Arr it be talk like a pirate day.
Enjoy our phrases at http://tempesttwins.co.uk/pirate/phrases/phrases.html

I was sent a piece on forthcoming author events at Richmond Library. This one caught my eye as it has the pirate flag on a credit card. I had never thought cyber-thieves were modern day pirates but I guess they are.
“An evening with Misha Glenny: Author of DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You
Tue 27 September 6:30pm - 8.00pm, Richmond Library

In a world where we shop, bank, work and live online, DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You by Misha Glenny is an extremely necessary new book.  Misha tells the stories of the criminals, the geeks, the police, the security experts and the victims, and brings this dark underworld alive for us. Misha Glenny is an acclaimed journalist and historian, and the author of: The Rebirth of History, The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia, A History of the Balkans and McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime. He contributes regularly to the Guardian and the Observer, plus radio and television broadcasts. He is informally consulted on a regular basis by the British Foreign Office, the US State Department and the British Army as well as being a regular keynote speaker at conferences on organized crime, globalization, south-eastern Europe and US? Europe relations.
Booking essential. Tickets £2 including refreshments.”

In a weeks time on Monday 19th September is International Talk Like A Pirate Day (every year). Please see www.talklikeapirate.com, http://www.wikihow.com/Talk-Like-a-Pirate and www.yarr.org.uk/talk for more information. So time to dust off your pirate outfits and I have listed out some phrases that might help under our pirates section. You are welcome to write a post for this blog in pirate talk, just send it via the squeak page.

Now the holidays are here, I thought I would mention the small museums around the place can be quite interesting especially on rainy days.

The last one I visited was in Polperro, South Cornwall, England. Being in Cornwall their heritage museum includes smuggling and fishing. From contraband goods from Guernsey to the murder of a Customs Officer and even more recent stuff like Customs & Excise and Police seizing a large amounts of smuggled cannabis.

Please see http://www.polperro.org/museum.html and http://www.talland.org/smuggling.html