Hair. It's a funny old thing.

So, if you haven't seen me recently, you might not realise that my hair colour has changed. I now have quite excitingly red hair.

This poses a problem for doing the last FFM gig we have lined up, as at virtually no point in her career was Stevie Nicks a redhead (there is an argument for it based on the cover of her "TimeSpace" compilation album, but it could just be colour touch-up). However, I really needed to be a redhead for sanity's sake for a while.

What's to be done? Particularly if I want to earn a bit of dosh doing backing track work (and a large number of the backing tracks I own are of La Nicks...), I really need to be a blonde.

So, I've done what I always swore I'd never do, and have bought... a wig.

I've railed in the past about tribute bands and their excessive use of bad wigs, but this situation just called for it. I've bought a rather good wig, actually, which there didn't used to be many of on Ebay. However, the market seems to have expanded recently, and there are some really good wigs available.

So, here I am, sitting in a Stevie wig.

It looks surprisingly good!

I haz a twopay!

I haz twopay!

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My new wig. Not a very flattering shot, though.It looks better from further up, but I'm not very good at this mirror photo thing.

Me with red hair

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Just so as you don't faint in shock when you see me next, this is what I look like with red hair now.

What's It All About

I had a comment on the In-Debt Net ages ago saying that the (anonymous) poster didn't believe that I didn't want to be rich, and that all women married for money (if it were true, there would be a LOT of single men out there, I suspect!).

I finally got around to a coherent posting on what I DO want, and what this debt-repayment journey is all about for me.

If you read The In-Debt Net, please do consider posting your dream in the comments - I firmly believe that articulating our dreams makes them a little easier to reach...

Floors!

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This has been a very exciting step, as we now have some floors on the first stage of the building. The space to the left of the picture will be a hallway, a loo and a stillroom/pantry. The space to the right will be a garage which we plan on promptly filling with rubbish, in the time honoured tradition of garages. This picture shows nicely how it's all going to be split level. Down a few stairs to the kitchen, up a few stairs to the living room etc.

Build Pictures

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There's more in the "The Build" Flickr set, if you're interested in knowing where we are now. The picture here shows the stairs down to the basement level with the study and music room doors to the right and the kitchen door straight ahead. Now that there are some actual *floors* on top of the room spaces it is getting easier to envision being in it :-)