Aha!

I think I may have an explanation for the fact that I was unharmed by the piercing blades.
This explanation though is almost beyond belief.

Simply put, they are ghostly pirates wielding ghostly weapons.

So it’s on with the Proton Pack and time to get busting those ghosts!

A Most Unexpected Turn of Events

Our dear mayor appears to have emerged unscathed from multiple stabbings.

Would any of our readers care to offer their thoughts on how this could be possible? You know where the comments button is, go ahead and use it.

A Special Pronouncement from our Town Mayor

Be alert!

At a time when pirates clad only in their underwear are running rampant in our fair city, I urge you all to be ever-vigilant.

All pirate sightings should be reported to the Police Department or in the case of Lady Pirates please just take a photo and call me on my personal number 555-2368. (There is a very cryptic clue here as to what on earth is going on)

Heavy gambling pirates

What next for our friendly brigands? Find out soon in the forthcoming movie spectacular, Pantalooned Pirates of the Caribbean.

Land ho!

…and so we followed Black Bart’s map with the wind as our mistress and wound up on stranger shores than we’d ever seen afore but sure enough, there she was-a treat for our salty eyes.

It was, with no word of a lie, plain for all to see, Treasure Island…

Anchors Aweigh! (again)

With normal service (almost) restored I can reveal that we will shortly be setting sail on a most glorious adventure.
Join me as soon as I can think of something to write about in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, ….

Case notes, December 2013. 2b

A physical examination of the patient has revealed that what we initially believed to be a turban is in fact a huge swathe of bloodied bandages.

Carefully removing the padding we uncovered a badly stitched wound running the full circumference of the patient’s skull. Beneath this skin flap, the cap of the skull rotated freely.

In order to fuse this man-made skull fracture, the cap was removed. On its underside, we discovered the initials K.K. scratched in impeccable gothic script.

The brain itself is severely damaged. Neural pathways have been crudely severed and cauterised, leaving the patient with little or no long-term or episodic memory. The occasional flash of a synapse firing has been noted to cause a painful-looking twitch in the patient. Cognitive reasoning and short term memory function well.

Until we can find a way of encouraging the formation of new neural pathways, we are unlikely to learn what may have happened to him or, indeed, his true identity.

Psychologically the patient seems happy but looks ‘lost’. He constantly mutters the mantra “Remember to forget” beneath his breath. We will be encouraging this behaviour in the hope that the constant mind numbing repetition may find a way of forming a permanent neural pathway which may, somewhere down the line lead to a sudden flood of trapped memories doing the same.

It is a slim hope but a positive one.

Hercules Bleriot always gets his man.

Having spent upwards of 20 minutes in his search, Bleriot has returned with a familiar, if half-crazed, face tucked under his arm.

Does this mean we are returning to day after day of spontaneously conceived adventures? Only time will tell…

Back to the hunt

Being a re-imagining of the original drawing, today’s post will be in black and white…except for a big red X

Do it yourself

For a change, today, I’d like you to do all the work so grab a pencil and a piece of paper and follow these easy steps to draw your own pirate!

1. Draw yourself a nice big circle and then put two semi-circles on either side of the head.
2. Draw a line across the head just above the ears.
3. More semi-circles with an oblong in between them
4. Add big fat dots for eyes then, putting your pen between the oblong and the eye.
The next step might take a little practice- bring your pencil around the eye, following the line but moving further away from it as you go..

So you’re pretty much there- you can add various shaped mouths for different emotions (try an O for surprise).
Next, get your eraser and rub out the bit where the ear joins the head.

Finally, grab your crayons or felt tips and have fun.