following the afore mentioned incidents I decided to purchase my own cut-throat razor and after trying to explain that I didn’t want a safety razor I wanted the type you can kill someone with, I got a shiny new stainless steel one with blades. And this is where I humbly apologise to all those people I criticised in the previous email. It’s bloody impossible! I managed the left side of my face with only minor cuts and scratches (and she cuts like a beauty) but then the right side, where I have to kind of invert my right hand, was another matter. suffice to say it looked much worse than what those professionals managed to achieve.

two weeks later, most of them have healed to the point where you can only see the scars if you look for them and my second encounter with the razor resulted in fewer near-fatal cuts.

I hope to achieve bloodless shaving some time in the first quarter of 2002.