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!