hats

We are entering the sweaty time of year again, and I find the sun can give me headaches. I've taken up wearing my Akubra Territory hat again. However certain well-meaning friends have alerted me to the fact that it is a fashion crime to be seen with such a wide-brimmed enormous hat. It really is just short of a sombrero. I comfort myself by thinking of an analogous situation involving a former flatmate Ben, who always wore earplugs to nightclubs. He told his friends that he might look silly now but he wouldn't be deaf in 20 years' time. I will warn my well-meaning friends about melanoma...