The time has come....

... said the Walrus, to talk of many things... oops, no, sorry... that's from Alice in Wonderland.....

try again...

... to admit defeat on a serious issue .........

This morning I found a grey hair...... not an unusual thing I've been going grey since I was about 21.... and having (naturally) boring mid brown hair it is kind of noticeable....... My sister teases me unmercifully about it... or at least she did until about 4 years ago when she started to go grey (and as her hair is darker than mine it's more noticeable).... We both dye our hair, but for some reason my grey hair round my temples just will not dye, and my hair grows so fast I have to do the roots every 4 weeks or so....

Anyway, today, the little grey hair I noticed wasn't on my head......

So this morning, I stumbled through my usual getting ready for work routine after bugger all sleep (well about 3 hours out of a potential 8), did the dog sorting, walking, feeding etc... followed by the very grounding job of cleaning the cat's litter tray and satisfying their noisy demands for sustenance before falling blindly into the shower (no not really, well the blindly bit yes, as I don't wear glasses in the shower, but there was no falling involved this morning... though there was spider removal)... in the height of my disorganisation (put in no doubt by the fact I left my cutlery at home.... cous cous salad is difficult to eat by hand...) I was drying my socks with the hairdryer about the time I should have been leaving for work (the rest of my clothes were stills lightly damp but I could live with that - damp socks I cannot deal with)... so I didn't look in a mirror until I got in the car.......... and there it was......

Mine's a little shorter than this
but I guess will be this colour
in a year or so...

lurking in the middle of my right eyebrow...

a very long, very white, very bloody obvious hair........... eep!!

Suffice to say it didn't last long as I sat at the traffic lights and managed to pluck the damn thing out.

But, if I am going to have miscellaneous white/grey hairs appearing other than on my head (and yes, I am off for a bath in a bit to hunt and make sure there are no more lurking where they shouldn't be)... then I think it is time to admit defeat ......... and time give up on the hair dying and grow old disgracefully........

(that said I've been net searching and found some very beautiful older women with grey hair *grins*)