Well it's been a while since I have used the forum (to my eternal shame!) but I met with Brian (Signature Soaps) on Saturday at our local market and procured a new "Novus Spice" shaving soap. Now as my other half ably pointed out "you've got loads of soaps why on earth do you need another one" but she misses 2 key points -
1) the scent is just lovely - cinnamon and citrus - it really is evocative of the original Old Spice, and
2) the ideal number of soaps is N+1 where N is the number you already own (pinched from the cycling community where it is applied to bikes)
Anyway just used the soap this morning and it is just lovely - all the usual Signature comfort and feel with that lovely scent - and I'm not even usually that keen on cinnamon! (Too much time in the US where they add it to eveerything).
And I will be shaving more now - having been been semi-retired for a while I have only been shaving every 7-10 days mainly using either the Tedalus shavette or the Timeless .95OC. Last time out I took a chunk out of myself with the Tedalus - probably a combination of lack of attention and a blade I should have replaced earlier.
So this morning it was the Timeless 0.95 OC - which is an amazing razor - really close but will mow down a weeks worth with no hint of clogging.
Growing a bit of stubble has been OK as I've been keeping my hair short but I have started to grow my hair and -
- short hair and stubble looks OK
- longer hair and clean shaven looks OK
- longer hair and stubble looks like I've given up !!
Not trying to offend anyone here as we're all different and anyway it's a pretty good excuse to start shaving more frequently again - and set up a proper rotation of razors blades and soaps - so see you all around
Very best to this wonderful community
Paul
PS tried to upload a photo from new iPhone but it';s too big and so far my tech skills are too limited to "shrink" the image. D'oh
PPS - photo below - got to love this place - many thanks Tony
