Morris Minor Owners Club

I'm rather fond of the traditional flat cap. As worn by my hero Cleggy ,in 'Last of the Summer Wine'. Apparently I resemble him...

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Woolly hats make my scalp itch like crazy so baseball cap to keep the draught off![/quote]
Not positioned back to front I hope!

Indeed not! Peak to the front at all times! I've become self-conscious about my attire, espcially since reading somewhere recently that men over 27 years of age shouldn't wear 'hoodies' as they look stupid in them... at 56 years old I habitually wear them in winter... branded and colour-coded to my choice of baseball cap

Don't do woolly hats, they make a right mess of my curly locks

Hoody fan myself, but no front zip!!!! Cannot wear baseball caps - arrested too many idiots wearing them !

SteveClem wrote:I'm rather fond of the traditional flat cap. As worn by my hero Cleggy ,in 'Last of the Summer Wine'. Apparently I resemble him...

I had my first at the age of 14 (Plus a few since, one of which has straps, like Foggy's, so it doesn't blow off in the Midget). I also like Last of the Summer Wine and enjoy all the characters, including the timid (But often wise) Clegg. I always enjoy Clegg at the wheel.

One of my caps was replaced after the previous one got blown off in a snow storm. A few days later, whilst driving along, I spotted the old one lying on top of the snow, so I retrieved it (It had shrunk a little, so I had it stretched and dry cleaned) and I still have it over 30 years later. The replacement has been worn a lot and was even re lined by a lady who works at the Blists Hill Museum.

palacebear wrote:Woolly hats make my scalp itch like crazy so baseball cap to keep the draught off!

One of the first things I brought after getting Basil (name carried over from previous owners due to BSL*** reg) was a pair of 'Bump Caps' for me and the Mrs to wear when working on the car.
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SteveClem wrote:I'm rather fond of the traditional flat cap. As worn by my hero Cleggy ,in 'Last of the Summer Wine'. Apparently I resemble him...

I watched an early Last of the Summer Wine and Clegg ended up buying a Morris Minor Tourer for £30. Needless to say, it ended up being shunted.

Wasn't he a Lino salesman in pre retirement? I didn't do that...just other antediluvian ways of earning a living

Steve, you have just used my favourite word - antediluvian - I just love the sound and the meaning .

My golly - the ways of earning a living must be old - 'Antediluvian' means the time before the Biblical Flood.
Happy New Year.
Phil

and there is ante-antediluvian as well!

On the subject of vanity and keeping up appearances, I have just been told a tale of a plumber, who works away most of the week and who's wife is hard work. As an example, she gets him to drive to places where celebrities are known to be appearing, in the hope that she can be photographed or filmed in the background and when one of the neighbours had a new 70 inch TV (Must have a big room to justify a screen that big), the plumber's wife dragged the box and left it outside her house, in the hope that people would infer that they had bought a 70 inch TV. Apparently she is in her mid fifties, when you would expect most people to have grown out of that kind of thing . I think this beats sending the Waitrose delivery away, when it's in a plain white van.

'Vanitas vanitatum dixit Ecclesiastes omnia vanitas!' as they say around our way !

I never wear hats of any kind. which is probably why I have a full head of hair at 57! Baseball caps are for chavs, flat caps in our area are a very 'young farmer' and tweed thing. A few well-to-do chavs wear flat caps and look even more ridiculous.

firedrake1942 wrote:'Vanitas vanitatum dixit Ecclesiastes omnia vanitas!' as they say around our way !

A policemans lot is not a happy one?

But I have worn flat caps and helmets (beat and riot) for 31 years and I have only receded slightly - a retired policeman's lot is a very happy one esp. with a Minor to play with.

Never did that particular G&S operetta, but I'd recommend Iolanthe. It's satire of parliament is still very amusing.

And true! They are a pompous self serving lot. Lots of 'Do you know who I am Officer?' 'I pay your wages' etc. The get quite cross when the reply to 1 is 'No do you know who i am .... No? .... that makes us even then!' and to 2 ' Actually I think I pay yours as well !'

firedrake1942 wrote:And true! They are a pompous self serving lot. Lots of 'Do you know who I am Officer?' 'I pay your wages' etc. The get quite cross when the reply to 1 is 'No do you know who i am .... No? .... that makes us even then!' and to 2 ' Actually I think I pay yours as well !'

When one of my old managers tried that with one of the workers the one he asked turned to his colleagues and said "there's a guy here doesn't know who he is" That went down well.