Look, sorry, I’ve been distracted
There’s a deluge of comments coming in asking me where I am and why I’m not delivering the goods. My apologies, but what with one thing and another…I’m wiped out.
Anyway, please always bear in mind that this is a one-woman, free-time operation, literally just a personal blog despite all the hysterical hype by men behaving like teenage girls, and not an Evil Click/PN enterprise. It’s only possible because I write very quickly and can fit it in. It would never be possible otherwise.
This means that when I am exhausted, overworked, tired and fractious, on a plane, distracted by other demands, overwhelmed by life and deadlines, and have pressing problems elsewhere, I shall have to toddle off for a while and sleep or do other things.
This almost never happens because I can cope with exceptional amounts of stress and hassle, but over the last couple of days I’ve just had enough.
So right now I am going to do something I rarely do, which is send everyone to hell and take a long nap. Then I’ll be back in the evening with updates. I trust that’s all right with you.
Meanwhile, please keep posting comments. There are around a hundred banked up waiting for moderation and upload, but don’t fret – I’ll be doing that later on today.
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Daphne,
ara ma’ jhossokx hazin int ukoll.
Daphne, no need to feel apologetic about having a rest once in a while.
I, for one, am tremendously impressed how you manage to run your business, family and magazines and still find time to keep the blog going – often involving some serious research which our run-of-the-mill journalists do not bother about.
However, in your absence, you missed the opportunity to rub JPO’s nose further into the hole he has dug for himself. ‘Ma jiflahx jaqa’ ghan-nejk iktar’.
[Daphne – Don’t worry, I’m gearing up for that. With these things, it’s better to have the perspective afforded by a day or so.]
Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to share your views and witty remarks with us .
God bless you and sorry for the pressure. Only you can bring the story out from behind the news.
You might be a woman on your own running this, but you are now also an institution of truth and transparency, whatever the PL says.
Back in the days that Alfred Sant was the leader of the Opposition, JPO was heard making a certain statement on the radio that today should backfire on him.
He said that he had been taught that if somebody believes something but everybody else believes the opposite, then it follows that this person is in the wrong, not everyone else.
He had also said that psychologically he could even be thought of as deranged. Now doesn’t that remind you of someone’s position today?
You bloomin’ well deserve it! Always wondered how the hell you manage!
Not bad for a one-woman show. Considering that you have one European Commissioner, three government MPs and the entire opposition who are hysterically abusive about you and who expect the Prime Minister to lock you up and let you rot in jail, you’re doing exceptionally well.
Keep up the good job and look after yourself.
You are so important to me that it’s OK if you have to do your own thing. Keep well, Malta needs you.
Hear hear, Mr Charles.
ditto
Dear Daphne,
Good to hear you`re doing fine. Busy is a good thing, keeps everyone going.
Just a thought came to mind: what contract did Alfred Sant have bearing the stamp of a notary?
Didn’t JPOS rent the land out or sell the land?
A contract for rent does not need registering with the Lands, so it never needs to be public.
[Daphne – Not all contracts, agreements, etc written up by a notary are public.]
The mind boggles as I must have missed something.
And how come JPOS needed the notary again, in the last few weeks? Is this the same notary he used for his previous contract re: Mistra?
[Daphne – No, it’s not the same notary.]
And the latest JPOS spewing of garbage…. where to start!
Have a nice evening.
I rekon that you didn’t get to comment lately because you couldn’t get out of the loo. All good things in life come to an end dear.
You must be Peter ‘EFF’ Fenech. Got it wrong again mate.
Wow, if only Franco was as “biezel” as you are, then he’d really have something to boast about.
I know exactly what you mean. When I want to go far from the maddening crowd, I disconnect internet, phone, door bell, TV, switch off my mobile and use the PC just to watch copies of some silly reality show or really old movies.
I’m sure I speak on behalf of many other people when I say ‘keep it coming, Daphne; you’re doing some sterling work.’
I do not believe you are really “wiped out”.
That would be well-nigh impossible.
Anyway, nap for as long as necessary.
The last thing we need, in the circumstances, is a sleep-deprived DCG.
You have to be fighting fit and in top form.
You should relax by drinking some hot Earl Grey tea in a fine bone china cup and savour the bergamot flavouring, possibly while hiding from reporters at Mistra.
Thanks for being you and for keeping us updated with what is really happening.
Take as much rest as you need but please be back at the earliest.
We miss your posts even though most of us rarely comment. Keep up the good work.
God bless Daphne. Take all the time you need.
After these short lulls, you always come up with typical gems to the chagrin of the semi-literate elves, anyway.
Oh no what a let down. Mela you’re for real? Real life, real problems, with deadlines and all?
I always thought you were Richard Cachia Caruana writing under the nom de plume “Daphne Caruana Galizia”…..
PS: So his lordship JPO came to you and gave you a COE business card in time before he gets a ministerial one! Buffu, purcinell u bahnan.
PS2: I never imagined Gordon Pisani would become my superhero.
I’m watching TVM and there is that sorry ass, Manuel Mallia.
He thinks that the political arena is a court room. That is going to be the hallmark of the coming electoral campaign.
I have a funny feeling that even in this latest saga, Joseph has been advised by Manuel Mallia.
There has been so much interpretation of events and contortion of the meaning of what has been said that I don’t credit Joseph Muscat or those at Super One.
Emmanuela Mallia’s a joke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJxPd697QTw&feature=plcp
As long as they can, it’s theirs for the taking. He said so himself.
The PN has a duty to restore perspective, the meaning of words (don’t give me context), and the restoration of others.
Joseph Muscat has been overtaken by the Moviment posit: it cannot exist as long as there’s a real PN, that should be within the Movement ‘ta’ Maltin’ (read ta’ rieda tajba, remember that?) by now, leaving gonziPN ‘barrani’ as oppressor.
It’s a dogged determination to instill a feel-good factor about a Labour victory. The use of symbol, words, images and their decontextualisation, The playful (ludica, heda) irony, essentially Italian, is key to all this.
To be more specific, a Romanaccio burino, rightist, vulgar, rassegnato.
Sharon and her tongue sticking out, Sandro Chetcuti and his buffoonery, Toni Abela and his puppets, Joseph basically a step away from gloating at what he’s managed to create, a media circus. Not to mention the tweeters, like Mintoff and KMB man Leo Brincat.
The opposite of Dario Fo’ and Benigni, avowed enemies of Berlusconi, banished from TV, who still brought him down with a simple idea: beauty as truth.
The PN, in my view, hasn’t yet decided whether it intends to uphold it, but of course words and meaning are being twisted.
Muscat doesn’t have a persona, delegating that to everyone instead; our own Big Brother with newspapers instead of cameras, a permanent silly season.
Polls this week should indicate a saturation point and a marked increase in dissent towards politics.
You can’t blame us, Daphne… we miss you :) Still ..hope you have a well deserved rest.
OK but we cant wait to hear what you have to say – unfortunately there aren’t any other sites which give a frank unprejudiced opinion.
‘Unprejudiced’ insomma… :) But we’ll agree on Daphne’s frankness.
‘Unprejudiced’ means ‘impartial’ … not ‘too stupid to form an opinion, or too cowardly to state one’.
Well done and thanks!
Come ON Daffers – the nation awaits!
This site rocks! Love it in here.
Get that Champagne on ice!
This is the best Maltese site there is.
No doubt.
Drinking Earl Grey tea straight from the bottle. Listening to Enya and wondering what the hell happened to my life, as I stroke the pussy which followed me home from Mistra. Waiting for new posts from Daphne so as to have new excuses to go ballistic in public and make myself look utterly ridiculous.
How can he manage to make himself even more ridiculous and dafter then he has already?
If I was him I would take a perpetual vow of silence and consider joining, for the rest of my life, some Trappist monks’ order on some remote mountain.
Once you’re there, just check if the crying bodygaurd is still outside. Or has Joseph stopped paying for him?
Poor security guards. Don’t tell me that yesterday he made them wait for 5 hours to come out of that meeting and tell them “Take me home – I have said enough for today.”
Ooops, I meant the body guards.
Welcome back!
Thats very inconsiderate of you, Daphne. And what are we supposed to do while you nap?
Can’t you not prepare some “reserve articles” and upload those when you want a break?
Love it. Well deserved nap indeed.