New for Halloween: Skeletal Ship Upgrades!

Arm yer ship in properly spooky fashion with Skeletal Cannons!

Steer yer boat to the ends of the earth and beyond with the Skeletal Helm!

Haunt both yer hearties and yer enemies with the Skelly Cap'n and Skelly Mermaid Figureheads!

The new Skeletal items will only be on sale in October, so hurry and snag yers now from yer local Furnisher!

Spring! Huzzah, Spring! My favourite season has arrived in New Zealand and I'm so happy to have survived the cold and to be heading into warmer weather. The daffodils are already nearly finished; they came out quite early this year. The roses are all leafing up and looking lush, the bluebells are up but not flowering yet and the freesias outside my lounge window are smelling gorgeous. I forgot to take a picture of the daffodils out when they looked wonderful, so instead of subjecting you to wilted flowers I'm popping in a picture of the hills (photo taken from my gate). I know it looks photo-shopped, but trust me! It isn't!

The downside of all this New Zealand sunshine is that it is so harsh and stain/paint fades too quickly. I'm needing to restain all my decking this year which involves a lot of water blasting with my super charged new water blaster (FUN!) and painting (ICK! Where are swabbies when you need 'em?). Still, it must be done and I ought to have it all finished and the garden looking wonderful for the Christmas Day BBQ which I'm going to host again this year. Nothing nicer than celebrating Christmas out in the sunshine rather than huddled around a fire! (And yes, I'm already planning for Xmas. Aren't you?).

Just because it's September doesn't mean the summer fun has to end! It's time to celebrate the end of summer vacation with... a Puzzle Pirates vacation!

From now until the end of the month, pirates who visit and complete three of the following four exciting Puzzle Pirate destinations will earn themselves an awesome Seal o' Piracy trophy for September! What are those destinations, you ask?

• An Atlantean Citadel!
• A Cursed Island!
• A Buried Treasure Atoll!
• A Lost Shipwreck!

Better hurry, though: once September slips away, your chance at the Seal will be gone, so grab your favorite ship and some friends and head on out for adventure! Oh, and be sure to bring us back some cool souvenirs.

NOTE: Players on Crimson are only required to visit two of those destinations to earn their trophy. Sorry for any confusion!

Avast!

Exciting new bonus promotions tailored to particular pirates are now available! If ye're one of the lucky ones this week, ye could earn yerself an awesome Sloop or a Mounted Tigershark just for buying a package of doubloons or a subscription!

New promotional offers will sail ashore every week! To make sure ye always be getting yer share of the deals, be an active participant on yer ocean: run pillages and trips to sea monster zones, play lots of puzzles and make sure ye spend yer loot on new clothes, boats and other piratey swag!

Ye could have a special bonus waiting right now, so head on over here to see what's up, and be sure to check for more great deals each week by pressing the Buy Doubloons! or Subscribe! buttons on your Ye panel!