It’s August, and the Speaker of the House is ‘bil-lijf’
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August 13, 2014 at 5:45pm
So he ditches his business attire, puts on his ‘clearing out the garage’ outfit, and walks through the streets of the capital city just the same.
These pictures were taken in Strait Street at around three o’clock this afternoon.
Litteralment bla dekor.
The person who took these pictures stopped right in front of him, hovering to get a good angle, and the Speaker didn’t even realise. He was busy looking for someone in Vincenti Buildings and was on the phone for instructions. Shiv Nair, perhaps?
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Ragel sabih.
He is more handsome than Toni Abela, but that is no big feat.
Ara, tghiduli xejn , but his muscular calves do it for me .
Is is the office of Shiv Nair that he is looking for? Maybe he wants his cut as well.
Is it at the Fourth Floor as well?
Perhaps they’re scripting the results for the next electoral observation missions.
Mosti relax fil-gimgha ta’ Santa Marija – qed jimita lill-Ambaxxatur tal-Belgju.
Mix-xehta ta’ rasu jidher li kellu xi laqa’ Vincenti Buildings u ma kienx jaf liema kien il-bieb.
Abroad I recently saw a high ranking political foreign personality in shorts in a city centre. Even PM Cameron was photographed in similar attire when he was on holiday. So I doubt that wearing summer attire in a city in stifling heat by a VIP are a lack of decorum.
[Daphne – Come off it, David. Please. Women in their 50s and 60s don’t walk around in shorts or small skirts unless they are a certain type, and it’s just as hot for us as it is for men. It’s not only age and location that are the issues here, but figure type too. Anglu Farrugia is hardly David Cameron on holiday, is he.]
Daphne, that is a really good point. Style and decorum should be retained. Last week I had an errand to run in a shop in Merchants Street and so I had to cross over from Gozo.
As I was dressing, my wife advised me that considering the expected heat wave temperatures I, should put on a shorts, something which I did. But after a look at the mirror and a thoughtful moment I queried: what if I have to pass through Republic Street and met someone who I knew? I would feel bad.
So I immediately put on clothes which while feeling cool were more appropriate to my age and figure, as well as my status in life. Well I am just a sixty year old head of school coming from a lowly worker family. My mother had no education to speak of, because she was kept at home to help out. But her advice and her hands-on practice was that from day 1 after my birth I was always kept prim and proper in dress besides other things. Unfortunately I did not make it to the Speaker’s chair.
Thank you for raising the point, and I raise you one (a glass. What were you thinking?) for refusing to bow to the bestial standards of Maltese sartorialism.
When you look at photographs of the Raj, and the North-West Frontier, and Uganda and other infernally hot places, and see those civil servants impeccably turned out in suits, there’s no excuse for modern man. If they did it, so can we.
The secret to beating the heat is the fabric. Linen is cool works well, but it creases. Fine wool works just as well, and is just as cool. And for the discerning tropical gentleman, a blend of fine wool and silk. A light-coloured suit reflects the heat, and the ladies love it, because you stand out from the sea of standard-issue, black-suited lawyers.
I’ve always been partial to a cravat. If Richard England can pull it off, why should I deny myself the pleasure?
Norman Lowell does it all wrong, wrapping a tie around his throat, scarf-like. Rather baffling. I mean the man’s been to Rhodesia when it was still Rhodesia. Didn’t he learn anything?
And a hat. Indispensable. That’s the one item that really keeps you cool, and looking cool if I may borrow a modern and progressive idiom. For vertically-challenged barstewards like me, trilbies work better than Panamas, which tend to have huge brims. A good one though, not those souvenir of Malta, Chinese paper imitations that go limp as soon as you break a sweat.
That, and plenty of Pimm’s. That’s your summer survival kit.
Kellux xi bicca xoghol ta’ tikhil, jew ta’ tiswija fil-‘flushing’?
Oh, I see he is representing the ‘highest institution of the land’ in great style.
Let me guess. Jason Micallef’s Ostin Reet “garden apparel” cast-offs from the first season of NaturaAmbjent, 1992?
The man, however, can accessorise like there’s no tomorrow. Note the intello-cool “Peppi” splitting half-moons.
Yepp, what else do you expect from Inspector Gadget?
Tucks force biex isib il-wajer tad-dawl li nqata’ ilbierah.
What an ugly body. I say this because he can do something about it and it is not a born disability.
Well, thoughts are divided on whether there is something he can do about it.
Disappointments are often flushed down in proportionate quantity and quality choice.
He’d have to tackle the disappointment issues first, and I don’t see that happening.
Same with Meril Weez and Joseph Muscat.
There’s no internal equilibrium.
Kumbinazzjoni kont ghaddej mill-istess post u l-istess hin fejn kien ghaddej Dr Farrugia.
Veru ammirrajt u ikollok trid u ma tridx taqbel, li ghalkemm huwa l-iSpeaker baqa mal-poplu.
BY THE WAY NISTAQSI, MIN HA R-RITRATTI KONT INT DAPHNE GHAX JEKK MHUX INT XI HADT VERU JIXBHEK! FORSI OHTOK?
sewwa jghid il-malti : l-ajru ghandu ghajnu u l-hajt ghandu widintu
[Daphne – Ghandek zball (kbir). Min ha r-ritratti ma jixbahni xejn.]
Maybe he was looking for compensation after the #blackout.
Truly a leader! Understands the entire spectrum of people, and unlike most is not proud or need certain attire to show his dignity and respect. Perhaps this is too difficult for certain people to understand, but that’s ok. The world needs all sorts and shapes of human beings. Including people who have nothing else to do, but bad mouth others. May you all have a wonderful day!
Truly a leader! Understands the entire spectrum of people, and unlike most is not proud or need certain attire to show his dignity and respect. Perhaps this is too difficult for certain people to understand, but that’s ok. The world needs all sorts and shapes of human beings. Including people who have nothing else to do, but bad mouthing others. May you all have a wonderful day!
you should see him “jokking” in the morning in Triq id-Durumblat Mosta / Attard
Dak kien sejjer ghand Manuel forsi jdahhlu pulizija.
Mbaghad taparsi dahal faccata.
Forsi cempillu xi hadd mil-Azerbaijan biex ‘jirringrazzjah’ ta’ kemm fahhar id-demokrazija li tezisti fil-pajjiz.
Was the car parked somewhere with the engine still running or did he use an elephant?
Oh David give us a break why don’t you provide photos so we can make a comparison cause holidaying is one thing and going through the capital city on foot is another.
At least he had been observing the law.
Note the diagonal sweat band from the seat belt across the T-shirt in the top photo.
Nesa l-erkondixin mitfi.
Forsi mar undercover! He is an ex – police officer after all. Send in the clowns!