Making History

tinyjo is currently doing an Open University course in history. This is excellent, as she is kind enough to keep the serious learning and document analysis to herself, but to supply me with those tit-bits and oddities that were the only bits of history I was ever really able to enjoy or retain. One such morsel is Charles the Bold's hat, constructed, it is said, of gold and adorned with rubies and pearls. This unlikely chapeau inspired the following whismical fiction reconstruction of primary source material (which incidentally, tinyjo informs me, is actually longer than her essay on Charles, though perhaps a little less well researched):
( Extract from a Gentleman's Diary from the Olden Days )