This lot (in whatever it is they call a vessel……) were well within the 3 mile limit the other day and they were extremely fortunate to start frantically waving (in what I took to be a token of surrender) just before I gave them a taste of grapeshot from the blunderbuss.

Transpires it was Hugo and Sue, friends of Patrick’s, from down the road.

Close call…..

Although they appear to be pirates, having disposed of the captain who’s lying prone and semingly lifeless) on the deck…