Hat Week Hiatus – 2
This post doesn't relate directly to hats, but if you look back at Hiatus day 1, then you'll realise something similar is going on in this post. Taken this morning. For a more recent picture from today look below the jump. That's right! I got a haircut. Doing this hat...
Hat Week Day 12: Special Guest
Hello there Mad Carpenter fans; you're in for a treat today because you're meeting my younger sister Stephanie (again) but since this is hat week she's here to show off her hats. Clockwise from top left: 1. Black instripe trilby: a fairly recent purchase - Pennys of...
Hat Week Day 11: Flat Cap
One of the three hats I got for Christmas, courtesy of my brother Eamon. I introduced him in an earlier post in case you want to go back and see me beside him. As a sort of proof... that we're related. I prefer to wear it with the top flipped up as it's slightly tight...
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...