Historic tache!

After work on Monday I stayed behind to have a "quiet pint" with a colleague seeing as it was his last shift. I was then (very easily) persuaded to accompany him to Revs 'Bite night'. Turned into an excellent night, especially when he decided to start buying the bubbly! (Cheers Rob) :)

Anyway, as I was standing at work with a pint waiting for him to finish work, I received an email from my Aunt. She had scanned in a photograph of my dad from when he graduated. I don't think I can say much else about the photo, it really does speak for itself!

Handlebar tache is winning.

Despite the epic brilliance of this photo, I know that I have seen another snap of him with a similar tache. I shall continue to hunt it down!

If anyone has photos of family members with moustaches, I would love to show them to the world! (Get permission first!)

I am also going to make an attempt to photograph myself every day so I can make a video of my mo-grow. Pic one was taken today. (I will obviously need more than 30 or so photos.)

TTFN,

Henry.

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Half'n'half

Good afternoon,

You may remember me mentioning that I sent round an email to family and family friends mentioning my blog and fundraising page. In my post yesterday I published an excellent photo of my dad's cousin. Further to this photo, I also received a story from a relative about my great, great uncle. Great, great Uncle  Fred sported a moustache for most of his life. I am still hunting a photo of him with his moustache, but so far have only found a piccie of him without one.

One year, Fred went on holiday with his family to a canal boat. (You can just imagine him standing at the back of the boat like a boss, with his moustache on display to the world) Anyway, it rained for most of the holiday, and being stuck inside a canal boat in the rain for longer than a few hour sounds SO boring, so understandably the kids got a little bored.

In a massive attempt to liven things up a bit, Fred vanished into his cabin and emerged having shaved half of his moustache! I consider this to be a VERY bold move. I can just see myself being very protective over my mo in November, they're precious things!! I mean, demoting half of your face to baldness just to ask the question "Which side do you prefer?" is bad enough, but to then hear that they preferred the moustached side must have been torture!

Still, despite my confusion at the bold move that he made, I must say I respect the braveness to sport half a moustache. I do not know how long he had half a tache for, but it has certainly made for a great story.

Continuing with the half a tache theme, I needed to shave this morning, so thought I would give a photo to support this post...

Another weeks growth compared to a freshly smooth face!

I must add, that I only had half a smooth face for around 10 minutes, it quickly became a fully smooth face. :) I am not brave (or stupid) enough to strut around MK with that setup.

In other news, my OLD gentleman of a friend has now jetted (hitchhiked) his way off around Europe, but we did have a good time celebrating his 21st with a few beers on Saturday night. Also, I am very excited to move back to Leicester, I can't wait for the inevitable house warming party we will hold and I am itching to do some Physics!

Finally, I think the photos of my dad have surfaced, I am awaiting an email and will show you all as soon as I can (so effectively as soon as I have permission to embarrass!!)

Until next time..

Henry

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Blast from the past

You will have to excuse me for not posting much recently, I have been at work a fair bit, But with an evening off, I thought a quick post was required before I hit the pub. (Happy 21st Anthony!!)

I would like to begin with a big thank you to some recent donations! A few very kind donations of £50 leaves me about a tenner short of making HALF my target!! I am very happy at the generosity people have shown to supporting a worth cause and  helping me raise awareness. One of the recent donations was accompanied by a photo of my Dad's cousin from 1975. He has kindly allowed me to pop it on here. Remember, if you are reading this and you used to have a tache, or know someone who has/ used to have a tache then please let me know, I would be happy to put as many of them up as possible. Let's share the moustaches.

Behold, a marvellous mo...

I wish more people these days grew moustaches, I am currently hunting a photo of my Dad with a handlebar mo. I KNOW ITS OUT THERE...

As mentioned in my Coming Up post a week ago, I said that I had gone for something other than the tropical face paints.

I will let this photo describe itself...

An english gentleman or a pirate on his day off? I HAD to have a moustache though, it was the obvious choice.

Until next time, good day.

The pub calls.

H.

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Ridiculed..

So, after a long bank holiday weekend at work which I am oh so glad to have behind me, and to have the monies coming my way, the time came to have a good ol' catch up with some close family friends; Penny, Roy, Philip and Sam.

After a few well deserved beers and ciders and about 4 tons of meat, conversation turned towards moustaches. It was made clear that expectations were not running so high for my tache growing frenzy in November. Several jokes were made about eyebrows being longer than my mo, and that there was no hope that I am going to get to twirl up the ends. THE CHEEK!

This has given me a new found determination to raise as much money as possible to ensure that i really do end up with a long, bushy and ridiculously impressive tache. Now I do need to keep this fairly realistic of course, I cannot honestly expect the following..

But it would be nice ;)

I think that I am to believe that this Moustache was part of the 2009 world moustache championships. Now, I really dont think I will be able to grow a world class mo within a month or two. BUT, I'll give it a jolly good go.

This leaves me to remind everyone that I am pushing on towards my target, and the sooner I do so, the sooner I can start cultivating! Click here

Good evening everyone, I'm Leicester bound tomorrow.

Henry

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Coming up..

What up?

I have some really good posts lined up for this coming week. I have an excellent story about my Great Great Uncle, which will hopefully be accompanied with some photos. I also have some pics from my shift at work today. Whilst everyone was sporting rather tropical themed face paints in support of our Caribbean day I went for something a little different... I will try and grab the photos off the work camera so I can enlighten you all. After all, a picture is worth 1000 words (and with a little luck, a few laughs).

No important Mo related news to report at the moment. I am however a little closer to my target (thanks everyone) I'M NEARLY HALF WAY THERE!!! As mentioned previously though, as soon I reach that target, I won't shave until December 1st, so please continue to donate.

I will try and get around to posting the above posts by mid-week. Wednesday is most likely.

Have a great bank holiday everyone. Take it easy!

Henry

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Improvements

Evening y'all. 

Just found this piccie saved on my desktop from a few weeks ago. I cannot remember where I found it.

An improvement, I think you will agree.

Really looking forward to growing my Mo. I am fully prepared with my Moustache comb, my moustachey poster, my moustache decals for my laptop etc.

I guess the only thing left to consider is moustache wax?! I shall leave this to much nearer the time, (probably until mid november) because making plans to wax my tache might be a bit ambitious! Here is to hoping. I must look into the pros and cons of moustache waxing! Some cool styles maybe?

The weather improved today and so did my mood. I dont think the mood was helped by purchasing a Quantum Physics book for uni.. Its gonna be a hard read!

Until next time, Mo love!

H

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P.S. If you are reading my blog because of the email I send around, WELCOME TO TACHEVILLE!!

Bad day.

Today is bad.

The weather is bad, my mood is bad, I feel bad and I look even worse than bad. Everything is just bad. On the plus side, I have a cuppa.

Here is the extent of the bad...

BAD.

Good Badday Everybody.

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