You can file this one under the “Oh dear, oh dear” category (it’s what they call a “Double O’Dear” in the blog industry)
Members of a North Devon Women’s Institute thought they were going to a speech about piracy. Well, technically they were… just not that kind of piracy. The members came to the talk dressed as pirates unaware that the speech was actually by/about Captain Colin Darch’s seven-week hell as a Somalian hostage.
As you can imagine, North Devon WI were left a little embarrassed by their garb… Bless.
From the looks of things, Captain Colin Darch took it in stride: “Of course I didn’t take offence or mind. It was more like the Pirates of Penzance.”