Happy Wednesday All,

Sorry for missing yesterday, I had keyboard issues, my A and S didnt work.
Which w.. re.lly nnoying ..

In today's (late issue)

Poem Inspiration
A poem
Question Impossible
Facts about hats

So people ask "where do you get your ideas from ?"
Ideas can come anywhere at anytime, so, always carry something to scribble on,
you never know when you might use that idea.

Recently I was given the subject "green hat" that was it...... just a green hat.
The green hat is a metaphor for creativity. This is what I came up with :-

I wear the green hat upon my

head

From when I awake till I take to my

 bed

I wear it at some jaunty 

angles

The feather on top either erects or it

dangles

I think it makes me look quite

dapper

A writer, poet, or even a 

rapper

I resemble an old Robin

Hood

I'd take from the rich and give to the

good

And in the end it keeps my head

warm

And stops my thoughts from becoming a

storm

Question Impossible

This is where I ask you, a very difficult question, almost impossible, you wont get it

unless you cheat, let's face it, everyone does....!!!

Which comedian devised the 1980s television game show Bullseye?

Hat Facts

First hat

The earliest record of hat-wearing comes from a cave at Lussac-les-Châteaux in central France. The rock drawings there are 15,000 years old and we’ve been putting things on our heads ever since.

Smart hat

Students of the medieval theologian John Duns Scotus (1265-1308) were the first to wear dunce’s caps. The idea was the cap would funnel God’s wisdom into the head.

High hat

The tall chef’s hat or toque blanche traditionally had 100 pleats to represent the number of ways an egg could be cooked. 

Flat hat

The beret started out as a Pyrenean shepherd’s hat. In 1918, the British Tank Corps trained with the French mountain regiment. The Tank Corps started wearing the caps as they were close fittting, and with no peaks to snag on things. Berets were perfect for tank crews. They were also cheap to make, didn’t show sweat stains and were easy to carry. This has made them the universal hat for the modern soldier.

Black hat

The bowler hat, symbol of the City of London commuter, began life as a riding helmet. It was designed in 1849 by the London hatmakers Thomas and William Bowler as a tough, low-rise hat to protect mounted gamekeepers from low-hanging branches. Its practicality and strength made it the hat of choice for American cowboys, who knew it as the derby.

Old hat

This once meant something rather different from its current usage of “out of date”. Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1796) defines “old hat” as “a woman’s privities, because frequently felt”. Hat felt was made from beaver or rabbit fur that had been ground, squeezed and heated.

No hat

No one knows why people stopped wearing hats after the Second World War. New hairstyles, the rise of the car, demobilisation – even the new fashion for sunglasses – all took the blame for the sudden abandonment of the hat. At first the hat industry thought hatlessness was a passing fad and newspaper reports of 1948 bemoaned the new “barehead” fashion.

Question Impossible...

Which comedian devised the 1980s television game show Bullseye?

Answer... Norman Vaughan

And finally......a song about hats !!