To outsiders the past days may have gone by with nothing unusual to record, except hotter days and the annual Eurovision flutter.

But for us, born or bred on this island, the past days came with their quota of crises.

Not big enough to warrant alarm but big in their own way for the heat they generated.

I begin with the crisis in the small hilltop village of Gharghur where a 62% majority suddenly found itself ousted and out of power.

Anguished PN leaders were up in arms and even held a midweek protest, warning that what happened there could happen anywhere and that democracy was being threatened.

On the other hand Labour replied with the testimony of the former PN councillor who switched sides and who claimed she had been sidelined by the very popular mayor and that the party bigwigs did not take her complaints seriously.

Then it emerged there were huge problems regarding the council's finances mainly as a result of a boxing match organised in front of the church. 

The organiser, who says he has not been paid yet, promised to confront the party leader at the gathering but one doubts if this actually happened. You couldn't invent this.

The same thing happened many years ago but in reverse and the PN kept mum then.

The second crisis came when the government's second appointee to the EU Court of Justice, Veronica Dalli, sister of Minister Miriam, jumped before being pushed and withdrew her application.

She later claimed the EU board of judges vetting her application seemed prejudiced against her. 

EU sources on the other hand told media she did not seem too up-to-date with EU legislation and she had limited experience as a lawyer.

Now I think it is up to Robert Abela to map out the next step - whether to move on with the next name on the list or come up with a new name

Lastly the government's latest headache. It was reported in Belgium that the police there want to speak to young Socialist MEP Daniel Attard about his being a guest of Chinese giant Huawei at an Anderlecht game.

Huawei is under suspicion both in the US and in Europe for its links to the Chinese government and one would expect any budding politician to be wary of such an association. But then didn't the Labour administration come up with a big agreement with them and boast about it to the entire world?

When Robert Abela was ambushed as usual on the steps of Castile he waffled and argued, showíng a lack of preparation, if not by him, by his entire staff. 

Thus he missed out reminding the media about Tonio Fenech (and son) being the guests of two prominent Maltese businessmen at an Arsenal Champions League game in Spain.

But while we were engrossed with these storm-in-a-teacup crises Israel continued with its ethnic cleansing of Gaza, Russia continued with its attempts to subjugate the Ukraine and millions of migrants continue to suffer in Libya.

Roberta Metsola, our uncrowned queen, who rushed to the kibbutz attacked on 7 October, stayed silent as thousands of children were massacred in bombing raids. One could also feel the coldness with which Pope Prevost greeted her.

But since these last crises are over the horizon for us, they become unreal in our mind.

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