Before Daddy Papersurfer invented himself – with (Quite a lot of. Lo,TG Ed) help – nay, even before the Interweave consisted of loads of string and cocoa tins, my mother-in-law bought me a razor for Christmas.
[Not the original razor]
I had been married to her daughter for about ten years or so, and had sported a full beard for the duration.
I wondered if it was a hint.
I asked her.
“Oh, no. I like your beard. I thought the razor might come in handy in a few years time.”
She was a bit like that ……….
(I take exception to that – she was a LOT like that! Lo,TG Ed)
[For a chance to win a £20 HMV voucher [Yes!!!! you heard me – a £20 HMV VOUCHER] pop over to see Dulwich Mum and enter her competition. She has beguiled the Western Union to provide the booty – what lovely people.]
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Why is it that mothers never seem to like beards? Mine also, has this very huge thing about anyone with a beard.
I don’t understand. I’ve always found them to be rather fetching.
ZZ Top could turn me actually …….. to knitting ….. I’d love to get some needles in their growths ….. I know, I’m just a pogonophile ……
Daddy darling!
Thank you for your kind link. I love your clean shaven chin, you are incredibly handsome you know (bats eyelashes). I expect your monster-in-law could do with a razer herself by now!
Good point – I’ll dig her up and have a look ………
You go ahead, Peabrain – she’d have the last laugh.
Mmmmmmm …… thanks for that ……. I think …..
I am speachless… again!
My work is almost done ……. tee hee
Please help me Daddy dear. I want to join your fan club, but I don’t know how (sob). I want to be a DP Member (stomps foot).
All you have to do Mumsy *offers tissue and shoulder* is to drag off the fantastic DP Fan Club wotsit onto your desk top and then insert into your blog sidebar [with my URL safely under it's bushel] ….. speak to the loverly James …. he’s the man for the job …..
Perhaps she was just interested in what you were hiding under the beard – and it was a ’subtle’ way of finding out, or perhaps it was a prize for your razor-sharp wit!!!
I did shave my beard off a few years later and everyone went “UGH!!!” – I now hide the worsererer bits with a goatee …….
Ugh? Surely not….. What were you hiding under it?
I’m not too sure …… nobody wanted to talk about it …… tee hee
my now ex-husband gave me a home electrolysis kit one year for christmas. i thought it sweet…
That was a very plucky gift …… I suppose a blowtorch would have been over the top ….. tee hee
I think that was a very thoughtful present but I would imagine that ‘back in the day’ it was actually a cut-throat type one??? just a thought!!!
I’m not allowed near those ……. not after the incident when I was young with the neighbour’s cat …..
Now that Tiger Woods has fallen from favour with Gillette, I hear there is a vacancy…I reckon that photo of you would fit nicely into their new campaign…
You should be my manager!!! – that’s a brilliant idea. Would you accept 7.5% of my earnings? If so, you owe me about 80 quid ……….
Perhaps she was suggesting you shave your pubes? Or that unsightly hair protruding from your ears and nostrils?
I can’t imagine why she would have wanted me to shave my pubes ……. unless …. *thinks* …… oh, never mind ….. what’s done is done …….