What is a ftira? So a few weeks ago I asked mum to show me how she makes her Gozitan ftira. My first one was a success – the fiance approved. My second go was last night for morning tea at work for Harmony Day. Initially when I was asked what traditional food I was going to bring, the word ‘ftira’…
I have been on hiatus for quite some time, all the while I have had Miss Malta in the back of my head with a million ideas for content and wanting to get back into it again. Unfortunately, life gets in the way of my spare time. My life in a nutshell in the last 18 months? We bought a…
Over the last couple of months I have come to know a bit more about buznannu Wigi. Earlier this year I found a passport application for his travel to Australia in 1915. I searched to find any record of him working here in Australia, but could not find anything. After confirming with my great aunt in Gozo that he did travel to…
I woke up to a notification on my phone this morning from a lady named Ali Gale. Let’s just say, as I scrolled through her post, I started to realise this was something I needed to read when I had opened my eyes a little more over a strong mug of coffee! Ali had come across a post I wrote two…
Since my visit to Malta last year after obtaining buznannu Pawl’s passport and his birth certificate, I found the Cassar direct family line up to Felice Cassar, who is my buznannu x3 (buznannu Pawl’s nannu). That’s 5 generations, 6 if you include me. All I had for Felice was his name, I didn’t have any dates or even a name for his…
Nostalgia; the feeling of desire to return in thought or to a former time in one’s life, to one’s home or homeland, or to one’s family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time. The feeling of nostalgia I think best describes why I have such a strong passion for my heritage, my unconditional love for…
Originally posted on Prof. Maurice N. Cauchi:
For the vast majority of us, Maltese folk-singing (Għana) is at best a closed book, a genre which we cannot understand. At worst it is a monotonous wail practiced in backward villages in the past, and soon to disappear. In past centuries in Malta, Casha reflects, ‘Ghana was an expression of the common…
Mela se niprova nikteb posta bil-Malti. L-aħħar li ktibt posta kien xhur ilu. Dak, u għandi bżonn għall-prattika biex nikteb bil-Malti. Naħseb li se nagħmilha xi haġa frekwenti li nikteb bil-Malti fuq il-blog tiegħi. Forsi mhux se jkun Malti perfett, imma se nipprova. Għal dawk li qed jaqraw għall-ewwel darba il-blogg tiegħi, jiena twelidt hawn fl-Awstralja u il-Malti mhux l-ewwel ta’ lingwa tiegħi. Ommi…
Originally posted on MAYCNSW:
Our ‘Online Community’ – Our own ‘Little Malta’ In just under 2 years, we have managed to interest 3000 people to hit ‘like’ on our Facebook page. Our page has been up and running for as long as we have been together, since March of 2014. We share a range of things in relation to the Maltese…
I have come across a blog where a lady from the UK with Maltese ancestry, Angela Fry is on a very similar journey to me. I am in absolute awe of the content in her blog. Considering I have found that my maternal side of the family migrated to North Africa, I thought sharing and reblogging Angela’s very informative post…
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