I'll answer your first question a little later (because I'm a mongrel like that), but as for "Mrs Mick", so far she has always managed to be in the bathroom adding the finishing touches before skipping off to work when I'm taking my brekky shots. It wouldn't seem anymore strange to her than me shaving with a cut-throat anyway. She knows I'm a little strange. I was even telling her I might start dressing in the Steam-Punk style. She said. "Steam what? You just dress however you want, just don't get arrested."
Mick