In one scene, a kid is sitting patiently while a technician fits his head with a peculiar bonnet made of rubber tubing and wires.
There are many writers and many of some magnitude, like the stars in the heavens, some visible and some not, but they shed glory, as Bonnet makes clear without the least attempt at persuasion.
For Sunday Mass, she wore a bonnet made of black satin, with little felt bobbins that hopped against her cheek in the judder, as my grandfather drove helter-skelter so as not to be late.
A private library of good size is an insolent form of riches, and the desire to have more books is difficult to rationalize, especially in view of the fact that you do not or cannot read them all but, as Bonnet makes clear, still you might.
The auction includes a fancywork bonnet made for a friend who was not a Shaker, a presentation sewing box and a booklet describing presents in a "Spiritual Box," including a cage with singing birds, a pineapple and sugar kisses from a "Mother Lucy".
I later got into PJ Harvey and Hole and Elastica whose singer Justine Frischmann's lyrics about fucking boys in cars ("Every shining bonnet makes me think of my back on it") felt way more emancipatory than the "shouting is fun!" sloganeering of the Spice Girls.
Speaking of wet, I remember my mum having things called galoshes, which went over her shoes to keep her feet dry and I notice that this year Hunter has pitched in with an extremely practical rain boot I'm sure it won't be long before we see Pac A Macs and folded plastic rain bonnets making a comeback (over my dead body).
Her mother had told her that if she wanted pretty clothes, she'd have to make them herself, so she did: dresses with giant polka dots and deckchair stripes, bonnets made of white flowers, tied under the chin with a satin bow.
Some ladies are determined to sport bonnets made of cheese.
In the winter, ladies wore bonnets made of thicker material.
The cake, decorated with blue-bonnet was made at Schraffts.
