Potentially emotionally distressing day today, and a long and probably boring story. Just over 19 years ago I thought I'd treat myself to a posh haircut at the hairdresser beneath our flat in Leith. The lovely David did a good job, so I kept going back. The salon closed and I followed him across... - ThreadSky

urbaneprofessor.bsky.social • 77 days ago

Potentially emotionally distressing day today, and a long and probably boring story. Just over 19 years ago I thought I'd treat myself to a posh haircut at the hairdresser beneath our flat in Leith. The lovely David did a good job, so I kept going back. The salon closed and I followed him across...

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urbaneprofessor.bsky.social•77 days ago

...a quite staggering number of salons over Leith. And then in 2017 he decided to emigrate to Australia (they have a permanent hairdresser shortage, it seems). The last do he did was my wedding do. He passed me onto Linda, who had also followed him around. Turns out David had been Linda's...

urbaneprofessor.bsky.social•77 days ago

... apprentice. Linda was great too. Her speciality at the start of her career was the Farah Fawcett flick. Anyhoo, she retired to Greece back in November so I've had to find a new hairdresser 😱 let's see if this one lasts eight years 😬

cash4questions.bsky.social•77 days ago

Loss of regular hair wrangler is an underappreciated trauma.

urbaneprofessor.bsky.social•77 days ago

I think I've survived the trauma

craigwalmsley.bsky.social•76 days ago

I’m 14 years straight with my current man - Taiki at Eton Crop in Bloomsbury - accept no substitute!

craigwalmsley.bsky.social•76 days ago

My mistake - 16 years!

jameschalmers.bsky.social•77 days ago

I remember reading about someone who worked helping people emigrate to Australia and had conversations along the lines of “yes, Mr Smith, of course this is a wonderful track record in business but I’m afraid it won’t get you many points. But it says here your wife did a college hairdressing course?”

urbaneprofessor.bsky.social•77 days ago

I gather hairdressers are on our skills shortage list. Probably because they're all moving to Australia

almagroschool.bsky.social•77 days ago

come to Barcelona for your 7 EUR haircut, possibly with Koran verses gently playing in the background. Seems to a favourite business option for Pakistani immigrants

roe-deer2024.bsky.social•77 days ago

Time to buy clippers; comes to us all eventually. Bonus if you have a mother still around to tell you you 'look like something out of Belsen.'

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