Catch up with you at the next cartoon.

However, I wondered how one of those dolls might look as a fascinator … perhaps on a horse or a bloke? We’d have to take its legs off, but the frock would make for a good close fit. Does that idea make you smile?

It’s also interesting to contemplate how lavatory fashions changed over our childhood. The long drop was replaced by the flush WC, and the accessories expanded. Seat lids got covers, toilet paper was hidden, aerosols appeared and brand named plastic bottles took up space. Sometimes toilet brushes had to be covered with craftwork too, do you remember any of those fashions?

(Edit - Criticism yes, insults no)

I think your mother did the right thing … some things should not ever see the light of day.

But they would make for such a good fascinator, yes.

@ROBB164: I have a theory about fascinators and their evolution.

One day when I was a school kid I was looking at mum’s hats and came across something that didn’t seem to be a hat at all. It was white and had the stiff folds of a ballerina’s tutu sticking out, like a tutu. Also it had a large black, false, rose plunked on it.
When she got home from work she found me trying to put it on my head. It turned out to be a lavatory-seat cover than an American visitor had given her. And I believe this strange object was hermaphroditic and sort of mated with itself to produce all those dinky little ‘fascinators’.
It must have been a quick process because mum burnt it the following day.

Along with vague pictures of the species of Russian oligarch who just cleaned up our horse race. How vexing! Only thirty years ago, there was no such thing. Now, we must fear the approach of foreigners. And to think, at the beginning of the 20th century, we only had to worry about Pharlap from New Zealand. I shall cover my face and look mysterious immediately.

Right on the zeitgeist, dudes!

How do they reproduce? What do they eat? Are they under threat from global warming? Should they be studied by scientists to make sure they aren’t threatened, or just be farmed by fashionistas, perhaps under a voluntary self regulation code? Can they be casseroled? Or perhaps they could be bred … to capture CO2 from the oceans? Or even better, can we use the larger fascinators for cleaner coal burning, and can they be included in the ETS?

The possibilities were endless and made me wet my pants. So I had to share my joy.