“Our government is making hay while the sun shines” – Justyne Caruana
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August 4, 2014 at 7:29pm
The Parliamentary Secretary for Old People, Justyne ‘Chopper Squad’ Caruana, had a piece published in The Malta Independent on Sunday yesterday.
It opens with the immortal lines:
Summer is at its peak and, quite rightly, many of us are engaged in maximising well-earned holiday time. However, our government is making hay while the sun shines and our endeavours are making progress, even during the summer holidays.
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There is no doubt about this.
And his cronies are busily hoarding the hay in their Shanghai stores.
There must be a lot of descendants of stupid Irish people in Malta.
[Daphne – I’m a descendant of an Irish person, Ken (as you call tell by looking at me), so I take exception to that.]
How do you burn an Irish woman’s ear? Phone her while she’s ironing.
I really don’t think the Maltese are in any position to be calling anybody stupid anymore. So step away from the Irish jokes, they no longer apply here.
Don’t give Joseph Muscat ideas to break the ice with some Irish politician.
Which ministry is directly responsible for this ingenious task? We might have a few PQs on the subject.
The one Muscat runs, for starters.
Next week, composixin bil-Malti.
‘Dawra bil-karozza’.
Jien irrid naghmilha bil-helicopter tal AFM, nista?
Hay, horses and mouths. They cannot deny it now. Justyne has confirmed what Mrs. Muscat once said, “Qed niehdu li nistghu minn din l-opportunita'”.
What I am doing this summer
by H.P. Baxxter (aged 7 1/2)
Summer is at its peak. While the blazing sun shines overhead, I am maximising a well-earned holiday. Moreover, I am making hay while the sun shines.
By day, you will find me at the beach, where, without fear of erring, I will gaze upon our fine, blue, Mediterranean sea. By night, you will find me enjoying the various cultural activities which the Maltese Islands offer to tourists and locals alike. However, all work and no play makes Baxxter a dull boy, so I make sure I play and make more hay, and so to Paceville till the break of day.
Summer is a special time in Malta. One may visit the beach again, or perhaps sample some of our fine traditional Maltese food, such as spaghetti rabbit, hobz biz-zejt and chicken breast. One may also learn English at one of our outstanding English language schools. Of course I do not need this since English is my mother’s tongue. If one feels like more traditional activities, one may indulge in a village feast or a beer festival, where one may sample some of our fine outstanding Maltese Cisk beer and even listen to various tribute bands, and perhaps even catch a glimpse of the delectable Ira Losco, and the handsome but not delectable Joseph Calleja.
Summer in Malta is truly special, but since the sun shines all year, I make hay all year round and so I will buy a massive yacht by the time I am nine, so I can spend my summer in a nicer place.
Of course making hay while the sun shines, our Prime Minister replaced the so called flixkun tal-plastic helicopter with a new one for your services.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-06-14/news/the-new-afm-helicopter-aw-139-arrives-at-air-wing-5473861632/
Government, he makes hay while the sun shines and our endeavours are progressing while the rest of the Maltese relax drinking the Kool Aid on the beach with the t-you-rists.
We pushed forward the full moon and did the August moon ball when it was only a quarter full so that Malta could have more sunshine so the government he make more hay and more endeavours to progress.
This government, he works tiresomely for the good and the wealth of the people.
Her government makes hay all the year round in Sunny Malta.
Unfortunately, all the hay ends up in the troughs of the taghna lkoll sounder.
Rumour has it that they bought state of the art machinery to compress a large amount of hay to save on space. The compressed HAY was then deposited in coffers, however there is no record or information as to where these coffers have been transported.
Sure, we have a haywire government anyway.
Ma tridx tkun bozza tal-plastik biex tifimha lil din.
Brilliant, Justyne! ‘Our government’ will soon be giving us hay to eat. Wonder if she ever read Animal Farm.
Someone needs to lend them the First Aid in English (not the one with bandages)… or this (together with other Freudian slips) is one of the few honest statements by the Government.
She does not understand the idiom at its most basic level. The idiom taken in isolation implies that hard times are ahead.
I find it disturbing that an MP, and one with a university degree, does not have a functional grasp of one of Malta’s official languages. It’s about time that the University stops handing out degrees to such people.
Even if the article was written by her ghost writer, she must have seen it and given the go ahead for its publication, so there is no excuse.
If anyone should be making hay it’s the Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture. He’s too busy looking for loopholes to appease hunters and trappers, however.
Justyne, now that you are in government, do you still believe that P.N. supporters are not part of your family?
Well you do not have to answer me since your leader amply confirmed this through the meritocracy principle he practised during these last 16 months.
Ah finally someone who says the truth, albeit unwittingly.
Oh for more breakfast shows….
Does she know that she is actually saying that she is sure that hard times are round the corner and that she is making the best of the time left??
The idiom refers originally refers to making hay before it’s too late and its meaning is still clear even if you have hay for a brain.
If she wanted to sound literate and wanted an idiom to expresses the notion that she is working while others are on holiday, there are plenty.
Also the “quite rightly” bit is patronizing and disgusting. Does she think that most people have a summer recess like parliament does and the wage and benefits of a minister?
“While the sun shines”… Why? Are stormy days expected soon Justyne?