lawrence Gonzi qabel l-elezzjoni…gas down ġol ħajt deħlin.
And a little kennel, a washroom on top and pots of sardinell hanging from those ‘windows’.
X’affarijiet dawn.
Oh yes, the kennel for the underdokk.
U dixx tas-satelita ghal World Cup f’ Gunju.
Labour really do manage to turn paying someone for doing nothing into a fine art.
And if the PM’s paranoia begins to reach Mintoffian levels, then I half expect him to start carrying a flask with him soon enough. He seems to be making enough enemies to warrant.a little extra caution.
And what is this fixation with his personal security? He has at least six bodyguards and now this sentry. Is he being threatened?
Well, he might be threatened by those whom he promised a gopp mal-kfern before 9th March 2013.
How sweet, the sentry box matches the PM’s home decor
Looks like one of those stalls you find at the market abroad. Selling Tuna?
Tuna Lkoll Stall.
Malta Tuna Lkoll.
Looks like he’s wearing a bulletproof vest as well.
Yes I know, morphine.
Kinda cute really, if they hinged the two lower panels, the policeman gets to enjoy a breeze around his legs.
I mean, it looks suspiciously like some vetrina/cupboard thingy advertised on junk mail.
They could add a little awning, in red and white stripes, taf int.
U dawk ic-circuit breakers nghid jien, minn fejn haduh id-dawl?
Ghallinqas tawha Cuprinol?
Dak se jbieh l-imqaret minn hemm?
It is by now apparent that our prime minister gets his rocks off by being surrounded by bodyguards and policemen, flashing lights, sirens, outriders and the sort.
He can now drag his ever-expanding mass out of bed in the middle of the night, peep out of his window and in doing so, get his fix of testosterone that he cannot get from anything else. Then it’s off to the gym the next day (or the day after) to find a release.
A previous comment asked a very pertinent question. Is the Prime Minister being threatened? The extreme Left, like the extreme Right, is not a bunch you’d want to piss off!
Menu:
SUMMER
Cold Beer
Tuna Lkoll Sandwiches
and the speciality – Froga using Faberge Eggs
WINTER
Mulled Wine
Ginger Bread Man
and the specialit – Pudina
You forgot the dessert:
Iced buns
You forgot the ‘soup’ u ‘selit’.
Are you sure that’s not a converted wardrobe?
Tad-doughnuts jghaddi minn Burmarrad?
U tal-bigilla?
These comments are hilarious. Keep them coming. They are very entertaining to us poor sods waiting for our turn wherever.
LOL. Ma niflaħx nidħak aktar b’dawn il-kummenti. You made my day. Aktar kummenti please.
That’s a refurbished TARDIS. Or a retardis.
Is a MEPA permit required for something like that?
More than a MEPA permit, what is required here is MEPA enforcement. With the armed forces, helicopters, bozoz tal-plastic…
What’s the purpose of what looks more like a toolshed then a sentry box?
If it rains he’s still going to get wet given that half of it is open. In summer when it’s 40 degrees all he’ll need is some coal, a wooden bucket and ladle and he can enjoy a sauna. So this masterpiece is in fact a shower in December and a sauna in August.
Here’s from where they got it:
http://freshome.com/2011/02/01/wardrobe-and-sauna-combined-badkast-by-anna-van-der-lei/
That’s the box office for tickets to a home tour of the Royal Residence.
Nothing unusual here. It’s called a copboard.
And what is that road sign doing behind the wardrobe-turned-police-hut?
Looks like he is waiting for Dr. WHO with all those wires above.