Well, the donations have flooded in in the last week of so. Big thanks go out to Adam & Naomi, Tom & Cathy, Lord Benj, my father-in-law Richard, father-in-law Ken, Paul, Oakers and random surfer Andy Lorenz!
Well, I’ve made it to a year, and the beard has now gone. It’s very strange being beardless, but I’m sure I’ll get used to it soon enough!
I featured in the local Comet this week:
Me in The Comet
The beard has gone! In a shaving team effort at my mate Dan’s just after mid-night on New Years Eve, the beard was shaven.
Here’s the before:
Before - full beard
During:
During - half beard
and after:
After - no beard
It’s amazing that a full year of beard growth fitted into one little bag, but I suppose I am but a boy. I feel much younger now, and am looking forward to blending back into obscurity.
That’s me done for now! Many thanks again to everyone for their support over the last year or so.
Hello Beard Fans, and welcome to this festive edition of the Beardie Weirdie blog.
We’ve reached a milestone this last week, the £500 fund raising target has been met, and exceeded. With huge thanks to Stash, Dan, Ys and John, we’ve done it! That said, it’s not too late to donate
Being Christmas Eve today, I have donned the white war paint and red hat, and visited my friends to drop off some presents:
Santa Beard
Beard of the Week is a bit of a no-brainer this week, and is the one and only Santa Claus, popularised by the Coca Cola company in 1947.
Santa Claus
Next week will be the finale, so be sure to visit for the de-bearding blog!
Hello there, and welcome to this weeks Beardie Blog
Well, as December progresses, the bearded days are numbered.
Big thanks this week to my mother-in-law, Pat, for this weeks generous donation. She commented “Well done Sam for putting up with the beard for so long”. Sam is my long suffering wife. She’s been very supportive this year to her bearded weirdo of a husband. She is looking forward to seeing my face again (for some reason!), and I’m sure that she will be attacking me with the clippers at the strike of midnight on New Years Eve.
Here’s the first festive mugshot of little old me:
11th December 2009
This years “Beard of the Week” was suggested by my good mate Oakers. He also has a blog, which is well worth a click. I always thought Yosemite Sam just had an awesome moustache, but it turns out, he has a full beard too! Every day’s a school day, as they say!
Well, just 5 more weeks to go! 11 months has flown by, and it’s been an interesting journey, so far.
Big thanks to Chris for this weeks donation, and for his continuing support.
Well, I’m pretty sure that the beard growth has pretty much slowed to a stop. I haven’t noticed any changes in the beard for weeks now, and would be surprised if there’s much movement between now and the end of the year. I wonder if I’ve reached terminal length?
3rd December 2009
This weeks “Beard of the Week” has been suggested by a couple of people now, my friend Cathy, and my lovely wife, Sam. It’s very appropriate - Mr Twit. I often fell a bit like Mr Twit - like I need a wash after I’ve eaten.
Hi there Beard Fans, and welcome to this weeks instalment.
Thanks go to Chris for this weeks donation. I think there must be something a bit weird with Just Giving page, I’ve stopped getting emails from them when a donation is made, so apologies if I’ve missed any “thank-you’s”. Feel free to test it for me.
I’ve discovered another plus side of having a beard this weekend. It was my Auntie Ena’s 70th birthday party, which was a Oscars themed party. I decided the easy option, and go black-tie. Luckily my beard pretty much covers the tie, so it didn’t really matter that I can’t tie a bow tie properly! Result!
13th November 2009
This weeks “Beard of the Week” was suggested by my mate Davey from my office, and it the one and only Sting. Here’s the bearded wonder!
Big thanks this week to Oakers from Navan in Ireland for this weeks lovely donation. It’s really easy to part with your hard earned, just click here!
I stumble across this today, it’s more facial hair related than specifically beard related, but I liked it anyway, and thought I’d share it with you - the Moustache Mug! They ought to launch a Beard Mug - they could market it as the Bearded Brew.
1 girl, 6 cups
Speaking of mugs, here’s a photo of mine this week. Taken by my 10 year old daughter, Erin. I was in the midst of knocking up a batch of lovely winter warmer soup. My apron was a gift from my brother-in-law, Adam Marek, he’s a very talented author. Check out his website here.
15th October 2009
This week’s Beard of the Week was suggested by a couple of friends of mine - Chris and Glenda. Seen on Wednesday night against Belarus, is of footballer David Beckham, this week sporting an almost full set! This photo was nabbed of the Telegraph website, and they’re suggesting that it’s the “World’s Worst Beard“.
David Beckham
That’s it for me this week, and don’t forget to DONATE!
Hello there readers, and welcome to this weeks bearded installment.
I’ve been pondering of late how to end the bearded year of mine. I’m planning on shaving on 01/01/2010, maybe at a minute past midnight on New Years Eve, depending on where we are. My current thoughts are that I want to keep the neck beard, and look a bit like this chap:
Neck Beard
Moving on, big thanks to Stash and Chris for this weeks donations. As time goes on, we’re getting closer and closer to reaching the £500 target that I have set.
Here’s an update of my photo. Taken in classy black and white on my camera phone. My phone isn’t up to much, and the colours were properly messed up, so I though grey scale was the way forward this week. This photo was taken by me, this lunch time, in my office in Bedford.
2nd October 2009
Moving along to this weeks “Beard Of The Week”, I have selected America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.
Welcome to a very special edition of the Beardie Blog.
This maybe the first of many, the first of few, or the last of one. What am I talking about? Good question! This weeks blog has been written for me by a guest writer! My good friend Nicko has stepped up to the plate and written the following blog for me. If you’d like to have a go as a guest writer, or have any thing to contribute that’s vaguely beard related (video, picture, random scribblings, etc), just drop me a line.
Hello beard spotters - it’s been another eventful week in the life of a full time beard grower!
On Monday evening I was sitting quietly ready Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley, when there was a knock at the door. It was a strange old man sporting a grotesquely patchy beard and wearing an eye patch. “Are you a pirate?” I asked him.
“No, I’m a travelling beard salesman” he replied. “Can I come in and show you my beards from around the world?”
I told him that I already own a smashing beard and didn’t really have any more room on an already crowded chin, but as he was a fellow beard fancier I invited him in for a cup of tea. “I’ve sailed the fours seas, collecting beards from the seven corners of the world” he explained, taking some fine looking beards from his bag and laying them on the table. “Would you like to buy one?”
I explained again that my collection of beard was full when I noticed something strange about his beards. One of them had a head. “These aren’t beards” I cried “These are roadkill”. I was holding the flattened body of a skunk.
Without warning, this strange man leapt at me, brandishing a set of Remington beard clippers – my most feared adversary! With surprising strength and agility, the old man pinned me to the floor and brandished his deadly weapon at me. “Soon your beard will be mine” he shrieked, obviously overwhelmed with beardlust. I couldn’t let him take my beard – there was a lot of people’s sponsorship money resting on these whiskers and I couldn’t afford to lose a single bristle.
He thrust his shaving tool at my face – but as he swung to the left, I was able to use my well defined chin muscles to steer my beard to the right and he missed my precious facial hair. He launched at the right side of my face but again, my chin was too quick for him as I swung my beard to the left. Finally, he aimed a swipe down the centre of my beard but I parted it with ease down the middle using nothing but the phenomenal powers in my chinny chin chin – he hadn’t shaved a single hair from me. My intensive chin training over the last nine months had served me well.
I managed to overbalance him and knock the beard trimmer from his hands. “Don’t take my beards. Please don’t take my beards” he whimpered in a heap on the floor and he began to cry.
“I told you – I don’t want your beards” I said, towering over him, but I felt sorry for the man. I found an old furball that one of the cats had coughed up and gave it to him and I watched with disgust as he sellotaped it to his face.
“Thank you my impressively bearded friend” he said and I watched him hobble off up the road with his bag of dead animals before returning to finish my book on fly fishing. By J. R. Hartley.
Well, many thanks to Nicko for that excellent piece of writing!
Oh. and here’s what I look like - the beard has either out grown the viewfinder, or the photo was taken on the wonk.
Top of the morning to ya, and welcome to this weeks instalment of the Beardie Weirdie Blog!
Firstly, I’ve reached to 60% mark in the fund-raising stakes. Many thanks to my Mum, Rose, for her unrelenting support.
I was doing some research today for something interesting to say on beards. This is the first thing I found on Google, and it’s brilliant!
Well, once you’ve recovered from that, moving on to this weeks photo my beardie progress. This week, I’ve gone for a profile shot. I don’t have a guitar growing out of my beard, oh no, that’s my daughters guitar, that I like to have a plink about with on occasion.
27th August 2009
This weeks Beard of the Week was inspired by me watching TV on Thursday night. Not that he’s currently sporting a beard, Frankie Boyle did a stint recently as a beardie, and a very nice ginger example it is too.
