Stormy Weather

[Anna]

Lovely sunshine yesterday, two or three torrential downpours in the morning but – the icy wind enough to slice you right through. And then, what a wild and tumultuous evening and night! Plenty of hail but not the forecast sleet/snow. I’d bought some violas and left them outside on the doorstep overnight, but they’ve survived the onslaught.

Today, sunny, few heavy showers, struggling to get to just under 8° but take off about 3° for windchill, Intended to do gardening but heavy hailstorm soon put paid to thoughts of that, it’ll have to wait until Sunday (promised to be better) as I have no wish to get chilled through (I admit I turned the heating back on yesterday evening ……) Haircut today by new hairdresser (mine having moved to Penzance!) called Joseph, very camp and he looks like a woodland sprite/elf/faun in a ballet, all cropped hair and enormous dark bambi eyes with threaded eyebrows!
Good cutter though.

[Nick Armstrong]

threaded eyebrows

What be they, ma'am?

[teamsaint]

They be too Eyebrow for this site, F'sure.

[Nick Armstrong]

They be too Eyebrow for this site, F'sure.

That's rather good, ts

[Anna]

What be they, ma'am?

Caliban, I'm quite shocked that you, with all your metrosexual ways don't know about this trend in male grooming. It's a way to tidy up wayward eyebrows of course without plucking!

[teamsaint]

I did want to ask rumpole if all that talk of flash mobs and popping up had anything to do with his much lover Mac?

As for the eyebrow pun , I'll get me mac........

changeable here today. Cool.

We've had worse.

I'm off to the Opera tonight. (La Traviata, WNO)
Better get ironing ......

[Serial_Apologist]

They be too Eyebrow for this site, F'sure.

Wish I'd copyrighted that pun - too late, dash it!

[Serial_Apologist]

Joseph, very camp

Coat of many colours then, Anna?

[teamsaint]

Wish I'd copyrighted that pun - too late, dash it!

start a new thread.

[Nick Armstrong]

of course

What, you mean, like plaiting them? You'd have to have Denis Healey style highbrows for that, surely?!

[mercia]

are threaded eyebrows anything like knitted eyebrows ?

[Serial_Apologist]

Storm fast approaching as I write: all cloud-to-ground strikes, hitting lightning conductors, I hope! Apparently there was small marble-sized hail over in Peckham earlier today.

[Anna]

What, you mean, like plaiting them? You'd have to have Denis Healey style highbrows for that, surely?!

No, it's an Arabic technique and is done by twisting a piece of thread to pick up and remove hairs in a line. The result can look a tad theatrical as it's so precise (but it is striking on men because usuallly they don't bother much with brow grooming)

Storm fast approaching as I write: all cloud-to-ground strikes, hitting lightning conductors, I hope! Apparently there was small marble-sized hail over in Peckham earlier today.

Sounds fun S_A - it all seems to have cleared up here for the time being.

[amateur51]

Storm fast approaching as I write: all cloud-to-ground strikes, hitting lightning conductors, I hope! Apparently there was small marble-sized hail over in Peckham earlier today.

One distant whack of thunder from the South about ten minutes ago, sky a deep blue/purple

[Serial_Apologist]

No, it's an Arabic technique and is done by twisting a piece of thread to pick up and remove hairs in a line. The result can look a tad theatrical as it's so precise (but it is striking on men because usuallly they don't bother much with brow grooming)

I go over my eyebrows once a month with a No 1 attachment, every time I cut my hair, Anna. Letting them just grow would be unthinkable from an appearance pov.

Sounds fun S_A - it all seems to have cleared up here for the time being.

That was followed by some of the most vigorous convection I have ever seen in real life - cloud build-up actively visible, as if watching speeded up time-lapse, like the link I posted here a couple of days ago of a tropical storm cloud - just amazing!