Beachhutman's Malta memories

George Edwards is an artist living in the United Kingdom whose ideal home is Malta or Spain. He blogs at The Beachhutman and recently posted an entry about selling the "Malta Independence papers to a collector for a good price". Earlier, he wrote about the time he lived in Malta as a teenager:

As a kid I never went to sleep at the "Right" time. I know that around the age of eight, when we lived in New Zealand, I would toss and turn for hours. The memories came back to me. I would still be awake when my parents went to bed. I seem to remember as I got a bit older the little radio came to my aid, keeping me from boredom until late at night. As a teenager I do remember having to read until the small hours every night.

We were living in Malta, and I would often get up and go through to my own "loiinge",(we had a villa) and fiddling with hobbies, or listening to the World Service. I never seem to have been able to drop off easilyThis wakefullness went on through all the changes of home. I remember getting up in the night when we lived in Sliema, and going out onto my balcony to watch the passing traffic, and I remember reading a book a night in bed. I think college broke the pattern...

In another post he writes: "The last pocket held a list of the times I was truly happy and relaxed. It was a really short list. I had to squint, and only found there the times I spent on a sun lounger as a teenager, on the balcony in Malta, overlooking the sea, good book in one hand, coke in the other, getting tanned and looking fit."