San Anton Gardens Taghna Lkoll – who needs a meditating space when people nowadays confuse a quiet place with dead space.

Restoration, Jozef. Like Charles II’s return.

We must restore glory and beauty, and in beauty find joy. For have banished joy.

Could she not have chosen some original name for her plan? Dan ghax xi darba marret Londra, or is it some bright suggestion from Norman Hamilton, who thought of this original idea.

She speaks of beauty.

The President controls the President’s Garden situated across the road at the side of San Anton Palace — under Dr. Abela’s presidency known as the President’s Kitchen Garden — and the private part of San Anton garden including the citrus grove. I think the latter part of the garden is the one which was referred to recently as open to newly-weds for taking photos but I stand to be corrected.

I am posting this simply by way of information. Perhaps one may check its accuracy.

She is neither worth nor worthy of the effort.

Ok Matthew, if the head of state has to be told her idea contradicts her role, perhaps she has no place in San Anton.

I don’t even want to move an inch what has to or cannot be done. When the idea is so insipid to exclude anything beyond Malta hanina hobza u sardina, refusing to engage in ‘dialogue’ is dialogue itself.

Let’s sell all works of art and national treasures to provide for the poor shall we? Because that’s what’s happening here, the garden is a whole, it’s architecture, not something which hasn’t yet been put to good use. Or unbuilt.

If she, and the average Maltese, (I take full responsibility for that) don’t even distinguish the garden for the trees, utility an excuse to vandalise memory, taste the result thereof, geometry unchangeable and truth irrevocable, perhaps it’s time they moved. Just this once.

I’ve had people over who just couldn’t understand the national allergy to colour, scent, proportion, harmony, silence, void or method.

This is not the time to revert to gentle patronising of the pleb, which perhaps is what describes those whose indolence traps them in a cult unforgiving of any other language, to save one’s skin. And maybe keep privilege.

We know what happened when that was tried, two decades of total isolation and mental rape.

Where’s Astrid’s molto pittoresco bunch when you need them? Or Pamela Hansen, Marie Benoit and all the other Malta bene who’ll drop names and titles for a living?

Things will come to a head and this will be fundamental. There will be those who’ll push for ‘restoration’ and those who’ll approve of Her Excellency’s social misanthropy.

Restoration implies mindset, reconciliation failed.