Easter Eggs Ahoy

I’ve just had an eggy adventure with the pirates on the Sea Wolf. When I arrived it was all calm. Too calm. There was no wind and they hadn’t moved for days. Everyone was bored. The only ones who’d been doing any work were the chickens in their coop. Peter was about to cook something with all the eggs. So I suggested that we decorate them instead for Easter. We boiled them up in a pan of onion skins which turned the eggs orange. Then I got them to draw faces on using charcoal from the galley fire. At first the pirates refused – except for Charlie. But when they saw we were enjoying ourselves - especially when we made a Harry Hopp egg - everyone joined in.

Then we had a lucky escape – well, two really. A wind suddenly came along – and so did Captain Blackheart and his crew on the Grinning Skull! There wasn’t time to get the cannon ready so we pelted them with eggs. Not sure if the enemy scarpered because of the gruesome-looking faces on the eggs, or because they were rock hard as Peter had boiled them up too long. So we were lucky we didn’t get battered by Blackheart – and even luckier that we hadn’t tried to eat the eggs!

Chocs aweigh!

School holidays! Only 6 days to Easter - and lots of chocolate eggs! I’d like to take some to my friends on the Sea Wolf but there are 2 problems. First, I can’t take anything back in time apart from the clothes I’m wearing and second, chocolate eggs hadn’t been invented in 1706. They don’t know what they’re missing!

I found the headless pirate's head!

 I've found the headless pirate’s head! Well, his skull. It’s in a museum in Hamburg in Germany. See the spike sticking up in it? When he was killed, his head was displayed on a spike to warn others not to be pirates. Stortebeker isn’t his real name but a nickname. It means to empty the mug in one gulp. So I reckon he drank lots of beer. The model is what they think he looked like. He reminds me of my friend Ben Hudson, from the Sea Wolf!

March of the headless pirate

I've found an awesome story about a real headless pirate. Klaus Stortebeker was executed 600 years ago. But before they chopped his head off, he made a deal that if his headless body could walk past any of his crew they would be spared. He managed to get past eleven of his pirates before the executioner put out a foot and tripped him up. What a cheat!

The headless pirate

Did you enjoy World Book Day, shipmates? I had a great time. I stuck a cardboard box on my shoulders and Mum helped me drape my pirate costume around it so that I looked headless. I had two small holes to see through. Then I carried a false head under my arm. Dad took a picture and I think my costume looked good. I had to think quickly when my teacher asked me which book character I was. I told her I was an executed pirate and she could take her pick! Luckily she had no idea that executed pirates didn't have their heads chopped off.

After school, I had a brilliant idea about playing a trick on the crew of the Sea Wolf. I rubbed my gold doubloon and went back to the Sea Wolf, still in costume. My plan was to come up from the storeroom, groaning and waving my arms about. (I had to leave the false head behind because only the clothes I’m wearing go back in time with me.) But when I got up on deck, the crew were in the middle of a terrible fight. Captain Blackheart and his vicious band had boarded the ship. Suddenly everyone stopped fighting. They all stared at me and then they all dived over the side, even my friends. Apart from Charlie who can’t swim. She grabbed Sinbad and started to climb the rigging to get away. At that moment, Crow landed on my shoulder and began to nibble at the cardboard through my costume. Charlie guessed it was me and came back down. When the rest of the crew returned, Harry Hopp declared that he’d known it was me all along and he’d been chasing the enemy away. Captain Blade wasn’t very amused. I spent the next two hours scrubbing the deck!

World Book Day Costume Nearly Ready!

I’ve nearly got my pirate costume ready for World Book Day. I cut some old jeans short and made them look ragged at the knees. I’ve got a striped tee shirt and an old corduroy waistcoat of my dad’s. Gran gave me an inflatable parrot to stick on my shoulder. Mum bought me some stripy socks and some pirate buckles on elastic to go round my school shoes. I wanted to go barefoot like Charlie and Fernando but I couldn’t tell her that. My trips to the Sea Wolf are secret.

Now just to think how to do the headless part – and the peg leg!