WHAT IS THE HATVENT CALENDAR?
This is the third year of PompeyChicken's Hatvent Calendar! It's a bit like an online Advent Calendar.
It's been inspired by the Innocent Drinks company who have been putting little woolen hats on their bottles of smoothies as part of The Big Knit, in aid of the charity Age UK.
You may have seen them on sale in Sainsbury's. PompeyChicken's family has been drinking a lot of smoothies again this year and each hat continues to be a perfect fit!
Two year's ago the Hatvent Calendar made connections between each hat and Pompey.
Last year underneath each hat PompeyChicken unveiled a favourite Pompey video clip.
This year he's been looking through the bookshelves to identify some of his favourite football books. Quite a few have a link to Pompey but not all.
You can read more about the Big Knit, which has been running since 2003, by clicking on the link at the end of this blog.
I hope you enjoy this year's Hatvent Calendar.
POMPEYCHICKEN'S HAT OF THE DAY
TODAY'S BOOK
This book is 'Football's Comic Heroes' by Adam Riches.
Although famous comic heroes such as Roy Race (of Roy of the Rovers), Billy's Boots, Nipper and Hot Shot Hamish are all included here this book covers so many more, less familiar characters. For example: Stark Matchwinner For Hire, The Goalmaker, Dozy Danny, Fireworks Flynn, Cast-Iron Bill, Iron Barr, Limp-Along Leslie, Biffalo Bill, Gorgeous Gus and many more! And I didn't make any of those up!
Comics also had some fabulous names too: Victor For Boys, Valiant, Score 'n' Roar, Scorcher, Jag, Hurricane, The Hornet, The Hotspur, Wizard, Tiger, Adventure, The Champion and The Rover.
For someone who grew up with comics and Tiger and Scorcher in particular this was one book I had to include in the Hatvent Calendar for 2012 as it brings back so many happy memories of days long gone. Enjoy!
You can find out more about this book on Amazon here ==> Football's Comic Book Heroes
LAST YEAR'S HAT
Click on the following link to see the hat and video from one year ago ==> Hatvent Calendar 7th December 2011
WHAT IS THE BIG KNIT?
To find out more about Innocent Smoothies and the Big Knit you can click on the following link ==> The Big Knit
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