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New videos

Just posted up a couple of new videos. The first is of Aidan watching a gravel ship come into Penno's Wharf last week; the second is a compilation of vignettes taken by my dad during our recent trip to the UK. Enjoy.

Redesign

As promised, I've done a quick redesign of the site to de-emphasise the blog posts and give more space to the stuff that tends to get updated more frequently.

I've also decided to revert to TypePad comments instead of using Disqus. This means there is no longer a comments feed for all posts, although there are still comments feeds for individual posts (still trying to figure out how to include a link to them, however).

Neglect

Oh dear. It appears it's now been over a month since I last posted anything new here. Sorry about that. There's lots I could write about, such as our recent trip to the UK, but I've been finding it difficult to summon up the enthusiasm when I could just bang out 100-word status updates on Twitter/Facebook instead.

Perhaps it's time I gave this site a bit of a makeover to better reflect where my priorities lie these days.

Local recommendations

Went to Beau Rivage at Newstead for lunch on Saturday, on the recommendation of a friend, and we were thoroughly impressed. It has an excellent panoramic view of the Hamilton waterfront, the service was exceptionally friendly and accommodating, and the food was great. It was warm enough for us to be able to sit on the terrace area outside, and we were only one of three tables, so Aidan was able to roam happily around without us having to fight to keep him in his chair. Highly recommended.

On Saturday evening we had my company's annual dinner at Lido, so we opted to stay at Elbow Beach for the night. We did the same last year, but were unimpressed with our room in the main hotel building, which was small and old. This year, however, we were given a complimentary upgrade to one of their newly refurbished rooms in the various buildings dotted around the site, and the difference was huge. It was a big, modern room, with the bedroom and lounge area at one end, the toilet, shower and sinks at the other, and a huge bath in the middle. There was a nice flatscreen TV and a Denon sound system too. My only beef was that although you could plug your iPod into the sound system, you needed a cable to do so, which they didn't provide. We were charged a rate of $150 + taxes for the night, but even though this was supposedly an upgrade, when we enquired about the standard rate we were told that during the low season, $150 was it (unsurprisingly, I think it was more like $350 during high season). Well worth it once in a while for a special treat.

Mulligans demolished

Went up to the old St. George's golf club this morning, to help out with the marshalling for the Escape to Bermuda Triathlon. When we arrived we were shocked to discover that the club, along with Mulligans restaurant, had been demolished.

We used to eat at Mulligans a lot, taking Aidan up there for brunch most Sundays, so it was really sad to see the place gone.