Tis the season to be jolly and carry on sunbathing!

Somehow December is here and the sun is still shining in BDA. It's not really feeling that christmassy yet in paradise despite the Christmas tree on Front Street being up in all it's glory and the Corporation of Hamilton battling to get the lights up and working despite some 'broken circuit' issues. Meanwhile the BA flight back to blighty is going nowhere as the white fluffly stuff lies deep and crisp and even. I couldn't feel more detached from the norms of my home country. This has been made even clearer as I having sat watching the story of the royal engagement  told by Americans. If Kate Middleton is from a "typical English working-class" then I'm was raised in a trash can. Jeez!

There is a hefty price tag, as with everything in Bermuda, on the festive season. A tin of Quality Street will set you back over $30 so it was top of the wish list for the olds to bring over. Apart from the distinctly warmer clime, crimbo is pretty much the same deal. Shopping hell to find the perfect party dress to the softening sounds of a Salvation Army band, some burning of the proverbial advent calendar at both ends and enough food to truly feed...the... wor..ld. Yes we do know it's Christ-mas time!


Things are fairly quiet on the news front but I guess that is what comes from having a Premier who doesn't create all the drama, drama, drama. I went to the birthday party of her royal highness, the Fairmont Hamilton Princess hotel at the weekend and Premier Paula Cox was there to add a sense of glamourous occasion to the proceedings. She spoke on the importance of that ol' byword of late... sustainability. But it is sooo true. When you think about the pink palace still sitting pretty in the top end of travel market despite the economic tsunami of late then Princess really does deserve a silver spoon lashing of praise.  She is celebrating her 125th Christmas in style with a large-scale gingerbread house nestled under the Christmas tree in the lobby.


But in the weeks before Christmas not everything is quiet as a mouse, a political pin drop threatens to stir the house (of assembly) from its festive slumber. So by now, most people are familiar with "Cablegate", the U.S. diplomatic cable leak on website WikiLeaks. Well 68 of the over 250,000 to be release reference this little island. The first of which was out today, revealed that Bermuda received a minimal cash payment for accepting the four ex-Guantanamo detainees last year. Who knows the truths the other 67 will expose but rest assured the dust of Premier Ewart Brown's legacy is yet to settle. There may be controversy ahead, watch this space/dot in the ocean...