Another Quiet Day

The nutmeg I was given on Grenada has dried sufficiently to open revealing the nut.
The red stuff covering it is mace (it looks a bit alien to me).
So the one nut gives two products.........

The Captain dragged himself out of his sickbed (he has some virus - not nova I am glad to say - to go with his heatstroke) and got dressed up with the rest of us for the last of the black-tie formal nights.
Well, he had to really ....... The Captain's Mate and I were having a joint birthday celebration - not that it is actually either of our birthdays - and he had arranged to have her thoroughly embarrassed by the waiters all coming and singing Happy Birthday to her.