Wednesday, June 24, 2026

A Small World of Haircuts


A very short read about mostly very short haircuts. OK this is a strange thing to reflect on but ... I’m idly thinking of the whereabouts of where I’ve suffered the fleeting joy and/or the deeply felt indignity of getting a haircut - as a man of a certain age who likes to look back from time to time, this is just yet another thing that’s rolling around in my head like a loose ball bearing.

Here are the locations and places where I can recall actually getting my hair cut:

Anstruther/Cellardyke, Fife.

Rosyth, Fife.

Inverkeithing, Fife.

Dunfermline, Fife.

South Queensferry, Edinburgh.

Alloa, Clackmannan.

Bo’ness, Falkirk.

Linlithgow, West Lothian.

Bath, Avon.

St Hellier, Jersey.

Marmaris, Turkey.

Armaco de Pera, Portugal.

Clermont, Florida.

It’s not really much of a list, so that tells you a bit about how I’ve lived my life. Probably quite normal, dull even. In the Scottish places there are of course multiple barbers in the various towns/locations that I’ve used. Any non-UK places are a “one off” based on some kind of impulse or curiosity I may have given in to at the time.

Favourite barber? Either Turkish or Kurdish.

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