Joyce, Maggie and O'Leary - that they may face the Stenna Line!

I should probably be in the Capital! You know everything is better on the mainland, the provinces and colonies were ok for a bit of frolicking amidst the natives! (Must stop using exclamation mark, not conducive to good ENGLISH). Can't have letters after yer name and not speak the Queen's English proper like mate, know what i mean?

Didn't get a Maltese Sim, using street phone, 1021, and can also use it in apartment as my contacts person work picks up the tab for 1021 calls. Yes i think a wee bit of Joyce will always be with me, even some of Molly's 'Bloomers' - excuse the awful pun!

Reading McGahern's 'That they may face the Rising Sun' at the moment.

Also found the biography of that glorious wonderful specimen of feminity, the heroine of the Falklands, Miners, and Republicans, Maggie - the lady not for turning - pity .. pity...mmm!! That would have been worth an exclamation mark. Read several chapters, just confirmed that my feelings of 30 years ago, about her, weren't just petty vindictiveness. It explains everything. Our history with England, to paraphrase Joyce, she personifies the nightmare we were trying to escape from!

Now back to modern problems! I see your on/off love affair with O'Leary continues. I think you have grounds for anullment of the relationship, wouldn't put up with it anymore, use StennaLine!!

Will spend a few hours away from the hammock and pool to relate the academic experience and some stuff about this last outpost of Empire, although i think despite all our Good Fridays coming together, they haven't gone away you know?

Titus