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[caddyman]

I'll probably regret it in the morning, but I have just run the clippers over my pate and cut my beard back to a goatee.

It all took longer than it should; I think I shall have to dismantle the clippers for a good clean and oil before I use them next time. Or maybe buy a new set. They seem to need stripping down more and more frequently these days and I fear that the motor is probably not as strong as it once was. The reason I think I might buy a spare set is that I have a horror of the damned things packing up completely while I am part way through trimming my hair, so at best I should have to go out with a reverse Mohican, and at worst look like someone suffering from radiation sickness.

I like to think that I am no more than normally vain, but I do have some pride (and an astonishingly low embarrassment threshold in certain circumstances).

My first hair trim of the year is usually the signal for a bout of cold weather, but like the timing of the full moon, I cannot control the rate of hair growth, so sometimes I shaves me bonce earlier than I'd like. So like Punxsutawney Phil, I predict a further six weeks of winter.

Odd that my usually infallible right ankle didn't predict today's bout of cold rain, though. Make of that what you will.

Comments

[colonel-maxim.livejournal.com]

I say, he is terribly, terribly shiny. A harsh and unfriendly fellow might say positively cue-ball but fortunately I am neither that rude or brave (given his proximity and threats of physical violence.)

Wasn't cue-ball the desired effect?

[ysharros.livejournal.com]

Good God, DT, that you? I thought you were sans-LJ, or am I awfully behind the times?

Nice to ... er, read ya.

Ask Bry if you don't know who this is.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

I used to go the local barbershop and spend $10 a time, but got married and moved to the mountains, where the only barbereshop is a "hair salon" where they yap like hyaenas and charge me seventeen bloody bucks for a buzzcut - AND they don't have short enough blades (a "number one" is too long for my tastes). I know the blade itself doesn't dictate length, it's the attachment, but you get my drift.

A lady at our church told my wife to get an electric clipper by WAHL, from Wal-Mart. I don't know if you have them in the U.K., but if you can find one, I heartily recommend it. The black plastic box contains a sturdy, reliable electric clipper, lots of attachments to give you anything from a Number Ten to a barely sandpapery pate, AND a brush, a comb and CD-ROM containing some sort of wallpaper and desktop images! One can only imagine what they might consist of. Bonces we have known?

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

By the way, we've had it for a couple of years, it gets used on my skull every two or three weeks, and has not yet needed any maintenance. It cost us about $30. So even if it packs up tomorrow, it's already paid for itself.