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Suitable For Ages 5 an’ Up wid’ the Jolly Roger. Darrgh!

The kind of piracy I am not posting about mashed up with the kind I am. (Image courtesy of Rocko)

Hello there Dear Reader.

It has been a bit quiet around here lately but I did manage to have myself a spectacularly nice festive season and now I am back with a vengeance!

Actually my plans for 2010 don’t really include that much in the way of vengeance. Maybe a little vicious retribution here and there, but nothing too excessive.

Oh, by the way… did you notice something different?

*waits while you look around*

That’s right! I changed the layout of my blog, well done for getting it straight away.

What this old thing? Well thanks for saying so but its not that fancy – I just found it laying around a Best of Wordpress Themes site. Actually I didn’t even find it myself,  Lizbt picked it out for me so she gets the credit/blame. Thanks to her l33t skillz I even managed to retain the toaster-headed puppy as a mascot.

So there you go. New look for a new year and all that.

Hey, come to think of it you know which group of historical/literary stereotypes were big on revenge? Pirates – that’s who!

So, a few nights ago my friend OceanUnicorn came around to our house and helped Lizbt and I play with the present she had got me for aforementioned awesome Christmas. It was a box with four ‘Stunningly Designed’ (that’s what it says on the back) piracy themed StickyMosaics® . Esentially you just press little coloured adhesive squares to the squares marked on the cardboard with the corresponding number. And as between the three off us we had basic numeracy and motor-skills covered, it only took about half an hour to get one of them done.

Needless to say we cursed, listened to sea-shanties and talked about keelhauling a lot while we worked. I also set up my video camera to document proceedings, and here, me hearties, be the result.

Enjoy!