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Date: 02 July 2007 22:58:14
Well - I think I might start wearing my gardening overalls more often. The other day I got wolf-whistled and a shout of "Blondie" from some lads who were driving a lorry on the main road that borders our church site. I wasn't sure whether to be a bit pleased and flattered or offended at the denigration of women as sex symbols. My natural inclination was towards the former - does that make me very shallow?
The trouble was these lads were really quite young (looked about 17 to me) and I reckon that from the distance they were at they couldn't have seen me clearly and as I had my hair tied up in bunches* I may have seemed a lot younger than I really was! I did think that perhaps I should embroider "I'm old enough to be your mother" in large letters on my overalls - but perhaps that would be a step too far.
*If I don't tie my hair up when gardening it keeps falling in my face (I guess you spend a lot of time looking down when gardening). Then I end up pushing it out of my eyes with muddy hands and very rapidly end up looking like an ancient Briton on the war-path!
To further complicate matters, since this episode I decided to experiment with one of those semi-permanent hair dyes. Copper Gold it said on the packet! Well suffice it to say that every time I now see myself in the mirror, my hair does seem rather, well, more ginger than I anticipated. I actually don't dislike it but somehow it really doesn't seem like "me". I didn't realise how much I had invested in identifying myself as blonde! Strangely, though I have had it like this for over a week now, no one at all has commented on it. This either means that a) it's really not as noticably different as I think it is, or b) people have noticed but think it looks terrible so are saying nothing rather than upsetting me! What do you reckon?
Strangely too, I actually quite fancied having red hair when I was young. That's the trouble with reading too many Anne of Green Gables books I guess!
Anyhow it is supposed to wash out in 6 to 8 weeks. It'll probably get to the colour I like in another 3 or 4 then!