From the age of about 14, up until the age of about 39/40, I had a 'tache, or a beard. I also had hair, and bushy eyebrows. (We won't go downstairs!)
The 'tache was part of my face for so long that when I eventually shaved it off for good, people thought I looked physically sick. They said things like "You don't look right, have you been ill?, I can't put my finger on it, but you, my friend, look wrong!"
Because it was when I started shaving my heid, and my barber said I couldn't have bushy eyebrows with a bald noggin, and clipped them back to within an inch of their lives, that I decided to shave the 'tache.
I actually felt naked for quite a while. My upper lip trembled at the thought of going outdoors, into the wide open world.
But eventually, we, my lip & I, became accustomed to the stares, and the cold, and the cold stares!
I grew a beard a few years ago. Imagine a ginger Santa. It didn't look good in June. It didn't make July.
It's Movember, a time when Irish men of all ages (and men of some other countries, not to mention a few women) stop shaving on the 1st of November to raise funds for, and awareness of, men's Cancer.
Being in the business of show, and having to look one's best at all times for one's public , I have never participated in such shenannigans. But yesterday, having shaved the heid, I let the face go wild. Two days in, it doesn't look much, a mixture of grey & ginger, a slight shadow on an otherwise handsome fisoge. I have a gig with the two-piece this very evening and I will decide just minutes before the gig if I shall shave or not.
Herself will not approve, though she fell for the moustachioed Map many moons ago. Or maybe she will be tickled grey!
Think 'Magnum', think 'Freddie Mercury', Think '70's Porn Star'!
I know you want it!
I want photographic proof, Map! Movember is very big over here. I know lots of men participating.
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ReplyDeleteFirst up, good on you for joining the cause and growing a new rug.
ReplyDeleteI to look forward to the photos...
I found I didnt like shaving the first year I started needing to (about 1974)I decided to grow the beard and have never shaved it since. I met my wife, fathered 3 girls and divorced all without ever shaving. My girls and now 29 and they still have never seen their father without a beard. I'm sure if I shaved they wouldn't know me. (not that I intend to shave...ever)
Add another "Good for you!" to the pile...and a 2nd for Ponita's motion for photographs. :)
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't be fitting for me to make jokes or insults about you growing facial fungus simply because of the importance of the cause.
ReplyDeleteAs ever I shall back you, support you, whatever you want to call it.
Even though you do look like a tube. (Scottish slang - best not to ask)
No, the MoS doesn't participate... he always has facial hair in some form or another. Right now he has a goatee.
ReplyDeleteSo are we gonna see your face???
Pon; In good time my friend. :¬)
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Tempo; WOW! Since 1974? I always imagined you clean-shaven, don't know why, just did. :¬)
ReplyDeletehope; I'm waiting to see what colour it will be! (Prob ginger & white!) :¬)
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Chef; Thank you for your support, I shall wear it always! All donations gratefully accepted. Though I was never anybody's tube. :¬)
ReplyDeletePon; Be wary of the face of which you wish to look upon. :¬/
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No face... no 3am creak on the stairs trace...
ReplyDeleteI could never grow decent facial hair! It comes in in patches and I look like a mental patient. Not enough testosterone, I suppose. I'm jealous.
ReplyDeleteHi, just to let you all know that wee Martin is absent for a while while his court case is ongoing.
ReplyDeleteThe jury is still out, but it looks as though they will accept his admission of innocently nipping into the field full of sheep for a pee and one of the sheep accidently backed on to him because of the fog.
He will return (with good behaviour and early parole) by Feb 2013.
Thank you for your patience.... baaaa baaaa