Dress Of The Day with Angela

  Angela Lansbury at The Tanglin Club, belated birthday lunch. Photo by Trevor Sharot. We had lunch at The Tanglin Club in Singapore. We had told them on booking that it was my birthday. In case they forgot, I had with me both a home made badge with the words happy birthday stuck over it (which sank to the bottom of my tote bag and got forgotten), and my happy birthday hat from Daiso. It is small enough to pack inside a small handbag. it can be seen by serving staff close up, without causing a distraction to others in a restaurant. The Happy Birthday Hat That worked a treat. Firstly, a member of staff wished me happy birthday.  Later, another member of staff wished me happy birthday, and produced a cigarette lighter and asked if I wanted him to light the candle on my hat. (A joke of course. The candle is fabric.) By then, I had forgotten that I was wearing it.  Without prompting they produced a tiny one person cheesecake with a lit candle. Instead of writing the words hap...

I was giving a speech about St Patrick's Day at a Toastmasters International speakers' training club. The previous speaker was evaluated. The evaluator complimented the speaker on being dressed appropriately to match the speech subject.   Oops. I need a suitable hat or scarf to go with my speech. I looked at the outfits online. Not just free tee-shirts. Most of the people worthy of being photographed were wearing high hats, like leprechauns.   How to make a hat? I could take a baseball hat and cover it in green fabric. No green fabric? I could print green and fold the paper. How to fold it? Use the baseball hat as the base, with green paper over the brim and crown. The crown was the wrong shape. I could make a cake shape, circular with a flat top.  I looked at my hats and my eyes discovered my happy birthday Daiso mini hat.  Angela Lansbury in Daiso Happy Birthday hat. Selfie. Much easier to cover in a hurry. I didn't even need fabric. A couple of pieces of gree...

Selfie of Angela Lansbury with birthday flowers. Flowers with two Ferrero chocolates on sticks, Ferrero chocolate box, and baloon with the words Happy Birthday, Delivered by Flower Chimp of Singapore. Selfie by Angela Lansbury.  The hat from Daiso is in silver with the words Happy Birthday. The label says Mini Birthday hat. Sparkling with elastic. Made in China. I took a selfie and the words Happy Birthday appeared reversed. I was able to reverse the photo right to left using the edit function on my Samsung mobile phone.  I took another photo and the reverse left to right function had disappeared I must have had the hat lying around for some time. The elastic has gone too stretched so the hat keeps slipping sideways. I could shorten the elastic, change the elastic, or add two ribbons and tie it under my chin at the front or under my hair at the back. I tied a knot in the elastic to shorten it and that did the trick. The family had asked me" What do you want for your birthday?...