Andrew Kay boldly asserts he doesn’t care about losing his hair…

Two thousand and twelve; how much better it looks in words than in simple arabic numerals. It has a certain ring to it, the sense of time marching on. Which is more than I can say for my hairline which is fast receding.

Funnily enough I seldom think about going bald. I mean I know that it’s happening, but it doesn’t really bother me. If I were bothered by that kind of thing then surely I would have started dying my hair like a certain Liverpool pop god rather than leaving it snowy white as I have.

No, baldness, I can take it or… well I can take it. It only cropped up because over a rather good negroni at Drakes Hotel the other evening, a dear friend commented on how nicely my hairline was receding. It was meant as a compliment of course and taken as one, but it was an interesting observation and one that I had neither heard before or considered.

“As diminishing tonsorial responsibility has arrived I do pay less attention to what is happening up top”

That night, whilst brushing my teeth I took a look, not that there is much to look at. I suppose as diminishing tonsorial responsibility has arrived I do pay less attention to what is happening up top. And to be honest, being rather tall, very few people get to look down on my balding pate anyway.

On the same matter I have noticed an ad on TV for a German caffeine shampoo that apparently has balding men rushing to chemists all over the globe. Should I give it a go? Maybe I should try to restore my once luxurious head of curls. Then again, I know that look and it’s not one that I can say I envy.

Personally I couldn’t give a tinker’s cuss. Like so many things in life, balding is just nature taking its course. And on a positive note, if I do lose the lot then maybe I will at last be able to wear hats, because I promise you, with a thatch like mine, hats either pop off under the pressure of my springy curls or are too darned hot!

Thanks though to the lovely friend who pointed out how nice my receding hairline is, as it ebbs I will forever think of you.