Hello.

This seventh Weekly Hat comes to you live from Peckham, and I’ve basically taken all day to write this, so I hope you all appreciate it. Stuff has happened this week, and where better to read about it than on a site created to host amateurish hat-basedwebcomics?

Exactly. This is the best thing ever.

Oh, quick shout-out to long-time Friend Of Behatted, Ali Hale, who has both relaunched her Aliventures webpage, and more importantly, included a link to my ‘Choose Your Own Tube Strike’ piece from the second Weekly Hat. To be fair, it was pretty awesome.

This week, however, should be good too…

• Lead feature: Is swine flu still amusingly impotent? Or is it time to stop giggling and soil ourselves?
• Britain attacks Brazil with overflowing skip: Our fine nation debuts a bold new approach to democracy: Sending our used condoms to other countries without telling them.
• And now sports: Cricket! As I write this, we’re actually winning!
• Media and stuff: Another two parter…
  • I have been watching: Yours truly attends his first ever TV recording, and it was good.
  • Half Blood, Half Hormones: I’ve also seen the new Harry Potter film.
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: A magical guest this week! (Christ, I sound like a chat show host.)
• Next week: Desperation begins to set in down here.

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So, this is among the latest Weekly Hat posts ever, but in my slight defence, I got back from holiday last night and have spent most of today (with a few quite lengthy breaks) writing the damn thing. You’ll be happy to hear that I should be available to do this on time for the next few weeks. Score. And I was also glad to see that the automated postings I set up for last week’s Weekly Hat and Behatted comics actually worked.

Thank you all for being about. Now, as I’m tired and have still more Behatted tasks to do before I can lie down, on with the contents…

• Private eduction buys a photocopier: Apparently education costs money. But it could cost more!
• And then I went to Ireland…: A slightly bloggy holiday-based interlude.
• Media and stuff: New TV! New Aqua! New danger!
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: Amazed I haven’t done this one before, really.

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