TRIM AND GO AT FRINGE FESTIVAL...
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Happy Monday – and most of Tuesday – in the local park didn’t take as many drugs as the 90s band of the same name, but it was certainly off its face.
The prime minister’s “great summer of sport” on our green got off to a good start with hammered students chucking empties to each other and blowing great billows of vape smoke.
I’m just pleased to see their hand-to-eye coordination and lung capacity haven’t been affected by Covid.
Drinking Olympics – here they come! Actually it’s been brilliant to sit on Bozza’s favourite smelly bench in the sunshine and listen to all the happy chatter of people hanging out together. And the dog’s delighted that the teenagers are back with a full range of Pringles and their funny-smelling cigarettes.
I’d have joined them all on their picnic blankets (coats) if I didn’t have deadlines and been on the wagon, so I’ll have to wait a few more weeks for the pub gardens to get back on the Lady Petrol.
In the meantime, I’m enjoying myself vicariously by booking slots in pubs and restaurants with outside seating in two weeks’ time. But with only an hour and a half allowed at each venue, going for a quiet drink to catch up with a mate keeps turning into a pub crawl.
I’ve also renewed my online dating app, which can only mean one thing – goodbye Sensible Sober Mum and Hello Sailors! Or at least greying, divorced father-of-two from Reading…
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Welcome to Lockdown Locks, our new Covid-compliant takeaway hair salon. No need to let your roots and fringe go rogue during lockdown – we can help!
Observe our new over-door canopy to protect you from the worst of the weather during your appointment. After all, you are in Scotland where we can have snow and ice until June some years. We suggest you keep your coat on – gloves too – and I hope you remembered to bring a blanket to put around your legs.
To stop you from blocking the pavement with a chair, you will be provided with a sanitised shooting stick to balance on, and don’t worry – the pavement has been gritted for your safety.
I will be able to do your colour and cut from the doorway, in line with current
While lucky readers in Wales can now visit a salon, English and Scottish hairdressers are still closed. Poet and writer Lynda Mackenzie from Clackmannan, Scotland, imagines a takeaway salon called Lockdown Locks opening for business from its doorway – where you can have any style you want so long as it’s frozen spikes! regulations for other takeaway outlets, only requiring you to fully rotate for fringe trimming. The nearby bus shelter has been sanitised and is available for your use while your colour is developing. Rinsing and shampooing protocol has proved more problematic but by utilising a pressure washer with an extra-long hose and employing a zimmer frame to allow you to lean back in safety, we can manage fairly well. This system explains why we suggested you should also bring a bath towel to deal with any inadvertent spillage. Drying and styling is mostly straightforward provided the temperature stays above freezing – otherwise may I just say the spiky look is very ‘in’ at present! We hope you enjoy your visit to Lockdown Locks and emerge cut, coloured and styled to your satisfaction. Do come again.
It’s not often you can say a copy is better than Da Vinci’s original masterpiece, but I think schoolgirl Ellie Murphy has improved on the Mona’s aloof expression.
Her dad, Brian Murphy, writes: “My 10-year-old daughter Ellie loves art and music. She gave the old Mona Lisa a bash during this recent lockdown. Not a bad attempt, I thought.”
Ellie attends Saint Gregory’s school in Northampton where she loves to learn about the Tudor period, and has painted Ann Boleyn many times. Her proud dad adds: “Ellie also loves musicals and is learning the double bass and ukulele.”
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