It is now up to the Peace Implementation Council, at its next meeting at the end of March, to confirm Inzko's appointment, but at the moment that seems as a mere technicality.

The beautiful lady Macedonia had the same misfortune when she was stood up by her older lover Nathan. Last April the coward left her waiting in front of the church altar. He simply did not show up, he did not have the guts to leave his old wife Athena for a 18 year old girl who naively loved him.

I don’t want to go through yet another war... Thank you, very much, I think I had my share of that s**t (excuse my French) in my lifetime.

According to Kosovo’s constitution, the government should be responsible to parliament. But is that the case? I don’t think so. The last time I saw Prime Minister Hashim Thaci being questioned by the MPs, it looked more like a word association game – a senseless one, however.

People in the Balkans always seemed prone to conspiracy theories, probably because of all those “historic events” and “global power plays” which in the past centuries played out and marched through this region, leaving nothing but death and misery behind.

The world has been living in that illusion long enough, deceiving itself that it can always get what its want for the money. People can, but only rarely. When they want a service from me, or when I am expected to provide a service to someone, I am the one that sets the price – usually a higher rate than the official one.

I recently came across an essay by Margaret Atwood, The Female Body, which presents an interesting description of how a woman might feel about her body, its physique and utility.