WITH all the shortages on the supermarket shelves these days, it is to be hoped that they are well stocked up with razors and shaving foam.

That is because it is only a couple of days until December, and many of those who dared to grow their facial hair might be glad to shave it off when Movember ends.

Movember: the season of mellow mists and mighty moustaches.

What started as an Australian joke has become a worldwide camaign to raise awareness and funds for those cancer charities.

Travos Garone and Luke Slattery decided to start a joke amongst their friends by bringing back the fashion of growing a moustache.

Later on, they decided to associate the challenge with a blue ribbon like the one used to advocate for breast cancer in order to campaign for men’s health.

Garone and Slattery approached their friends and were astonished to know that 30 of their friends were ready to take the challenge and grow a moustache after sending an email titled: “Are you man enough to be my man?”

Since then, of course, Movember has spread around the world and, according to the internet, woman ccould have also throw away their razors this month. Imagine - no shaving of legs or armpits and we can virtuously declare that we are doing it for charity.

There are no women in our photos today except those at the business end of the razors.

But we did see just a fraction of those in the city and surrounds who took the plunge and both grew moustaches and raised money.

The results were not quite as shocking as we might have thought, though.

We have had the pandemic and who shaved during that? I had been married to a man with fairly short back and sides for 49 years and suddenly had a long-haired, bearded hippy sharing my life.

Finally, what about  Dave Wardrope of Harraby who became the face of HP Sauce in his area for a special media campaign about Movember.

I wonder if he was paid in bottles of the sauce? Not a bad deal really...

But December is looming, if it is not already by the time you read this.

If you have a thick bush of white hair and an equally bushy white beard and moustache, then keep it on - there is a job for you in December!