[taddy]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

No I was not having a laugh Taddy. Nor do I think I was out of order. I asked him to shave and look tidy…that he didn’t, meant that he did not care what I thought…or that is how it seemed to me.

If I can spend more than three hours (each way)travelling by public transport to get to Blackpool, then he can spend five minutes shaving his face. There was nothing wrong with his arms.
This was while he was waiting for his surgery…so he had had nothing done..had nothing to do either.
He knows that I do not like him looking like Worzel Gummidge and he looked like a tramp.

Taddy if you have been bearded for all of your married life then I take it that Hazel married you while you were bearded.

My feller was clean shaven when we met…had he not been I would not have gone out with him. That is just how it is.
I did not consider it to be blackmail..I considered it to be a trade off.
If he shaved and looked clean and tidy, then I would happily visit him. That is just how it is.

No Marge, I did not have a hairy beard or mustache when I first met Hazel as I was only 16 and Hazel was 14, the beard was a bet, (after we were married) when I was twenty years old, between me and four of my mates, a ten shilling wager as to who was the last to have a shave, I came second, and had to pay the winner, who is still my best mate and still has a beard as I have and was the best man at my wedding, need I say more.