Hat Week Day 10: Straw Hat
We're chugging into April now, meaning that the spring/summer hat season is upon us, and I'll have to stop wearing my heavy felt, fur and wool hats and start wearing straw. Check out your local Dunnes, Wal-Mart, Marks and Spencer, whatever you've got and you'll notice...
Hat Week Day 9: Helmet
A minor back story with this one, I got my bike repaired so that I could do more cycling and less relying on people with cars. Got it all done up for 140 euros, then realised I had no bike helmet. After looking around at the selection I found it to be pretty poor, so...
Hat Week Day 8: Top Hat
Today I show you the proverbial crown in my hat collection. The most epic of my hats. The Top Hat. Isn't it a bit awesome? A bit really awesome? So I was in Derry one day, with about 30 minutes to kill between the bus that left me in Derry and the bus that was going...
Hat Week Day 7: Beret
My beret, the second of my hat collection. This was the tipping point at which I discovered that I was collecting hats. I got tired of waiting for hats to fall into my lap, so I took it into my own hands, measured my head, went to the army surplus store in Letterkenny...
Hat Week Day 6: The Outback Hat
Once more unto the breach... Day 6 of hat week. This is probably my least worn hat of late, it is the dirtiest, it is the lowest quality, it is essentially the worst. But damn it all if I don't love it. It's the first real hat I ever bought. Well that's not strictly...
Hat Week Day 5: Tricorner Hat
Hello and welcome to the recommencement (that word is a lot longer than I thought it was) of hat week. Today we look at probably the strangest hat in my collection: A tri-corner hat. I had fancied one for ages, but the ones that I found online were either too...
Hat Week Hiatus: Hat Hair
Hello there and welcome to the hat week hiatus day. I'd like to take a few moments of your time to talk about hat hair. My hair has been getting steadily longer since the last time I cut it, which was pretty early on this year... or maybe it was last year... I don't...
Hat Week Day 4: Ushanka
Welcome to day 4 of hat week. Today's hat is a much more seasonal number, generally a winter hat and very, very snuggly warm on the head. I call it the Mad Russian. It has ear flaps that can be worn up or down: there's a little clip that connect them either on the...
Hat Week Day 3: Bowler hat
Welcome to day three of hat week, and day one of Dave going on about his injuries. That's right, this morning I fell while walking down the hill. I twisted my ankle, cut my elbow, there's some swelling in my knee and my shoulder is absolutely killing me. But enough...
Hat Week Day 2: Cowboy Hat
Ah hat week. I've been putting it off for so very long. I've been waiting for a new hat purchase to mark the occasion, but alas, I haven't been able to get my hands on one. In fact the last hat I got was for Christmas. I say hat, it was 3 hats. Including today's hat!...
Hat Week Day 1: Fedora
Hello there followers, and welcome to Hat Week with The Mad Carpenter. Now, just a note about hat week; it will be longer than a week because I have more than 7 hats. I think I have 11... either way this is act as a sort of inventory of hats and a vehicle to informing...
Barbecue Tuesday
I've called today Barbecue Tuesday because I'm tired of people typing BBQ, and not actually knowing how to spell the word Barbecue. That and I made myself a barbecue steak for dinner. Just slather it in the sauce and fry it up. Fry on high at first to seal in the...