Today's the day!

So this is it! Shave Day has arrived. So far I have raised over £250 for Macmillan Cancer Support which doesn't seem bad in a week, but I'm hoping some people are holding back to spend their money until the deed is done and they've seen photographic evidence.

Standing on the station waiting for my train this morning l was looking at people's hair and paying special attention to those  with shaved heads - all men. There was a bit of me that wanted to bounce up to them and ask "What setting were the clippers on for that?" Perhaps a bit much. Not everyone wants to be accosted on a station platform by a middle aged woman enquiring about their grooming habits.

I keep coming back to the fact that it's a very different thing for a woman to shave her head. Sinead O'Connor and Annie Lennox have come up in my conversations this week (as have radical feminists and Buddhist nuns) but the reality remains that for most women having no hair is about illness - usually cancer. Which is, after all, the main  reason I'm doing this - to raise money for an organisation that supports people with cancer, and those caring for them.

I have my personal reasons too - a desire to see what I will look like, and what my natural hair colour is now, and, no doubt, to create a bit of a stir!

Either way - today's the day. So please, never mind my personal reasons, dig deep for the  good cause that will benefit from my exhibitionism, and sponsor me!