A simple and effective way to protect your face from the sun, get less wrinkles, regulate your temperature, avoid the squint and mitigate the risk of skin cancer.
Wear your hat! I am NOT kidding. I never ever go out into sunlight without my hat. And sunblock is so full of chemicals. Did you know that 75% of sunscreen brands contain microplastics. These wash into our oceans and water ways. I don’t want to encourage their manufacture. You never have to re-apply a hat!
Plus: Hats are back in fashion you know.
Pus there was was less skin cancer when everyone wore hats and long sleeves. Even in 1950 a diagnosis of invasive melanoma was rare and sunblock was unheard of – but hats were the fashion.
Buy a good well made hat that you can jam in your bag or suitcase.
I bought this hat about 5 years ago and it has been farming and travelling with me ever since.
On a side note: (humour) I asked ChatGPT to suggest a heading for this article and here is what it wrote. “As an AI language model, I don’t have a physical form, so I can’t wear a hat”.
I find AI immensely entertaining.
The weather is going to be about the same as yesterday. Still dry. The birds fly all around the pond all day popping in for a drink or a bath.
Big Jude is the gentlest most social hog ever. Where-as FreeBee chats to me the whole time and moves fast from one area to the other. I am with them Jude will stand and watch carefully in case any more food is in the offing.
Quacker is still sitting on her nest. Every day she comes off the eggs, carefully covers them up, then rushes about the property getting something to eat, getting something to drink then sprinting for the pond for a quick swim before she throws herself back on the nest.
I don’t think these eggs are going to hatch though – it has been too long now. Actually I am not sure about that; I will job back through the posts and check the date I gave her fresh eggs.
Have a great day today!
I am taking The Matriarch out to run some errands.
Celi
Oh and if you would like to listen to My Sunday Sustainable Short – Podcast – HERE is the link. The Sunday Shorts will never be longer than 10 minutes and always on a Sunday. I hope. But you know that sometimes I might do something different! 😂🦋
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31 responses to “Stylish and Sun-Safe. The Power of The Hat.”
We’ll all need to take a tip from the pigs and cover ourselves in mud!
It has crossed my mind!!
They sell argile verte (a green clay mudpack) as a beauty treatment in France. Don’t tell Freebee, it’s £10.50 for a 2.5kg bucket!
He will want it for sure. Maybe he and I could have a mud spa day!
ROFL. Jude will want it too!
Animals have such personalities! If you work with them and around them you know.
These two big pigs are so different!
Just like people 🙂
I’m back to hats and long sleeves as I’ve had 2 skin cancers in the last few years due ti my younger days of foolishness in the sun
Yup! Me too. I am all about the hat abd long sleeves. I need to find a really good really light second hand cotton cardi.
I totally y agree with you about sun screen. When my kids were little(many years ago) l always had them in hats and long sleeves in the Summer and they never burnt, despite two of them being red heads. Mind you l have to admit to being very naughty about my own hat wearing. Lovely to have a Jude catch up thank you. Poor Quaker, let’s hope those eggs are viable!
Yes. Poor Quacker. She is such a dedicated wee duck.
I always feel delightfully eccentric in a big sunhat.
I always wear a hat out too. It gives me hat head, but I no longer care. I found one EWG approved sunscreen that isn’t full of gunk, but it is tremendously more expensive than just grabbing my hat!
PS the usual sunscreens kept my eyes weeping all day long!
Oh yes!! It is awful when sunscreen gets in your eyes!! You are so tight about the expense of them too/ they are diabolically expensive in NZ and we begin to burn after 15 minutes out there.
Try and hang in there with Quackers. So many times we have thought our ducks were sitting on eggs that would never hatch, or that they had been sitting on the eggs forever, like months, and then lo and behold they come on out one day with lots of ducklings. I’m so hoping that this is the case with Quackers!!!
Though they will be chicks as in chickens. None of this is normal so we will see. But I won’t push her off. She is all alone now the flock has gone: and she seems happy spending her time of that nest. She is such a dear wee quacker. Thanks for the positive reinforcement Di. I was feeling sad for her. You did good.
That’s a very nice hat. In a household full of hats my go to is an old straw Stetson style sold by a big hardware chain as a promo… I bought one for my Dad and decided I liked it but removed the advertising band. It works well in the garden but not packable for a suitcase… at any rate I’d get some looks if I wore it anywhere else.
A straw Stetson! Sounds great. I wear mine truly everywhere – shopping the lot. But out here people go shopping in their pajamas!
You do realise that ChatGPT has a hat as part of his digital manifestation…? Right in the middle of his name. I wonder how he’d feel about having it pointed out! I’m a serious fan of hats; I have 16 of them hanging on the wall in our laundry loo, handy for when I’m heading out the back door. Some of them fold up for travel, some not. It’s a bit of a necessity in our climate, along with always walking in shade where available and not wearing anything made from man-made fibres. I also don’t wear sunscreen, mostly because it makes me break out (I hadn’t realised about the micro-plastics), and in 20 years I’ve not had a single skin cancer scare, which is something for northern Australia.
16 hats sounds delicious! And yes. NZ also – my family all wear hats. In fact fourth son was in a hat shop the other day and sending me pictures with much delight. He could not make up his mind! It was so funny!
I generally wear a hat or ball cap in the summer because ever since the ‘change’ my head produces copious amounts of sweat. It gets in my eyes behind my contacts and burns, runs down my face and drips off my nose and ears. Not at all attractive! I also detest wearing any kind of glasses so use the hat brims to keep the sun out of my eyes. My favorite is a straw cowboy hat with a chunk out of the brim – put there by a cantankerous mare I had. One of these days the whole hat band is going to fall apart, rotted by all the sweat it’s caught.
That is so sweet that your horse bit your hat!! It would be special after that!
I wish I could find a well-made wide brimmed hat that was packable, compressible and popped back into shape. I have a cotton one, but it’s all limp and floppy, and it annoys me.
Sea grass apparently. This one packs amazingly well.
I’ll look into that, c. Thanks.
Hats and sunnies…perfect summer style 🙂
All my bases covered! Evening Miss T!!
Evening Miss C!
Love hats!
Me too!!