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So, I went to the Pirate party! it was lots of fun! I went with tethys123 and her husband, and met up at O'Bannons with some people I kind of knew.... But there was a live band (The Blaggards- Celtic Rock and bits - lots of Johnny Cash covers. Also, I Wanna be Sedated), and they were good, and according to my natural inclinations I gravitated towards the stage where I hung out with some other wanna-be pirates.

And there are pictures of course!

ARRRR!

Hazel's present obviously came just in time ^-^

There was a costume contest, but this was a bar contest, and I wasn't exposing enough flesh and didn't have the crowd packed with enough people to win, even though I had the best costume ;) Well, okay there were definitely other people there with good pirate outfits, but none of them involved a corset *and* a silk brocade jacket! It came down to two girls in the end - one who had lots of friends at the bar, and one who was reaaaaallly tarty. I suspect the latter was probably too young to legally be at the bar, anyway. She didn't win, despite her midriff barring bra-shirt thing and her spike heel boots. I was too close to the stage to get pictures. But the girl who did win wasn't was showing hardly any skin at all, so good for her. She seemed pretty nice, from what I could tell, and it is gratifying to think that even if the costume contest was not judged on the merit of the costume, a bar full of mostly drunken boys did *not* vote to give it to the underaged girl who showed the most skin!

Anyway, it was fun, and I should go to bed except that I'm all pepped from music and such still (possibly also the diet coke I had earlier), so instead I am posting pictures and writing posts! ARRR!

On Cecil Rhodes, from Against These Three:

The day was to come when he would run in with Kruger, when he would outmanoeuvre Lobengula - the terrible day when they would knock a hole in the side of his seaside cottage to give him air that he could not use. They, his friends, the men who had loved and served him. The men he had loved. There was no woman there when he died.