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Polly Hudson\u2019s article (Beards may be dirtier than toilets \u2013 but all men should grow one, 3 July) is correct on the whole, except in the assumption that all men can do so. When I was a child, my dad spent a two-week holiday not shaving and ended up with a five o\u2019clock shadow. By coincidence, my uncle grew a bushy forest on his face during the same period. Faced with my uncle\u2019s success, my dad promptly shaved his own attempt off and it was never spoken of again.<\/p>\n
Years later, I was bewildered by my dad\u2019s really quite hostile reaction when I successfully gave facial hair a go for the first time. Then I remembered. My late husband had a beard when we met in 1966, and I only saw him clean-shaven in old photographs. It was a full beard, befitting a geologist who had spent time in the field without a mirror. It was regarded with suspicion by Scottish farmers; one even offered to shear him with his sheep. At the time, beards were associated with artists and revolutionaries. My aunts, on first meeting Jack, summed him up as \u201cvery nice, considering he has a beard\u201d. Polly Hudson writes: \u201cAll men look better with beards and I will die on that hill.\u201d Perhaps Keith Flett\u2019s Beard Liberation Front might consider awarding her honorary life membership. Most, if not all, men have beards. It\u2019s just that the intelligent ones don\u2019t bother to scrape hair from their face every day. A pointless pastime. Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Polly Hudson\u2019s article (Beards may be dirtier than toilets \u2013 but all men should grow one, 3 July) is correct on the whole, except in the assumption that all men can do so. When I was a child, my dad spent a two-week holiday not shaving and ended up with a five o\u2019clock shadow. By<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3573,3574,3575,3572,1915,337,1143,3571],"class_list":{"0":"post-10556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-beard","9":"tag-facial","10":"tag-hair","11":"tag-hairs","12":"tag-lets","13":"tag-life","14":"tag-mens","15":"tag-split"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
David Gray<\/strong>
Birmingham<\/em><\/p>\n
Susan Treagus<\/strong>
Didsbury, Manchester<\/em><\/p>\n
Toby Wood<\/strong>
Peterborough<\/em><\/p>\n
Ronnie Macleod<\/strong>
Aberporth<\/em>, Ceredigion<\/em><\/p>\n