Eat Cake Like a Pirate Day!

[The Procrastinator]

What an excellent cake! I am amazed. Costumes are pretty darn good too. Does Megan make a living doing stuff like this??

[chrispenycate]

Originally Posted by Mouse

That cake looks brilliant! I also want one for my thirtieth! No wait... I mean uh... twenty-first obviously. Yeah.

And I have a cowboy hat, a bowler hat, a trilby, a cloche, a baker boy, a straw hat even... but no pirate!

Aha. I am not alone in my hatlessness. I forgot the solar/battery powered one, with the little propellor to fan me cool (but I imagine everyone has one of those) and the yellow hard hat, either so you can see where I sank into a bog, of to give a target to drop bricks at from a high scaffolding tower.

[Teresa Edgerton]

Thank you, everyone. Yes, she does decorate cakes as part of how she makes her living, in that she teaches cake decorating classes, but not to make cakes like the ones she makes at home, because she has to follow a set course plan put together by the company.

Chris, your hats all sound admirably functional. Depending, of course, on what functions one needs to be served.

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

No hats for Karn.


Though for my 21st I had nice sombrero.....

[The Judge]

Originally Posted by Teresa Edgerton

Chris, your hats all sound admirably functional. Depending, of course, on what functions one needs to be served.

Or, indeed, what functions one attends...

[Teresa Edgerton]

Very true, Judge. From the fact that we already had the pirate hats, you can probably guess what sort of functions we do attend.

[chrispenycate]

But, but…as I am a sound engineer who doesn't work in public broadcast, 'tis evident I am a private ear. And without so much as a tricorne hat to make the point (and the point and the point) Not so much as a so'wester.

The customs officials will think "There's a crazy English tourist", not "behold the bold corsair"

The best I can manage is wrap a scarf round my head, and carry a budgie (pieces of five, pieces of three and a half) and hope they don't take me for an arab…

[nixie]

Cake looks delicous and the kids adorable. Can't believe they're now 4. I remember when they were first born.

[Ursa major]

I have a panama and something akin to a ushanka (уша́нка), respectively from M&S and, I think, 1960s' Bulgaria. Holes are beginning to appear in the former; the latter has lost the little strip of material holding the flaps together, which makes its use in all but the coldest (UK) weather a study in looking a bit silly. (So what's new?)

No pirate hat, though.