I’ve got two fun piratical gigs this Saturday (tomorrow):
Knickerbocker Glorious
Furthest From The Sea and Derby Cathedral Quarter present four hours of live street entertainment – music, poetry, comedy and theatre.
11-3 – Four hours of FREE street entertainment at the Fountain area in the Cathedral Quarter
Starring Emma Bladen Jones, George Formby (Ewan Wardrop), Leo Swarvett, Chris Allen, and compered by our very own Captain Pigheart…
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Aye, ye saw me name a-right – I’ve got me own tale slot at 12.20 but I’ll be fillin’ the gaps and dying from heat stroke for ye amusement.
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Rum Ahoy!
The Orange Tree in Nottingham are celebrating their new rum menu with a pirate themed evening of fun and drinking:
The Orange Tree presents RUM AHOY!
Kicking off at 5pm, we have entertainment to take you swashbuckling (something pirates do) throughout the night!
LIVE MUSIC & PIRATE GAMES
RUM SAMPLING & COCKTAIL OFFERS
THE BEST DRESSED PIRATES DRINK RUM FOR FREE!
What’s even more exciting is that if you buy a Sailor Jerry, you’ll receive an awesome collectible cup and a chance to win a trip to Hawaii! Ooo aaar!
Bring ya mates & yer pieces of eight!A marvellous notion. I’ve been invited to share some yarns with the fine folk between 5-6pm. Following that there will be pirate music, dancing, cocktails and a best dressed pirate competition.
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I’m with you on all counts.
This is an amazing post and one that I feel I could have written, minus the humor, readability, and references to A levels. Interestingly, we also have very similar reading tastes and opinions. While I haven’t read everything that you have, I agree with all you said about those I did read. The only place we diverge is that I live in an apartment and had I not decided long ago to get rid of some books when the sheer volume of them reached a critical mass I would surely be dead, crushed under a huge pile of heavy tomes. Although I do miss certain editions I once had, overall it has worked out pretty well for me.
A couple of notes. The Doctor Who book was likely Planet of the Spiders (a less inspired title I can not imagine) and while you’re right about the later Hitchhiker books, the sequence at Milliways in the 2nd book is my favorite part of the “trilogy.”
And lastly, I also still have my copy of the Hardy Boys Survival manual and once tried to make a survival kit like they describe in the book. However, I much prefer an earlier Hardy Boys spinoff, The Hardy Boys Detective Manual, in hardcover, which came out a few years earlier, and had so many great detecting tips. all sadly useless now in the internet era.
We clearly are the finest of people! I have recently declined the opportunity to take all the books I left at my Dad’s house when I left home. It was difficult, but partly from not having seen them for years I managed to get it down from 400 or so to a mere hundredish. I don’t know where I’m going to put them…
Ah yes, that sounds exactly as terrifying a title as I recall. I seem to remember that the cover of Planet of The Spiders was too horrible for me to even want to touch. You make a good point about Milliways. It’s possible I’m conflating several of the THGGTTG books into one.
Ah! I had no idea they did more manuals. I don’t know where I got the Survival Manual, but I suspect it was a marvellous second hand bookshop in Burton on Trent that had a charming Dachshund named Carl who would bark until stroked.