O Happy Day!!

[thingogram]

First, the random outburst:
I want some brownies. Or cake. Or something. But all the easy recipes have baking powder in them, and I don't have any. There's one that involves just mashing together raisins and carob powder, but I do not own a food processor. I can't use substitutes in a non-vegan recipe, or even just make a bowl of icing and eat it

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[jenoofer]

I would be very jealous of you if you owned a bowler hat. I'm not sure I have the face for a round hat - I do love my fedora and would wear it more often if it wasn't for the hassle it gets me in Barnsley - you'd think people had never seen anyone wearing a hat before.

I do have a walking stick-umbrella, which I adore - an automatic one which is black with a pink lining, and looks pretty dapper when I carry it while wearing my black suit. I could do with a new suit, actually - I pretty much live in my black trouser suits when I'm teaching, but this school's uniform is black trousers and blazer, and if I'm not careful I get mistaken for one of the kids (even some of the Year 7s are taller than me!)

[thingogram]

You get hassle just for wearing a hat? Holy christy! They're hardly unusual. I will never understand people.
My mum's always going on about how she can't wear hats at all, but she just can't seem to get it that a fedora was never meant to be worn right back on your head.

And I'm jealous of your umbrella. If I wasn't fast approaching skintness, I'd get one. We could go out all film noir :-D

Year 7s get smaller every year (or at least they did in my school), so eventually, you'll be in luck.

[jenoofer]

In Barnsley, 'hat' means baseball cap or woolly hat. Things with brims are practically witchcraft!

Actually, most of the time I just get stared at (and have learned that the best thing to do is give a big cheesy grin to anyone who stares too long). Occasionally I do get comments, in which case (if I'm feeling brave enough) I often doff my hat to whoever's said it and tell them how wonderful it is to be recognised for the freak that I am.

Year 7s do tend to start out tiny and squashable, but something seems to happen around November and they put down roots and shoot up like weeds! I have about three months, if I'm lucky, of being able to look down at them.

[thingogram]

Hahahaha, o god- the image has just popped into my head- The Barnsley Witch Trials. A crusade against black magic and tasteful headgear!

I do love your response to them. You're a legend XD

Hmm, Burntwood must just breed midgets then. Aside from the odd few ,they were all tiny until Year 9. Maybe you should just wear massive boots and hide them under really long trousers.

[jenoofer]

Oh, I so would have been tried as a witch if I'd been born a few hundred years ago. Even without the hat!

I have discovered that, when faced with insults and stupidity, cheeky grins and even weirder behaviour works nine times out of ten. I only wish I had known that fifteen years ago.

Maybe you should just wear massive boots and hide them under really long trousers.

The really sad thing is, I actually have been wearing platforms the past couple of days!