The best hat in the world
Going for a weeks sailing on Saturday and have been getting very worried because I couldn't find my hat, my hat is a wonderful mock safari hat bought in Kenya, it is absolutely essential for me to have a wide brimmed hat when in the sun a lot because I daren't put sunblock above my eyes (which react very, very badly). I looked and looked but could not find it. It was a real concern.
Wide brimmed hats are not that easy to replace, especially one with a decent (non elasticated) chin strap suitable for sailing. Basically your looking and novelty cowboy hats, cricket hats, or IQ reducers (baseball caps). But I had the day off today and was in London (spent the night at a mates after the bloomsbury gig) so I was sure I could find a hat there.
Of course I hadn't a clue where to look, started a Covent garden but got nowhere, the type of hat I want isn't in fasion and all the shops there are constrained by that straightjacket. Wandered down the strand towards Waterloo, around Charing Cross, nothing. Then found a chadlery at the foot of the jubilee footbridge where they were selling overpriced, but ideal, hats. Ummed and erred for an age and then bought one, life without a hat being too awful to contimplate.
Course I got home and immediatly found my old hat stuck half behind, half underneath, the sofa.
Very annoying. But then I read the blurb about the new hat...
Not only is it rated 30+ UV protection by the UK Radiological Society (well duh, it's opaque).
Not only is it teflon coated for water resitance.
Nopt only does it have a 'passport' pocket.
Not only is it impregnated with insect repelant.
But "This hat uses special 'Hydro Cool' crystals. These crystals are stiched into the front of the inner headband of the hat. If you need to cool down, simply soak this front section in water for about 3 minutes - the crystals will absorb and retain the water and keep on cooling you for days and are fully reusable - simple rehydrate the crystals as above"
I was half suprised to discover it wasn't bluetooth. Surely this is the best hat in the world.
Also, whilst I was wearing it Owen scored a blinder of a goal, then I took it off to let my flatmate see the telly better and everything went pearshaped.
