Sunday 12 December 2021

Mea Culpa


Hubris.

One minute I'm crowing confidently about my rôle as resident barber about the casa.

The next, Dear Reader ... I'm sacked.

In truth, I did look dubiously at the electric clippers and thought it must have been ages since I'd wielded them as they looked, well, a bit unfamiliar in my hand.

For well they might when the 1/4 inch clipper guard wasn't in place.

It only took a goodly swipe up the back of Mr. P's head to realise my mistake.

Your Correspondent is now married to Yul Brynner.

Or Patrick Stewart.

I cannot decide.

Either way, I'm secretly pleased :)


Image credits: 1: via Pinterest; 2, 3: via Google



36 comments:

  1. A bald head can be very appealing. Even when it was not in the plan. The only complaint I've heard from bald men is: in the cold of Winter a hat is important and it is equally important in the heat of the sunshine.

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    1. I agree, dear Susan, although I did leave him with a rakish, Italian 5 o'clock shadow, so he's not entirely without some fuzz. Luckily we are ones for hats around here!

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    1. Yes, my hand may yet have been guided by my subconscious! And it's lovely to see you, dear Valentina!

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  3. He's lucky you finished the cut! Sometimes when cutting my husband's hair I think of the power I hold. I can cut half his head and then stop! The time for a little blackmail!

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    1. Ah, dear Rosalyn, your thinking is sneakier than mine! Once we both got over the shock, it was agreed I just had to keep going for the mown strip did not express anything in the least bit fashionable.

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  4. Do you use the electric clippers on men only?

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    1. Dear Hels, my clipper joint is a private club with only one member! Now I've seen what it can do in the hands of the absent-minded, I shall be a bit more cautious when waving it around near my own locks.

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  5. The tiny Barber shop in the cartoon is not unlike one very close to where I live. He cut's hair 'By Appointment Only'. I must post a photo one day.

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    1. Jungle Ned's and my shower recess are one and the same, excepting the barber's pole. I look forward to seeing your rival establishment, dear Cro.

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    2. Larson was a genius at the one-panel gag.

      Pip: I think being married to a Yul Brenner-Patrick Stewart cross could be mighty fine, indeed!

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    3. Larson was one out of the box and I'm still tickled by his stuff after the hundredth time. My New Husband will be rather tickled, too, dear Bea, to hear your endorsement :)

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  6. Tabula rasa - sometimes we have to make a clean cut.

    Life is full of surprises - and surely it is interesting to see something/one in a very different light - especially with the solace that one can go back (after some time :-) to the origin.

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    1. Dear Britta, tabula rasa, indeed! But if Mr. P wants, he's fortunate that it will only be a few weeks before his head is back to its old self But after a couple of days now, he's rather liking the new 'do :)

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  7. Loved this - you must feel you have a 'new man' in your life, lol!
    Mine is almost totally bald too - first shaved it off when diagnosed with cancer 20 years ago and it started falling out with chemo. Our neighbor was a barber - we picked up a bottle of champagne, all crowded into his potting shed in the back garden, and toasted my Bob and barber Bob, as the electric clippers started up! Barber Bob has moved but he comes back every couple of months with those same clippers to tidy up the little bit of hair that still grows!
    You really are a hoot - love your posts.
    Happy Christmas to all.
    Mary -

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    1. Thank you, dearest Mary. I love your Barber Bob tale, too! Potting sheds must hold a special significance for your Bob now, being where his New Look was born. The Pipistrello Clip Joint didn't offer champagne on this occasion but I shall have to remember it for future tidy ups!

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  8. Back in the day, Yul was THE bald guy. Now every other hot guy has a shaved head. Join the club. That and a closely cropped/haven't shaved for a couple of days beard.
    Beats the combover.

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    1. I agree, dear ToF, Yul was a bald icon. It did take a surprisingly long time before the combover brigade relinquished their dreams of pulling off a luxuriant Omar Sharif 'do.

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  9. Oh gosh. My husband would kill me.

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    1. Well, dear Loree, if Mr. P was already sporting a decent crop of hair, I may well also be communicating to you from beyond the veil! He is completely won over, I'm lucky to report!

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  10. Eva (via email):
    Greetings Pipistrello! This is all too familiar a story as I have done the same. Fortunately a forgiving husband ( not sure I would have been so gracious!).
    Hope your Christmas baking of delectable delights will assuage any momentary feelings of regret.
    Wishing you a happy Yuletide!
    Eva

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    1. Dearest Eva, we are in good company then :) I wonder how many of us are out there, hahah! And no, I would have fainted in a pink fit if the clippers were in the other hand.

      Christmas baking is in the planning stage, as we speak! Mr. P declares the New Him is on a diet so I'm not allowed to go overboard, hahah!

      Happy Yuletide to you, too!

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  11. Pish posh I say.
    I see baldness as just another variety of men-folk. Most look quite stunning this way.
    And it grows back as many have said.

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    1. A good shaped head is rather key to joining the Handsomely Bald Club I think, dear Ur-spo, so it's lucky my variant has one!

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  12. Ah, I am in the Yul & Patrick club (for the top of the head if not for the face - can't have everything). It is so much easier to handle than a straggling half denuded head hedge, although I have been tempted to grow a ponytail just because I could...

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    1. So Mr. P has joined an even more illustrious club, dear Andrew! I'm very pleased to hear you were never tempted by the [shudder] combover brigade, however a Poldark-ponytail really needs a full complement of follicles on top, else it looks suspiciously like a combover in extremis.

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    2. Yes, the ponytail is one of the few temptations that I will manage to resist, perhaps the only one.

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    3. Such restraint, dear Andrew!

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  13. When I was in Vladivostok it was suggested I may like to visit the house where Yul Brynner was born. I didn't feel the need and declined much to the surprise of the hotel receptionist. I had to make amends for my seeming lack of interest by saying of course I had always admired him but really did not wish to make this pilgrimage. I hung around the centre and went to a bar instead and got to know the locals.

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    1. Nicely handled, dear Rachel. I made a quick pilgrimage to Vladivostok just now and can report that the house exterior is handsomely Art Nouveau and there is a fetching statue of the man outside, dressed in his Siamese pantaloons.

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    2. Kind of related, I am always fascinated to look at the railway line over the River Tay where I live in Scotland and realise that thanks to the channel tunnel that is now the direct railway line all the way to Vladivostock. I would quite like to take the Scotland-Vladivostock Express, but not to visit Yul's house.

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    3. I once dreamed of travelling east to west by train as my grandiloquent emigration route to London and got some ways to planning the Trans-Siberian journey and looking at ferries for the last leg to get from Scandinavia across the UK. But then the wheels fell off when I both ran out of time to get over to the awaiting job and realised I would be travelling through Russian steppes in the dead of winter and there'd be not much to see. There was much fun to be had in the planning, however, and if you do manage it, I'd wager you'd still make a YB pilgrimage for the simple reason that you'd come so far so why not!

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  14. Oooooooops !!! Still, I like that look and if not. it will always grow back ! XXXX

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    1. Haha, yes, dear Jackie, in fact it's growing with wild abandon already! But he has resolved that he has been won over and will be ordering a number 0.5 in future! xx

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