The Doctor steadied her chin on her hand and grinned like she'd swallowed a pair of elephants as she looked at the hat rack before her.

"So?" she said loudly to the mostly empty room, "What do you think?"

A deep rumble of regret bubbled up from somewhere in the TARDIS. Obviously this was a bit more complicated than timeship indigestion.

"What?" the Doctor quipped, scrubbing hand through hair and blowing out her lips.

The hat rack, draped in an old seven-colored scarf and smelling faintly of peppermint, said nothing.

"No, no! I am not dyeing my roots!"