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Movember: an excellent excuse to fashion preposterous facial hair. Capture your progress in a series of hilarious photographs, sketches and quotations; purchase a miniature comb and make it glisten with waxes and other such concoctions to make your Movember ‘tache time truly memorable.

Tachetastic

Men everywhere are getting into in an increasingly popular men’s health awareness month. Each November chaps worldwide get involved with a sponsorship scheme to “change the face of men’s health”. The charity focuses on cancers: a shockingly high percentage of men do not even consider checking their nether regions for irregularities, which every year results in unnecessarily late diagnoses of testicular and prostate cancers.  By raising awareness and money, Movember can address its three core areas: Awareness & Education, Survivorship, and Research. In doing this men can be prepared and educated on what to look for, how to cope with diagnoses and feel supported during and ensuing treatment. The research involved is also crucial: more effective means of diagnosing, and developing treatments are essential for survivorship.

“Each Mo Bro must conduct himself like a true gentleman” and there are strict rules as to what constitutes acceptable Movember sprouting: neither goatees nor beards are permitted and no man must begin the month with a bristle showing. If you’re not involved this year, why not draw up some sketches for next year’s beauty? For now, why not sponsor one of the 1000s of men growing something splendid right now?

Fabutache

Remember remember...

...that, in England, once a year, every year, we will all head to the nearest boggy field donning our full collection of gloves, hats, scarves, walking socks and thermals and stand, neck craned, in the bitter cold, admiring coloured gunpowder for 20 minutes. All in the name of that rather daring chap who once tried to explode our monarch.

How patriotic :)