Shave of the Day - 2025

[Gargravarr]

Sunday 21 December 2025
Soap: Pb Red Dwarf
Brush: Semogue Boar
Razor: Colonial General Brass
Blade: Feather Pro Super

Haven't posted in a good while but my normal life come to a screaming halt six weeks ago when I arrived home from a work trip and the dogs all wanted to say G'day at once. So a handful of dogs, turning on the spot whilst not realising I had a foot firmly planted and crunch, a classic tib/fib explosion, down I went like a sack of potatoes. Spiral fracture in the tibia and smashed fibula. The fix - apparently tibial nails are all the rage (see attached image). Now you know that as soon as they're pulling out drills, hammers, screws etc for surgery, it's not going to be pretty. So over the last six weeks opioids are my friend, not a very good friend, but a very necessary friend, whom I am still showing to the door. Oh, and lets not forget the ketamine trip in ER when they did a temporary set on my leg whilst waiting two days for surgery. Everyone in within cooee would've heard my singing/screaming. I've decided that torture is not for me.....name, rank and serial number and whatever else you want to know...... Kudos to Mrs Pbgoose who stuck by me and talked me through it.
So my house looks like a centre for mobility aids, my favourite being a borrowed lift chair, which I've spent a large percentage of my recent life in.
And Gillette disposables got a look in when I got home and had a shower, apparently they don't wash or shower you any more in hospital so I was a bit on the nose and bearded by the time I got home. Shower shaving was definetly a thing until I got a little more mobile.
Life throws stuff like this at you, makes you stop and gain a whole new appreciation for a lot of things, like the finer accoutrements of wet shaving.......

Ooh. Sorry to hear about that. Your x-ray pic looks like someone has been spending too much time at Bunnings. Hope you heal up soon...

 

[Pbgoose]

Ooh. Sorry to hear about that. Your x-ray pic looks like someone has been spending too much time at Bunnings. Hope you heal up soon...

Thanks @Gargravarr , unfortunately there's nothing quick about it, probably talking 3 mnths off work. Had fracture clinic the other day and the surgeon was shaking his head looking at the latest X-rays so I'm going, 'what, are we on track?' and he responds 'yes, on track, it's just going to be slow, it would look a whole lot better if you were 25, but you're not......'
The Bunnings comment probably wasn't that far out either. Post surgery one of the surgeons said 'just as well you're tall'. I said 'why is that'. They responded 'well, because your tibia is longer the nail sits down into the tibia, but if you were shorter the nail may protrude a little and aggravate the knee'. I'm thinking 'Whaat!! Sounds like they need a trades consultant in the operating theatre for quality control.

 

[klinker]

Monday SOTD
Greencult GC 1.1 Elite Razor Ringneck Pheasant
Elite Razor Chestnut Brown/Gold Resin 26MM Manchurian White
Czech and Speake No 88 Shaving Soap (Valobra)
LEA Classic Aftershave Lotion

 

[SpeedyPC]

Pre-shave:- Cold Shower
Bowl/Scuttle:- Captain's Choice
Brush:- Yaqi Sagrada Familia Pure Badger 22/50mm knot
Soap/Cream:- Arko the world-famous piss stick, fantastic for summer season to keep those blood sucking mosquitoes away.
Razor/Blade:- Weber PH with iKon Bulldog Handle / Vintage NOS English Wilkie #2
Post/After-shave:- Isocol Multipurpose Alcohol Spray 450ml
Fragrance:- Milkman Bay Bounty (Australian made)
Deodorant:- Milkman Bay Bounty (Australian made)

 

[Errol]

Sunday 21 December 2025
Soap: Pb Red Dwarf
Brush: Semogue Boar
Razor: Colonial General Brass
Blade: Feather Pro Super

Haven't posted in a good while but my normal life come to a screaming halt six weeks ago when I arrived home from a work trip and the dogs all wanted to say G'day at once. So a handful of dogs, turning on the spot whilst not realising I had a foot firmly planted and crunch, a classic tib/fib explosion, down I went like a sack of potatoes. Spiral fracture in the tibia and smashed fibula. The fix - apparently tibial nails are all the rage (see attached image). Now you know that as soon as they're pulling out drills, hammers, screws etc for surgery, it's not going to be pretty. So over the last six weeks opioids are my friend, not a very good friend, but a very necessary friend, whom I am still showing to the door. Oh, and lets not forget the ketamine trip in ER when they did a temporary set on my leg whilst waiting two days for surgery. Everyone in within cooee would've heard my singing/screaming. I've decided that torture is not for me.....name, rank and serial number and whatever else you want to know...... Kudos to Mrs Pbgoose who stuck by me and talked me through it.
So my house looks like a centre for mobility aids, my favourite being a borrowed lift chair, which I've spent a large percentage of my recent life in.
And Gillette disposables got a look in when I got home and had a shower, apparently they don't wash or shower you any more in hospital so I was a bit on the nose and bearded by the time I got home. Shower shaving was definetly a thing until I got a little more mobile.
Life throws stuff like this at you, makes you stop and gain a whole new appreciation for a lot of things, like the finer accoutrements of wet shaving.......

And the dogs still love you. Keep your chin up and get better soon.

 

[SpeedyPC]

Sunday 21 December 2025
Soap: Pb Red Dwarf
Brush: Semogue Boar
Razor: Colonial General Brass
Blade: Feather Pro Super

Haven't posted in a good while but my normal life come to a screaming halt six weeks ago when I arrived home from a work trip and the dogs all wanted to say G'day at once. So a handful of dogs, turning on the spot whilst not realising I had a foot firmly planted and crunch, a classic tib/fib explosion, down I went like a sack of potatoes. Spiral fracture in the tibia and smashed fibula. The fix - apparently tibial nails are all the rage (see attached image). Now you know that as soon as they're pulling out drills, hammers, screws etc for surgery, it's not going to be pretty. So over the last six weeks opioids are my friend, not a very good friend, but a very necessary friend, whom I am still showing to the door. Oh, and lets not forget the ketamine trip in ER when they did a temporary set on my leg whilst waiting two days for surgery. Everyone in within cooee would've heard my singing/screaming. I've decided that torture is not for me.....name, rank and serial number and whatever else you want to know...... Kudos to Mrs Pbgoose who stuck by me and talked me through it.
So my house looks like a centre for mobility aids, my favourite being a borrowed lift chair, which I've spent a large percentage of my recent life in.
And Gillette disposables got a look in when I got home and had a shower, apparently they don't wash or shower you any more in hospital so I was a bit on the nose and bearded by the time I got home. Shower shaving was definetly a thing until I got a little more mobile.
Life throws stuff like this at you, makes you stop and gain a whole new appreciation for a lot of things, like the finer accoutrements of wet shaving.......