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Wind Howling, Heart Trembling
A vicious pack of banshees. This is what a northeast wind at gale force sounds like.
Occasionally, Malta certainly gets hurtled and hurt by this...
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Emeralds and Sapphires in Your Hand
TAORMINA IS NOT SIMPLY AN IDYLL KISSED BY THE GODS.
IT SITS IN THE LAP OF THE GODS.
Close your eyes and imagine a town...
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The Wonder of Flitting Glimpses
A strange or forgotten sound. A fluttering movement. A flash of colour out of the corner of your eye. One or a symphony of all...
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Chew Over Your Week
TGIF is what helps us to wake up and goad us on at the end of a long week of slog. And given our...
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What November 11 Means to Me
11 o’clock on November 11, 1918 signalled the end of World War 1. As the guns fell silent putting an end to the first...
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When Patriotism Becomes the Virtue of the Vicious
November brings its yearly associations of death whose reverberance urges many families to visit cemeteries where their dearest are laid to rest and somehow...
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Are We Petals on a Wet, Black Bough?
I have just sown a few bulbs of freesias. Rain clouds are hovering. Soon a drizzle will ‘baptize’ them. Sowing a few bulbs and...
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Feeling a Foreigner in Your Own Country
Did you ever look at the roots of a plant?
Roots. Often intertwined. Always tentacular, gnarled, musty. Buried deep down, the way they grip and...
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Convergence of the Twain
When I was little, the word ‘coincidence’ used to make me both smile and frown. Smile because I loved to pronounce the first four...