Thread: Sun May 27th - June 02nd

Tuesday
Brush: Vie-Long Horse
Soap/Creme: Proraso Sandalwood
Razor: Merkur Futur
Blade: Blue Gillette
Pre: Hot towel
Post: Prep
Hair Groom: Jeris
Result: CCS

Originally Posted by lu20vt

Mikes's Orange, Cedarwood, & Black Pepper // Vintage Hoffritz Barber King 6/8 // Simpson T3 Manchurian Badger // Thayers // Aqua Velva [/b]

Spectacular picture

Originally Posted by Str8Shooter

Carl, you and your family have been in my prayers with Lil Jacky boy...

Your a gentleman mate, thankyou.

Grant

Hot shower
Robert Becker scuttle
C.O. Bigelo shave creme
HMC Cutlery straight razor
Homemade bay rum
Hoyts cologne

Originally Posted by baldy

Your a gentleman mate, thankyou.

Grant

SHHHHHHH don't tell anyone Grant!

Paul

Good morning!

Prep: hot towel + glycerin soap
Brush: Restored Strong Set silvertip badger
Shaving soap: Klar's Kabinett
Razor: 7/8" Geo Wostenholm & Sons Pipe wedge
AS: Ach Brito Lavanda Eau de Cologne

Wednesday

I was saddened today to hear of events in Syria. Saddened is possibly not the right word. In fact it isn’t, let’s call a spade a bloody f’n spade; I was angered. I was enraged. I was sickened. I took all that raging anger, rolled it in to a little, tiny, seething black ball inside myself and used it to fuel my workout when I got home. I mean, I hate to judge, really I do, but come on! Leave the kids alone! There’s NO excuse, none, none, NONE!

I want to live in a world we all thought existed when we were little kids, before life screwed us over and turned us all in to sarcastic self-centred individuals, escaping our dismay at the world by consoling ourselves with i-toys. No wonder the world has spawned Goths and Emos. I’d be one too if I was 16; I’d even wear black nail polish just to communicate my hate.

Anyway, to the shave. A really nice shave and the massive nick in my strop that I haven’t sanded out yet didn’t really seem to affect the razor at all. O Melhor was the cream and Floïd the after shave.

PS, sorry for the rant about world events but I just had to say it…I promise I’ll behave in the future…and please forgive the liberty I've taken at posting a poem...


Razor: | Klas Törnblom | Cream: | O Melhor | After Shave: | Floïd



CHARD WHITLOW
by Henry Reed
(Mr. Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript)

As we get older we do not get any younger.
Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five,
And this time last year I was fifty-four,
And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.
And I cannot say I should like (to speak for myself)
To see my time over again— if you can call it time:
Fidgeting uneasily under a draughty stair,
Or counting sleepless nights in the crowded Tube.

There are certain precautions— though none of them very reliable—
Against the blast from bombs and the flying splinter,
But not against the blast from heaven, vento dei venti,
The wind within a wind unable to speak for wind;
And the frigid burnings of purgatory will not be touched
By any emollient.
I think you will find this put,
Better than I could ever hope to express it,
In the words of Kharma: "It is, we believe,
Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump
Will extinguish hell."
Oh, listeners,
And you especially who have turned off the wireless,
And sit in Stoke or Basingstoke listening appreciatively to the silence,
(Which is also the silence of hell) pray not for your selves but your souls.
And pray for me also under the draughty stair.
As we get older we do not get any younger.

Originally Posted by JoeBass

Hot shower
Robert Becker scuttle
C.O. Bigelo shave creme
HMC Cutlery straight razor
Homemade bay rum
Hoyts cologne

Oh my goodness. I thought that was a bong for a second there...

Originally Posted by moonbeam

...Going to take a break for a week with the family.Will be going to the Elephant Sanctuary somewhere in central Malaya then the Turtle Sanctuary in the East Coast and finally visiting my In-Laws somewhere north of the East Coast...

Be safe, my friend, go well.

Originally Posted by Str8Shooter

...Carl, you and your family have been in my prayers with Lil Jacky boy...

Thank you. Grant said it all...

Prep: Hot shower
Brush: Polo 8 by Simpson
Razor: De Pew
Soap: Nannys Ice and a slice (+small click of Proraso)
AS: Blue Floid
Strops: Neil Miller
Result: Very, very clean
Scuttle and brush in the fridge for 20 minutes and I got a monkey of my back today - I finally had a go at a De Pew It was nice, but small and I think it needs to get sharper (I did a couple of laps on some CBN, but it's not enough, I think).


... and some:

Toyo Special | AdP | Torolf | AdP | Profumum Victrix

This will probably be my last SOTD for the next couple of weeks because we leave tomorrow morning for Japan to visit the in-laws. I'll check in when I can, just to make sure Carl and the others are behaving. In the meantime, enjoy your little slice of ritualistic heaven each day!