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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...

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 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...

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...