I hope you like my efforts for the three buccaneers' tattoo. The first, I realised was wrong after rereading the end of Dead Deep. All three Buccaneers have a tattoo on the inside of their forearm "a picture of three cutlasses, their hilts intertwined."

Take a look at Magie The Vampirate's new square. "Ok this is one of my drawings !!the drawing with the pretty
vampire "the vampire kiss" is the pic that i want to replace the treasure chest with". "thank u very much! i hope everybody likes it unfortunately i cannot send my other drawings cos i need them for my portfolio that's why I'm afraid to send them..."

Magie the Vampirate asked
"I just want to ask another thing if it isn't too bold how can I change my pic i mean the treasure chest into something more characteristic? and oh I made some drawings of vampirates and I thought that you would be interested in seing them but i have no idea how to send them"

Answer:
I just pick a random picture, if I can link it to your name or job I do. Just tell me what you would like or send me a picture and I will make it black and white and a square. As for pictures, all electronic artwork (and your photos) can go under the lookalikes pages. So far I have Tempest Twins, Lorcan, Sidorio, Others Characters and Crew. Unless you just want to do a range of black and white squares, then I can use them for crew pictures and comments. To send them, just used the email address I answer your messages with.

The You Tube entries have now got their own page under the film and TV page. I have also found three more. I hope you enjoy them.

I have been doing some cleaning up of my code, so if anything is not working properly, tell me as I may not be aware of it.

Every so often I do an entry with a list of the countries that have visited this site. Welcome to those of you from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

Also our old friends from: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu (Polynesian Island), Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay and of course the United States (Commercial, Educational and at home).

Thank you for reading our pages, contributing and sticking pins in the frappr map. Also it might be interested to know that the Tempest Twins website has had more hits from nocturn1.proboards56.com/index.cgi than www.google.co.uk/search so far this month.

The winners of the Tempest Twins compertition, I managed to win another copy of Dead Deep so four winners.
As before I asked my pinkie Swabbie Calico Bess Flint for help. (Sorry the fourth entry was not in a decent state when she let us have it to photograph.)

First prize a signed copy of Blood Captain and a postcard of Lorcan Furey
- Won by Notorious Black Barts Daughter (Dirty Dolphin Page)
Second prize a signed Dead Deep
- Won by Magie The Vampirate (Film or TV Page)
Third prize a signed Dead Deep
- Won by Sarah The Vampire (News/Praise Page)
Fourth prize a postcard of Lorcan Furey.
- Won by Duck's Foot Darcy (Favourites Page)

I received an email response from the new Vampirates fan site. Apparently it does not have a name, so that might explain why no one knows what to cal it. Also I get the feeling that the film projects take priority there.

"The website / community doesn't have a name. its down and non existent because the forum collapsed on itself, I'm going to have to find a friend to code a forum and website for me. and amongst film projects at the moment its a bit hectic.

and as for the website not changing for years, its because we said we were in the process of building a wider community since i was surprised at the amount of people joining. so we're working on expanding i guess you could say.

by the way, just call me kieran.
fair winds & goodnight
kieran"

Thank you to our new Purser, Bright Court for reminding me I have not finished the Characters page. "I found your website a while ago and found the character descriptions useful. Though there's something you could add to the descriptions of Grace and Connor. They both have auburn hair. It mentions it in 'Blood Captain' ..."

I am sorry whoever sent the message below, but without a name and contact info I cannot display it.
Message: my fav character is Lorcan furey he is described to be so nice and kind he's eyes i believe is what sedeses you!

Sorry, I have just discovered the blog links were not working. They are now back up.
If you find any other link not working properly, please tell me.

The book reviews page has had some contributions and web address added. Please check it out and tell me your views.

Every so often I do an entry with a list of the countries that have visited this site. Welcome to those of you from Uruguay.

Also our old friends from: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu (Polynesian Island), Ukraine, United Kingdom and of course the United States (Commercial, Educational and at home).

Thank you for reading our pages, contributing and sticking pins in the frappr map.

Notorious Black Barts Daughter wrote "If vampirate ever become a movie these will be their soundtracks!!". So added on the bottom of the Dirty Dolphin's jukebox is a collection of special requests or songs that our crew believe suit various characters.

Every so often I do an entry with a list of the countries that have visited this site. Welcome to those of you from Cyprus, Belgium and Norway. Also our old friends from: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu (Polynesian Island), Ukraine, United Kingdom and of course the United States (Commercial, Educational and at home). Thank you for reading our pages, contributing and sticking pins in the frappr map.

I have just found a website linking here called mahalo.com. It is just a page of links, but if you would like to read some reviews and piece it is an interesting site to look at.

I did not think my links / square buttons were really obvious.
I hope you now agree they are, as they now have a link border on two sides.

For those ultra observant members of our crew, you may have noticed a little shifting of the text. I went back to college and learnt a little about HTML and CSS. So I have used a bit of it, to move codes usually found in my HTML to the CSS. Rapid Weaver which I use has shifted quite a bit up already, but I am now a little more confident to change more than just the colours.

Our crew is growing, as a thank you, I have been bidding on ebay and won a postcard of Lorcan Furey and a signed copy of Blood Captain and Dead Deep. So competition time, with three prizes this time. First prize a signed Blood Captain, second prize a signed Dead Deep and third prize a postcard of Lorcan Furey.

As before I am willing to put one entry into the tankard, per crew member, per page you have contributed on.

Entries are only valid if I have a way of contacting you back, by a valid email address (or if agreed in the past via The Nocturn message centre). The page excluded from this, is the frappr map on the where page, as this is an external map shown on the Tempest Twins pages, which I have little control over. For the crew page, if you have written about your character (ie it is in quote marks) it will be included as a contribution. For the blog, you are welcome to send in contributions, I will post any I believe are relevant, any sent since the beginning of the year will be included as a contribution.

Closing date is the 7th March so you should get the book by Easter, where ever in the world you are. I will email you if you are the winner asking for your name and address.

If you are under sixteen please get a parents or guardians permission before sending anything in to any website, especially pictures.

I learnt a little HTML on Saturday and now the Where page with the Frappr map is centred. I hope you like it. It is found at http://www.frappr.com/tempesttwins but not centred on the page.

For those crew members who have been around a while, you may remember the Frappr map. Well I am making a fresh attempt at it. I hope you like like it and it works better this time. It is found on the left under where and at http://www.frappr.com/tempesttwins

I had the joke following joke on the front page:
What do you get if you cross a vampire and a snowman?
Frost Bite.
Did you hear of any good pirate or vampire cracker jokes over Christmas?

Message From Notorious Black Bart's Daughter
Just to say a very happy new year to all the buddy vampirates crew!!!!

Happy New Year to the Vampirate Fans around the World.
So far we have had hits from: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu (Polynesian Island), Ukraine, United Kingdom and of course the United States (Commercial, Educational and at home). Thank you for reading our pages and contributing.