Photo-a-Day  (Thursday, 10th August, 2023)

It's got quite a short back and sides....

Not a lot on top either..........

Do they have Special Pensioners' Rates for old people?

Barber! Will you get your elbow out of my ear hole! And mind where you poke them scissors, you nearly had my eye out then! And another thing, I would like to leave with both ears still attached this time if that’s all right with you!

Dtease Sir , please be patient , I'm doing my best , perhaps you would prefer if one of my colleagues took over so l may attend to these other gentlemen .

Would sir like a dressing? Brylcreem or chip fat?

Or something for the weekend perhaps.?

You’d best shurrup
ot‘chair might disappear under thee. I do a roaring trade in steak pies me.

Ho no! He’s not the famous “Barber of Sheville” is he?
Does the Parish Council know he is at large again?
They’ll have to re-form the “Parish Anti- Barber Militia”. They’ve never been at full strength since Captain Mick had his crew cut.

I would like to apologise to everyone for that feeble joke, I can hear the groans from here.
I think I’ll go and lie down for a bit.

So that's how you got your head shaved. You were told he'd just got back from Australia shearing sheep.

Veronica, or is it Mrs Miggins, if customers run short for the steak pies, there's an undertakers across the road

DTease I don't think it's the barber of Sheville, because Acton street is in Sweeneyly. Sorry I mean Swinley.

Underneath that miniature building there’s a dungeon that stretches all along the street, comprising a Bakery ( just pies) and a bike repair shop, also a mobility scooter shop, selling flags and poles and whistles. That window is bricked up to keep nosy parkers out. It’s another branch of the Parish Hall. They didn’t want it in Shevvy… One man mends bikes, I think you’ll know who that is. The other one keeps ducks and deals in eggs. As usual Big Sheila has a finger in the pie metaphorically speaking…They are hoping to branch out to some place in the Southern Hemisphere. Haircuts are half price for pensioners because they don’t have much hair.

There's probably more Barbers today than pubs....shocking isn't it.

Google Earth must be bang upto date on this street as the same white car and bicycle are on street view.

Brilliant Veronica. You've great imagination. Our village barber used to whistle tunelessly whilst cutting our hair, causing a cold drought round the neck. All the children - boys and girls - had the same haircut, but we girls had a 'grip' and a side parting!

Blame Dtease Pat he sets me off ;o))
It’s only a bit of fun…
Cyril there’s a tunnel underneath the road leading to you know where it’s very convenient..especially when I pull that switch…

DTease, are you writing this years Panto scripts by chance? if so, then it seems good.
Veronica, I can well believe those strange goings on in that house with the obscure glass panels and blinds on the windows, and as Spenian says the same car and bike are on the Google street maps, and in front of the car there's umpteen bins lined up behind the side wall, even two flats couldn't have use for that many bins - full of old worn out bike and body parts perhaps?

An imaginary conversation overheard in Pat McCs barbers.
"Dad, dad, I want a grip and a side parting dad, all the other girls have a grip and a side parting dad". "0K,OK, but I think the fact that you are going to school in a skirt and a trainer bra tells the other kids where you stand son"