A reader has improved on my stall design

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1. Be-witched says:

   February 1, 2015 at 11:40 am

   Oh well. The Princess in one of the pantomimes this past Christmas did get 8 ‘handsome Joseph photographs’ as a gift. So why not the rest of us?

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2. Charlie H says:

   February 1, 2015 at 12:02 pm

   Gahan – any way he looks.

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3. H.P. Baxxter says:

   February 1, 2015 at 12:46 pm

   Slap a pair of little dove’s wings on each and you have yourself a line of puttini. A baroque stall to keep Kenneth happy.

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4. John says:

   February 1, 2015 at 1:14 pm

   It is a blatant lie that William Lewis was chosen to design the market stalls because he is a PL official.

   He is actually a world auhority on demountable mobile tensile structures. His expertise was required by no less than the Għaqda Madonna tal-Grazzja Banda San Mikiel Żabbar A.D.1883 to measure their feast “umbrella”.

   https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.733463946719013.1073741984.409522712446473&type=3

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5. majmuma says:

   February 1, 2015 at 4:53 pm

   One little piggy went to market…….

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   • gn says:

     February 2, 2015 at 8:53 am

     U xtara tanga. U kif kien hemm mela barmil ilma mill-funtana.

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6. Jozef says:

   February 1, 2015 at 8:28 pm

   ‘…Many people have also made this about the inherent aesthetic differences which are defined by social class. So those who shrug and say, they are not that really bothered by the white canvas/aluminum structure with the hotly debated eight pointed cross used as a kind of leif motif, are labelled as having no sense of style and are sneered at with middle class contempt, while those who are gnashing their teeth at the stalls have automatically designated themselves as the ultimate arbitrators of “good taste”. It has also inevitably become about social class/political allegiance because, you know, everything that has to do with Labour is, by definition, completely lacking in sophistication. Whereas only the PN knows how to do things with panache – I know this is true because all their latest activities at Stamperija and other fundraisers have been teeming with high-brow culture. And yeah, that’s sarcasm…’

   http://josannecassar.com/opinion/what-does-a-flea-market-mean-to-you/?t=What+does+a+flea+market+mean+to+you%3F

   Not really, Ms.Cassar, the issue here is whether public space should be exactly what it is; space reserved for the public.

   It does seem that you must transpose class misgivings onto the arguments against. That remains your problem, more so in the republican method of social merit and mobility. One where class is anything but privilege, much as you’d love it.

   And if you must amuse yourself with such anodyne means to determine whether the public’s reserve is objectively representative of good form or plainly ugly and poor, you unwittingly cause one to pity your inept mental attitude to truth.

   Trust you to apologise for Labour’s poverty in spirit as some defying cypher; it betrays your deep rooted hatred of sincerity in work and execution. Perhaps the memory of the the vicious onslaught marking that Rhodes failure, still hurts your mentis.

   indeed, how does one stand for anything when iconoclastic vandalism was all you consumed in your younger, purer days?

   That it cannot be Labour’s isn’t the PN’s prerogative, that was underlined by a prime minister out of his depth when it comes to the state. And again, it just has to be Labour to disappoint.

   Design is a behaviour not a department. Good taste in a democracy, makes life bearable and preserves sanity, notwithstanding your allergic, gut reaction.

   Animo Cassar, data l’anima persa, almeno quello.

   ‘Sense of style’ gives you away.

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