If you know Hester, you know your favourite columnist loves to shake a leg. After a long night of getting jiggy with it, Hester decided to wind down the evening with a few nightcaps at Champions Sports Club. Since the owner goes to great pains to keep his club safe, Hester had no problem being frisked at the entrance. In these times, there's no such thing as too much security. However, Hester wasn't prepared for the pat down she received from the burly security guard. When he was done, she couldn't help but feel like she had been through Customs.

Within a few minutes, Hester was enjoying her night when she realised that she had paid good money to listen to a pre-recorded CD. One to make the best of any situation, Hester was having a good time when the owner angrily bellowed on the mic: "You people better stop complaining about the music. Yes, it's a CD. In fact, you all need to get on your knees and pray and thank the Lord that I haven't shut the club down tonight. And if it seems like I have an attitude, it's because I do!"

Well! Hester, for once, was at a loss for words. She haughtily left, vowing not to return to the club until the owner had an attitude adjustment.

John Barritt finally got a motion carried "on the Hill" this month.

But the Opposition MP, who recently saw his motion to ease restrictions on the principle of double jeopardy narrowly fail in the House of Assembly, had to go downstairs to the Supreme Court to experience the sweet taste of success.

Lawyer Mr. Barritt introduced a motion seeking his daughter, Rachael, to be called to the Bermuda Bar.

The motion carried and Miss Barritt, who is practising in Toronto, now joins a distinguished list of Bermudian father-daughter legal teams.

As for Mr. Barritt, it's back upstairs for more political defeats, presumably.

Hester knows she shouldn't throw stones when she lives in a house with as much glass (figuratively speaking not literally) as The Royal Gazette.

But she had to chuckle when she saw this statement in a Police press release in The Royal Gazette newsroom the other day.

The release dealt with the sudden death of a crewman on board a fuel tanker and said the ship was being diverted to the Island and was "due to birth at 4 p.m."

Lunch at the Buckaroo on Hester for the most original suggestion for just what little bundle of joy the ship is most likely to deliver.

On a similar note: A Royal Gazette reporter thought he had a great story on his hands when he heard from a colleague at a broadcasting station (the one that is so good at reading The Royal Gazette in the mornings) that cameras were going to be allowed into the Broadcasting Commission hearings being held on whether Madam Premier's speech to the nation was a party or Government broadcast.

Freedom of speech lovers will recall that the media was unsuccessful in getting the hearing opened to the public. Now it seemed the Commission had had a welcome change of mind.

Alas, it was not to be. The broadcaster had read the Commission's ruling that the hearings would be held in camera.