Captain JP's log

Recently Long John Silver was heard to say :   "After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprise...

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !!!!!!!!! Yes, its that day again . And no, my laptop i...

Listen up, yeh sons and daughters of a banana faced baboon, that ye be! Aye, it be talk like a pirate day this very day! Alas, JP be p...

Arrrrrrhhh me hearties!!! Yeh have heard me tell of yon Pirate Captain , arrrahhh! that yeh have! Here he be in print, shiver my timber...

On the Independent web site there's an interesting theory relating to fantastic new movie " The Pirates: an adventures with scienti...

Aha me hearties, 'tis movie pieces of eight, so it be!! Talk yea not of the hunger games, compared to this 'tis as dead as a dod...

The acronym of the day is SOPA. It's legislation being proposed in the US Congress to stop piracy, but while piracy - both real and on...

I'm sure there were many people saying "great you could be here" at the 2012 London Boat Show, but there were two people for w...

Aha me-hearties, 'tis talk like a pirate day , so it be. 'pon my eyes, what dastardly deed to I see upon yon Google? Aye, 'tis...

I'm being squeezed time-wise at the moment between work, family chores and the second re-write of that novel so struggling a bit on the...

It is with a heavy heart that I must report that Buff Staysail has been implicated in the phone hacking scandal, and therefore this blog mus...

Today were published the findings of the official enquiry  into the raiding of several ships off Charleston by Blackbeard , which concludes ...

G'day all, Buff Staysail here - Buff by name and Buff by nature! Yours truly has got a ripper of a story to tell: Buff's been visi...

There's an interesting program on the BBC's iPlayer called " The Trouble with Pirates " - you should be able to get it by ...

Am I being followed by Johnny Depp? In August I go sailing in Cornwall and what do they say but Johnny Depp is in the county filming the n...

Ahoy there, Buccaneer Buff here, or at least me spirit, that be. Me hear many a pirate talking 'pon this day, namely the 19th of Septe...

I'm just back from my "Wind in the Willows" experience up the Thames, and have a stack of posts mentally drafted including Why...

Oh no! The long arm of the Somali pirate has reached all the way to London, where an intelligence team armed with a satellite phone is repo...

So you're a terror of the seas, heading out onto the ocean seeking adventure, barrel loads of gold coins and for your pockets to be heav...