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November 1st, 2010

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choir hats

Image: choir hats. For illustration purposes only.

I’m sorry not to have updated this blog for over ten days. I’ve been suffering from low morale and general loss of diagrammatical confidence and so didn’t have anything good enough to blog. I still don’t have anything good enough to blog, but have decided to remedy the situation by lowering the bar of quality considerably, so that any old rubbish will be fit to post.

This is a picture of the hats as worn by the choir members at my church. When I say ‘my church’ I mean the one that I go to on an occasional basis. Apparently hats of this kind are unusual in choral circles. I certainly think that these are some of the pointiest* hats that I have seen. The choir is also unusual in that there are four women and they all look identical**.

* It irritates me that my spellchecker doesn’t like the word ‘pointiest’.
** I’m just being silly now. Expect more of this kind of thing.

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21 Responses to “Information about the future direction of this blog”


  1. Ed says:

    Nice one!

    November 1st, 2010 at 12:30 am
  2. Sarah says:

    May everything improve for you! Hope you feel in better spirits soon. Vacation?

    November 1st, 2010 at 12:41 am
  3. Deborah says:

    any blog from you is welcome! Look after yourself – you bring so much pleasure to so many people, try doing something for YOU for a change. God bless.

    November 1st, 2010 at 10:04 am
  4. Russ says:

    Dave, I know very well how hard it is to keep up with a blog, particularly when you’re not 100%.
    Hang on in there, take a break, don’t analyse too much and be nice to yourself.
    Sometimes God uses you most when you feel like nothing’s happening …
    Take care

    November 1st, 2010 at 11:43 am
  5. Nicola says:

    I am personally delighted with this post. For the first time ever, I saw hats just like this being worn at a church I was visiting this summer. I wanted to explode with ‘BAHAHAHAHA’-style laughter, but I didn’t. So I’ve done it now, instead.

    November 1st, 2010 at 12:11 pm
  6. chris clark says:

    The bar is not lowered, just taken to a different level..

    All the ladies are looking right…is this a new political direction as well?

    November 1st, 2010 at 12:43 pm
  7. Margaret says:

    Hi Dave, I’ve been away on holiday so have not been checking your blog/twitter. I’m sorry if you have felt that lack of support. Any blog by you brightens my day. You may think you are lowering the bar but generally your blogs are so funny that even your pencil shavings would probably make me chuckle.

    November 1st, 2010 at 12:56 pm
  8. Chris Carnall says:

    Sorry to hear about the low morale issues, Dave – especially when you do so much to raise everyone else’s morale!

    Please take the excellent advice above!

    November 1st, 2010 at 1:05 pm
  9. Mrs Jacalyn Oghan says:

    Im sorry to hear that you are suffering from low moral etc. Being creative can do that to a person! I’ve been teaching Sunday school for nearly 15 years and am always coming up with different wacky ideas to teach children about Jesus and the Christian way of life. Occasionally I come to a stumbling block and my moral and creativity level becomes very low. I usually just pray about it and in no time at all God inspires me or I take a little break. I shall pray for you too. Take care and God bless

    November 1st, 2010 at 1:22 pm
  10. Liz from the sewing room says:

    Everyone has down times, your normal stuff is so funny, that even the stuff you think isnt funny is still funny. I laughed at this, I remember from my childhood these silly hats, and my late aunt was a choir mistress in a church who wore robes like this, and there were only half a dozen very old ladies in the choir and their voices had long their former sweetness and ability to stay in key, but it was all taken SO SO seriously by members. I suspect many other just laughed.

    November 1st, 2010 at 1:35 pm
  11. Dave (but a different Dave, not that Dave... um...) says:

    Question: Is your moral low because you didn’t win any awards, despite such hard efforts to impress the judges?
    My advice, draw yourself an award and do a presentation within your glorious spacious offices office. That’ll perk you up no end!
    God bless

    November 1st, 2010 at 2:58 pm
  12. Sara says:

    Is there a minimum requirement for a choir to be a choir? I’d thought four was more of a small group, really. ‘Choirs of angels’ etc sounds a lot less impressive if actually there’s only four of them.
    I must confess a slight disappointment with the headgear (although the diagram itself is as usual topnotch). Being a naive churchgoer, I had imagined that the pointiestness would be down to the height of the point not the number of pointy bits on the hat. I think I am going to have to go off and design some multypointy hats to keep myself happy.
    Silly is good, by the way, in a world where there are plenty too many deadly serious people.

    November 1st, 2010 at 3:00 pm
  13. David Keen says:

    Come on Dave, admit it, you’re just cheesed at not coming first in that blog gong thingy. Rejoice at this: the BBC’s Nick Robinson was given first prize by some blogging contest, despite the fact that his ‘posts’ are simply a transcript of his portentious ponderings on the News at 10. If that’s top prize blogging, give me joint second any day.

    How about a pie chart on where those millions of pounds of bishops expenses go?

    November 1st, 2010 at 5:56 pm
  14. Sue says:

    Whilst I was at college I managed to get the choir at the church we went to, to ditch the silly pointy hats. We had a minor pointy-hat rebellion and they were consigned to the place where pointy hats go when they retire. We were happy about this. The pointy hats’ opinion is not recorded.

    November 1st, 2010 at 7:53 pm
  15. Bob Gould says:

    My dear Dave,

    You should be aware of how many of the silent majority really value your cartoons, silly or not! Do keep up the good work, at least until some oldies like me have a chance to pop off!

    November 1st, 2010 at 8:56 pm
  16. Dave says:

    Just a note to say thank you for the kind comments here. As always I appreciate them.

    Please forgive a lack of in-depth responses today. I’m still telling myself that some kind of drawing might be achieved tonight.

    November 1st, 2010 at 10:48 pm
  17. Sarah says:

    Hats! This is obviously what our choir has been missing. I shall suggest them at the earliest opportunity.
    I find it glorious that the General Synod has an official cartoonist. It is someting I treasure every day.

    November 1st, 2010 at 10:53 pm
  18. Pam Smith says:

    I think these could actually be depressed mitres rather than choir hats.

    If I’m correct, what you have drawn here is group of women Bishops who disguised themselves as a choir during the Lambeth Conference and don’t realise it’s over.

    They could have squashed their mitres down with something they found in the vestry – perhaps a disused potato masher – to deflect suspicion.

    The tufts in the middle could be small pieces of oasis deployed to disguise the pointed ends of the mitres.

    November 2nd, 2010 at 12:53 am
  19. NickG says:

    Sorry to hear you are suffering from low morals. I am afraid that this often happens when people join the General Synod, so I can only suggest you resign immediately.
    You also might try ethical cartooning; it’s not as funny as normal cartooning but you can charge slightly more, and you will sleep better at night.

    November 2nd, 2010 at 8:15 am
  20. susimort says:

    I just wanted to add my ‘sorrys’ to everyone else’s! When I have an ‘off day’ I get cheered up by your wonderful cartoons. So THANK YOU.

    November 2nd, 2010 at 11:09 am
  21. Dave says:

    Just one or two replies:

    Greatly appreciating continued kind comments.

    Greatly enjoying discussion of my low morals.

    Sarah – I’m afraid Synod has no official cartoonist, or if it does it is the first I’ve heard of it and it isn’t me.

    I can assure everyone that my recent joint second place in awards has nothing to do with my current difficulties. I really was very happy just to go along. A blogger who doesn’t post for 10 days would not have been a worthy winner in any case.

    For info: I take too many breaks and do too much for myself. But the sentiments are appreciated.

    Margaret – I will endeavour to post some pencil shavings shortly.

    Post on hats to follow.

    November 2nd, 2010 at 6:36 pm