In my study grow no flowers

So much for my wanting to take photos of my garden today. I didn't even see much of the weather today. I worked for something like 10 hours straight on my website, partly due to my own stupidity with a little nastiness thrown in by Frontpage, and all rounded off nicely by the application of Murphy's law.

I actually managed to turn the whole site utterly upside down - that's what you get when you want to handle a website in three languages simultanously without making a proper plan first. The saddest part is that I discovered several hits during my worst time on the site!!! I hope that their first impressions of pages not found, pages moved and funny links won't have sent them away forever!

Well. I think I'm on top of it now, although I've put the Maltese version on the backburner until the rest is sorted! If you take a look and find some funny problem with the site, PLEASE do let me know! It's here, by the way... ;)

Back to the weather: I think it was actually pretty good today as I could glean from an online weather report. I mean, ok, I could see from my windows that it was sunny, but I had no idea about the temperature! Tomorrow I will take those photos...

Today's blog title is a play on the title of a Maltese novel called "Fil-parlament ma jikbrux fjuri" (by Oliver Friggieri), which translates to "No flowers grow in parliament". I actually meant to write the title in Maltese too - but when I was searching for a Maltese word for "study" my dictionary came up with "il-kamra fejn wiehed jistudja bil-kwiet u bil-gabra". For the benefit of my English-only speaking friends: That would have caused my title to be something like "No flowers grow in my room where I study quietly and with concentration". I do sympathize with people who use English words within the Maltese language...

Before every Maltese language aficionado in (and out of) this country is tempted to rip me to pieces: I apologise, just in case, because of course I am aware that this was a somewhat stark exaggeration. But I had a lot of fights with the dictionary today, and I'm just in that silly mood. There's nothing I can do about it - and neither can you! :p