I am hairdresser in residence to the Uphilldowndale household, a lot of this has to do, not with my skills with a pair of clippers but the fact that my men folk are unwilling to spend time traveling to, or waiting for, a barber or a hairdresser.
(Model, Mr Grasshead, styling and photography by Joe Uhdd aged 11, earring, models own)
Much to the delight of Mr Uhdd this also saves us a wad of money (but no one is coming near my tresses, thank you very much, other than a professional, somehow a number 3 cut isn’t very flattering on a girl of my age, Sigourney Weaver might be able to get away with it, I cant.)
It’s not a task I enjoy, and its just as well the guys are happy with a short back and sides, because I can’t do anything else, my tools are not the most sophisticated, (although I have got new scissors) in fact, between you and me the clippers are in fact dog clippers.
Not that they have ever been used in anger, on a dog; we bought them for our our old dog (RIP), however with his sore arthritic hips he was not going to let me anywhere near him, whilst wielding a pair of clippers, he would rather have matted fur than that, thank you very much. So he hid under the table and refused to come out and the clippers went back in the box. But his fur was such a mess that we did have to call on the help of the professionals, it was a bit of a blow for a ruffty tuffty working dog, to have go to the poodle parlour, but there you go, not sure the cut he got looked like ‘what he wanted’ though, bless him, it’s not very easy maintaining your dignity, when you are old.
When you say ‘working dog’ do you mean a chimney sweep? ;-D
It made him very good at dusting the coffee table
SOH does his own hair, had to have it cut when working for the prison service and I just get to tidy up the stray bits for him afterwards. He hasn’t offered to cut mine (thankfully) or I would be like Demi Moore in GI Jane lol
Sage
ps – belated happy birthday to you
I had to chuckle reading this! As for Mr Grasshead and the dog’s tail…!
Well for years i cut my sons hair and i got pretty good at blending it in and doing trendy cuts. Haircuts have become expensive nowadays £ 9.20 for mine in the week.
i clipped my dogs feathers last night and he hates it, just wont sit still and fudges about. After a while i just give up.
dog clippers , classic haha
Poor old doggy. I hope you covered the mirrors so he didn’t see himself.
Him Indoors got clippers and does his own hair. Some of his pals now know that so come to the house and he does theirs too. If the church ever dismisses him as minister he could set up as a barber I suppose.
I am so glad that I have found your both amusingly and informative blog. Always a good story to read or nice pictures to see.
Does Joe know Mr Grasshead is gay?
That picture of your dog reminds me of when one of our cats got bitten on the tail. The vet shaved his tail and he had a pom-pom on the end just like that. You could tell he was totally humiliated by the whole thing.
Great picture of the rainbow.
I do my own hair and the boys’ with clippers (5mm comb). It generally works well although I did have the clippers fail halfway through doing my hair once. I had a 5mm cut on one side of my head and almost 20mm of shagginess on the other. I had to go out looking like that to buy a new pair of clippers…
I had the blade guard fall off, whilst cutting Mr Uhdd hair, it was a bit of a close shave up the back, for a day or so at least
I know that dog – poor thing. Here looks nothing whatever like a badger. Rest in peace.