It's Always Darkest Before You Turn On The Light

My hairstylist, or as I like to call her, 'Escaped mental patient #28 - If spotted do not engage but contact the police immediately', recently gave me a haircut that I can only assume is known in hairdressing circles as 'the bucket head'.  This hairstyle, I am convinced, was popular in the ranks of Oliver Cromwell's army and gave them their now infamous moniker of 'roundheads'.  In fact, I'm prepared to bet that if Cromwell was alive today he'd be extremely old. But back to me.  A small child once commented to me "I like you because your hair looks like a mushroom".  I think that just about says it all.  My daughter always asks me (through the bathroom door as I'm in there, post haircut, crying into the toilet and wondering if I might get away with wrapping the shower curtain around my head and pretending to be a Muslim) "Why do you keep going back to the same hair stylist?"  And I reply that I don't know.  That it's p...