So I’ve been a bit low-key on the web recently so I thought maybe I’d post a few updates around individual themes. First up, old news about the Innocent Smoothies-inspired Tiny Hat Project. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, here is the description I posted on the second of December:
“Concept in a nutshell: buy drinks with hats, give money to charity, wear tiny hat, get someone to take a photo, look dumb, get dumped by your partner, embrace the fundamental pain of existence. You know, for kids!”
The next thing that happens after we’re all rolling around from how funny we are with our tiny little hats is that I get a phone call from Innocent Smoothies, who are duly excited about the whole thing and want to send us free smoothies. Dumbstruck I agree delightedly and tell everyone around us the story of free smoothiedom. We all wonder to ourselves whether the drinks will have the requisite little tiny hats. Perhaps they’ll have new flavours or something…
The days pass and no tiny hats arrive. Increasingly mortified, I become embittered by the world, and – to try and feel better in my desperate isolation – turn to drugs and murder and the humiliation of children. But still, nothing arrives… Until finally I get a phone call from reception – or more to the point Webb gets a phone-call from reception. Apparently the drinks have been sitting in the post-office for several days now uncollected, have gone off and fermented, exploded a little bit and ruined a bit of the carpet. They are thrown away…
Consequence of which is that my faith in Innocent has been restored, which makes me feel better. On the other hand, my faith in the communications around the BBC has been dented a bit. And I have no more little hats, or health giving smoothie-related vitamins. But I have a vaguely entertaining story to tell, so in the end everything worked out okay. Or so everyone will believe until I die of scurvy…