![]() He didn’t fancy the rest of the chips after that! Sorry to hear about your wildlife-related injuries! We live close to a seaside town, and we’re used to seagulls snatching our ice creams and sandwiches – once, we were sitting by the harbour when one of these pesky birds landed in the middle of the chips my husband was in the process of eating. Enjoy your trip on Monday – fortunately the temperatures are now a bit more bearable. LEAD SINGER FROM FLOCK OF SEAGULLS HAIR FULLAs I said, life is full of ups and downs, yin and yang, but we have to make the most of the good stuff when we can. I actually had a very stressful week recently concerning my mum but didn’t want to write about that here so concentrated on the nice things I’d done this week instead. I was always envious of his knees – he could constantly crouch down then quickly leap up again, seemingly effortlessly. Yes, I think you have mentioned seeing Adam Ant before – back when he was less ‘pop-chart-y’ and a bit edgier. Mike Score, being an ex-hairdresser, obviously knew all the tricks. I used the heavy duty product on my hair but it being so soft and fine, it was tough going getting any height or volume at all. Ah, egg white, didn’t know about that one – the guys with spikey hair used to ask for a bowl of sugar water in the bar if their hair had got caught in the rain and gone flat. Many of them not the kind of women who would have gone down that route first time around. You are right of course, many older women now have the very short hair with multi-coloured spikes. Not seeing as many of the tribes differentiated by hairstyles nowadays. Young women nowadays all seem to have long straight hair with a parting. Might treat myself to a Cherry Garcia too now. Likewise I’ve a day out in London with a couple of friends on Monday, to visit ‘Superbloom’ at the Tower, then a short cruise down the Thames (it will bring back memories of our little trip on the riverbus), so that should be a pleasurable diversion from the normal daily regime. LEAD SINGER FROM FLOCK OF SEAGULLS HAIR WINDOWSMind you, a vulture would be more suitable, I might have to start saying that instead….Īnyway, your break in routine sounds really good and just what you deserve and yes, definitely therapeutic (except in heatwave conditions… two days in the house with the windows and curtains closed is very bizarre). ![]() I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before but I was lucky enough to see Adam & The Ants in their earlier incarnation in May 1979 in our little local club, very much a darker, arty band back then – but he always did look rather gorgeous, with or without the hair! And thanks for the snippet about the coot saying, I’d never given it much thought. ![]() ![]() Not fair! (Although, in a way, it would have missed the point if it hadn’t provoked a response, of course, And what a waste of eggwhite!) Every day’s a school day!īoth bands are so evocative of that era, and the days of our youth when exotic hair was far more abundant (including my own!) Oh, but I miss seeing youth tribes and glorious sculptural ‘dos – instead there are just loads of women of a certain age with the short spikes and colours in their barnets that got me into so much trouble in my teens. It does have feathers on his head, but it’s the way it looks from a distance that gives us the idiom. A coot is a water bird which has a marking on its head that gives it an appearance of being bald. ![]() I was curious, so just wanted to pass this snippet on. (Song by Mike Score/Ali Score/Frank Maudsley/Paul Reynolds) Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) Lyrics Inspiration for an ice-cream flavour – Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, never bald as a coot ![]()
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