If You Want To Get Ahead...

 ...Get A Hat!

We've had a lifetime of school productions, and Holiday Clubs, and belonging to organisations that required hats - and we both love wearing hats generally - whether to shade us from the sun or warm us in the cold. But to possess over forty is probably a little excessive now we approach retirement

Baseball caps, berets, felt hats, straw hats, wedding hats, fancy-dress hats, uniform hats, mob caps, and warm woolly hats...and my jester hat with bells

The three oldest; Mr B's banker's bowler [1940s]. My mum's summer hat [1960s] and Bob's mortar-board [1970s]

I have been ruthless- and put crushed wedding finery and moth eaten berets in the bin. A large number are going to a local pre-school group's dressing up box. 

The ones we still wear regularly - my Tilley hat, Bob's straw panama, a couple of baseball hats...these and a few others have packed into a proper hat box ready to travel. Two warm hats have been kept back as the weather is still rather cold and we might need them in the near future.

And now I have just remembered that when I dashed up to Cornerstones at the beginning of December, I hung up a whole row of Santa hats on the pegs in the Utility Room, and they are still there.