Today, we took Tiny Flirt to see the Grand Turk which is currently in Whitby. We had promised him a pirate ship, and a replica of a contemporary 18th Century warship ticked all of the four-year-old’s boxes – and then some.

He spent the entire day charging around shouting “aaaaaarrrrgh!” and admiring the cannons.

The fun part is the discovery of what service on a pirate ship does to a four year old. Well, I say fun…
…but exuberant and overexcited is bad enough on its own. Add the stimulus of a ship full of guns, sails, swords and ropes…