Bound for Port Phillip Bay

I'm off to Melbourne tomorrow, where I'll be:
~ visiting lots of schools
~ launching The Pirate's Revenge on Wednesday 18 October, 6.30pm, at Readings Books, 253 Bay Street, Port Melbourne
~ having a whole lot of piratical fun at Eltham Bookshop's Chatterbooks afternoon (details below).
Hopefully I won't have to fight any bushfires while I'm in town - there were 250 (count em!) bushfires raging in Victoria yesterday.

Then from 24 October, I'll be doing the rounds of schools in Auckland. Maybe one of them will be yours.