Employees of the Malta and Gozo Municipal Blood Bank surprised and delighted their patients last Friday by dressing as vampires and vestral virgins for the blood bank’s own special dress-down day.
The head of the blood bank Dr Conrad Depasquale Mears (aka Dr Dracula) said: “Oh, you should have seen their faces. I think they expected us to extract their blood using our fake fangs. Oh how we laughed!”
Dr Depasquale Mears was, however, at pains to point out that the blood bank maintained their usual high standards of professionalism despite the fact that their employees were all wearing silly costumes.
He also expressed his surprise at the fact that on that particular day the blood bank experienced a record number of cancelled appointments.
Italian singer dines at El Ripoff restaurant
Italian singing sensation Dino Rumbusto was recently entertained to dinner at Paceville’s premiere restaurant El Ripoff, as a guest of the Malta branch of his fan club.
El Ripoff owner Mario Pilates Borg, is pictured above with a silly grin on his face and his arm a little too enthusiastically around Snr Rumbusto’s shoulders.
Snr Rumbusto was quoted after his meal as saying: “This-a must-a be the best-a restaurant in-a Capri (sic) – and my latest hit record is-a called Andiamo solo, it-a will-a be in-a de shops Monday and I love everything-a Sicilian (sic).
“Now where’s-a de appearance money?”
Visit by Ashby de la Zoulch Commodore
The Commodore and nine members of the Ashby de la Zouch Sailing Club (AZSC) committee recently made their first visit ever to the Imperial Malta Yacht Club (IMYC) headquarters in Kalkara.
In a reception at the IMYC, after a hearty day’s competitive sailing around Kalkara Bay, the AZSC Commodore, Captain Eric Norment-Clarke, presented IMYC Commodore, Commander Massimo Delorean Bartolo, with a gold-plated three-foot-high model of a brigantine in full sail.
In turn, Commander Delorean Bartolo, presented his counterpart with an IMYC pennant.
The pair are pictured above, Commander Delorean Bartolo (left) almost totally hidden by the brigantine, and Captain Norment-Clarke (right), clutching the pennant with a rather rueful expression on his face.
Maltese dancer’s success in global event
Exotic dancer Charmaine Tanti Loporto (pictured above in her working gear) has scored a unique first for Malta when she placed 193rd in the World Exotic Dance Jamboree in Dubai last month.
Ms Tanti Loport’s coach Tania Flynn Apap said: “We are all so proud of her. And I believe she would have done even better had her left nipple tassel not taken an anti-clockwise tack at a crucial point in her exhibition dance.
For your diary
• The Malta and Gozo Federation of Undertakers will be holding an embalm-in at the Dead Reckoning Funeral Home and Pizza Parlour, San Ġwann tomorrow. All proceeds in aid of the Distressed Undertakers Association.
• The Friends of the Biċċerija will be holding an abattoir awareness day on Thursday at the government abattoir, Marsa. All are welcome. particularly well-fattened cattle, sheep and pigs.
• The Bengħajsa scout troop will be holding a car wash, shampoo and set next Saturday at the Bengħajsa Water Purifying Plant; from 9.30 a.m to noon. Please form an orderly queue.
• There will be a car boot sale on the parvis of the Saint Debbie Convent, San Ġwann, next Sunday, starting at 6 a.m. A vast selection of car boots will be on offer.
• Bianchi Bugeja Bros, manufacturers of quality rubberware will not be sending Christmas cards or freebie bottles of Scotch this year. But they would like it to known that they will still be able to receive these from companies that are less penny-pinching than they are.