Movember 2010
Movember - Since Way Back
Super Mo unveiled!

ONCE AGAIN it's that time when the whole world goes moustache-crazy and everyone is growing a 'Mo' to support Movember and The Prostate Cancer Charity.

It's Friday night in Shoreditch, London and a small band of moustache aficionados have gathered at Murdocks Barbershop to 'shave into' Movember. Aspiring 'Mo Bros' are there to have any offending fuzz removed in anticipation of November 1st. One very brave, or possibly foolhardy young lady has come with the intention of having her eyebrows removed, and our Potty President is eagerly expected and has promised something special! Nothing less than a whole new alter-ego...

Taryn's gamble

As we await Rod's arrival and a few complementary beverages are consumed, I have time to tell a cautionary tale. Those of you that regard the 'interweb' as a safe and benign place please take note. Taryn Blackwood the subject of our tale, had tweeted and twittered (nothing to do with birds apparently) earlier in the week and made the rather foolhardy suggestion that if she was promised the sum of forty pounds for the Movember coffers, she would have her eyebrows removed.

Well, of course it was bound to end in tears, and so when the message was picked up by the Movember 'crew' and they offered to match her forty pounds with forty of their own, there was no going back. Bless her cotton socks, Taryn did look mighty apprehensive as she was ushered to the Barber's Chair.

Taryn is brow-beaten into the Barber's Chair
Taryn is brow-beaten into the Barber's Chair

She closed her eyes, screwed her courage to the sticking point and off came the aforementioned facial hair. The forty pounds has, I understand, now increased to a hundred and forty and is still growing. Foolhardy but commendable.

Taryn shows off her Mo-brows; Steve gets the point.
Taryn shows off her Mo-brows; Steve gets the point.

Rod 'Super Mo' Littlewood unveiled...

Back to Mr. Littlewood. He did finally make his entrance after what was apparently a tortuous car journey and headed straight for the gents - a few too many cups of coffee we innocently thought. However a strange noise began to eminate from the gentleman's convenience, a bit like the sound of a small elephant in a tumble drier, seconds later the door burst open and out strode Super Mo!

SuperMo delivers the fatal blow to the Great White Shark
SuperMo delivers the fatal blow to the Great White Shark

If you've ever imagined Rod dressed in a one-piece polyester suit (blue), adorned with moustaches, and wearing his underpants outside his clothes then you'd have a pretty accurate idea of the sight that greeted us. Not content with this fashion disaster the 'tached crusader sat down in the barber's chair and asked for "a short back and sides with a large waxed moustache at the back please".

Blow in Rod's ear and he'll follow you anywhere
Blow in Rod's ear and he'll follow you anywhere

Well he got what he asked for and proudly made his way home dressed as a demented 'Del Boy' and with his two 'taches - some people will do anything to support that wonderful cause that is Movember!

Movember

 Steve Parsons

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Event Photography Copyright © 2010 Steve Parsons

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