It's a 'storm in a pie crust'.

Bingalau When I was stationed at RMTC Ghaijn Tuffieha in Malta in 1957, the younger marines would read the Dandy and the Beano prior to the weekly film show. I think the modern equivalents reading material is a bit more sophisyicated!

I was in my local butchers last week.

I bought some pies, on display in the window, which she told me to be careful of as they "were hot as they were just out of the oven"

Should I have paid VAT under the new "clarification"?

How long would I have to wait for them to be deemed as "at ambient"?

john bunyan. How on earth did you manage to remember how to spell the name of that place, Ghaijn Tuffieha? I have happy memories of being there. All of which we are unable to talk about on here. I suppose the natives still use the same name, but it seems to have been renamed "Golden Sands Bay". I was also surprised to find the last time I visited the island that they had managed to build a road across the only other semi-decent bit of sand on the island at St. Paul's Bay. Why did they do that I wonder? Maybe it was the same engineers from Libya who built the tunnel and never met in the middle, so causing a bit of a chicane half way through.

I always remember that the first rule of the road in Malta was to drive in the shade. Lovely country and lovely people, I like going back there. But you can't get tick in Jessie Bar any longer.

...latest pie shop(s) closure in Glasgow (southside)...and Hamilton...

http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local-news/hamilton-news/2012/02/02/hastie-s-bakery-to-shut-in-blantyre-51525-30246830/

...their scotch pies and rolls were very tasty...but expensive!