Whitby Pirate Day

Happy talk like a pirate day and of course my birthday, as you may remember I was traveling down to Whitby with my nieces.

After a peaceful journey to Whitby we had to get the harbour to raise the road bridge to let the heron threw, we moored up and all got out to stretch our legs. we got there early on Saturday morning so had plenty of time to cook some breakfast before we wandered around in our pirate outfits. There was lots of people in pirate hats and we said hello to all the pirates we saw. As we got closer to the beach we could hear music, there was people on the bandstand dressed as pirates singing and playing. my nieces loved it, they played the games, decorated a sword each and had their faces painted to look like they had an eye patch of course my nieces insisted on having theirs pink. We also met Captain Jack Sparrow, who is always where the party is, he posed for pictures and was helping raise money. The whole day they were raising money for the RNLI, that is where they use brilliant volunteers to help save anyone who is in trouble at sea or on the coast. They have wonderful lifeboats and helicopters that can save someone life, they do amazing work all around the country to not only rescue but to teach people about the dangers that are around the coast so that they can avoid getting into trouble and need to be rescued.

We had brilliant day and will be there next year for another Whitby pirate day, hope to see you there.

Nice Surprise

I've had a lovely surprise today. I had a visit from my nieces Sarah and Eve. It is a special day next week and they came to celebrate with me, next Wednesday is talk like a pirate day or as we call it, just pirate day and of course it's my birthday, so we decided to do something fun this weekend and go to Whitby where the pirates will be out and having fun.
We have to make sure we have enough food and water on The Heron for the trip as it will be very dangerous to run out of either. You can sail on the sea but not drink it as it contains salt, which makes you need more water, plus thousands of years of pirates going to the loo in the sea, I don't want to drink that.
Sarah is also 13 now and really wants to come on an adventure with me I've promised that if she learns to sail The Heron she can come with me on an adventure, so she is sitting on deck reading about knots, which are very important with all these ropes about. Eve is tucked up next to me here. She is 9 and wants to design clothes when she's older. She loves looking at all the pirate clothes and spends a lot of time taking photo's, so just maybe she will let me share one of her photos with you when we get back from pirate day fun.

New Name Game

When I grew up there was only sailors, the odd pirate and my brother to play with so many times we were chased from The Kitchen and told to go play on the dock. It was here that David and I invented the new name game. We would pick a passer by and would try and come up with a pirate name for them. Like Fish Slice Mary who would cut up all the fish ready for her husband to sell and her husband was Loud Mouth Fool, as that was the only thing his wife ever called him.
I loved this game and every year around this time I go to work in my pirate clothes and get all the children in the library to play the game, naming each other and more fun to name their parents. Why don't you come up with a pirate name for yourself so on Pirate day you know what everyone needs to call you.