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Chest hair: to baldly go… or not

October 16, 2019 By Ellen

Sean Connery defies description Tom Jones is not unusual… or at least he wasn’t Selleck looks splendid Starsky’s chest great The late George Michael’s hair raising days were yet to come Should men remove the hair from their chests? Arguably what happens inside a chap’s shirt is entirely his own […]

Middle-age: the nightmare no one warned me about

December 1, 2014 By Ellen

My legs were tangled in the sheets – I couldn’t run. And a weight pressed my chest keeping me pinned down. I needed to get out away. But the scream choked off in my throat as slowly the dream cleared and I realised I was trapped by an affectionate nocturnal visit from Boy Three, who was snoring […]

My son is top of the crops again

January 6, 2014 By Ellen

Who, I hear you cry, is that handsome chap? He’s Boy One, just back from a surprising visit to the barber. For months he has hung on to his increasingly bushy barnet with all the enthusiasm of Samson. As far as everyone knew he was very attached to his mop. Here he was a couple […]

Does it matter if David Cameron waxes his chest?

August 24, 2013 By Ellen

Reminded me of the PM after spending a day on the beach in Cornwall (Roboppy via Flickr) David Cameron went to Cornwall on his holibags – good for him, so did we. New pictures showed him bare chested, sunburnt and struggling to get his soggy swimmers off under a beach towel. He’s one of us […]

Banished body hair is the (arm) pits

May 8, 2012 By Ellen

Do you shave, wax or use a nasty, smelly cream? I’ll wager that if you are an adult woman, you are bound to do one of them. And have done hundreds of times since you first reached the shores of puberty. I know some of us are inclined to be somewhat lax in this regard […]