Vive Le Pigtail

The only connection I have to a Chinaman is the fact that my Grandfather who was in the Merchant Navy was present during the Boxer Uprising in China in 1900
So why you might ask have I taken to affecting a pigtail. My childhood pigtails were docked when I felt I had outgrown them at the age of 12, but they say in age you regress to childhood so a pigtail is as far as I am prepared to go willingly into that stage.

The truth is that I got tired of the short back and sides hair style so favoured by His Lordship and in a spirit of defiance, I decided to grow my hair to see what would happen. Unfortunately it grows so slowly that after almost 3 years, this is the best I can manage to date. I doubt very much whether I will live long enough for me to sit on it.
As for two pigtails- age has decreed there not be enough hair and besides, that really would be a descent into childhood.

Needless to say HL is not a fan of the new style, but then neither is he a fan of dangly earrings or tattoos, so I try to ignore the comments. It is not as if he asked me if I am a fan of moustaches or beards. At least I have him trained not to say anything derogatory about the hair, but he still always has to comment on the dangly earrings.

There's a devil in me that considers the pleasure I would get in seeing the look on his face were I to get a tattoo. Fortunately the pain involved has put me off going down that road, which brings me back in a full circle to my Grandfather who had his two arms filled with tattoos which I remember as baskets of fruit and flowers. He was very embarrassed, as an upright elder citizen, of the impulsive folly of his seafaring days.