Now we agree this isn't particularly world shattering news. It hardly rates with lockdowns, vaccination rates or Victor Radley's suspension. However, it is a pretty big deal at Struggle Street.

We readily recall the last time we had a haircut - March 19, 2021, to be precise. It had rained steadily all week and the lass defoliating what's left of our hair was discussing the possibility of a flood. A Major Flood, she feared.

"Nothing to worry about,'' we assured, trying our best to sound wise on all matters weather.

"Why, we remember the 1978 flood. The rain was much heavier than this. If it floods, it'll only be minor.''

Our young hair cutter friend was suitably placated. We saw her four days later, washing out the mud from her salon following the biggest flood to devastate the area since '78. We shuffled past, saying nothing, vowing that in the future we'd leave the weather forecasting to weather forecasters.

But that aside, we've been thinking that perhaps it is time to go for the full head shave. Yep, the bald look, which seems to be popular these days.

A bit of history here. We've only mentioned this about a million times, but we're a child of the 1960s and 70s, an era of Big Hair. Shoulder length and longer to borrow from the song, Hair, from the Broadway musical, Hair.

There was hair everywhere and conservative Australia reacted accordingly. Some clubs, including the old Taree RSL, wouldn't allow male patrons to enter if their hair was over their collar. We're not joking here.

Our old high school had a similar edict, although unfortunately they didn't bar entry to those with slightly longer locks.

We just had to get our haircut what seemed like every second week to comply with a typically draconian rule. We spent so much time at Vince Cusack's barber shop at Chatham that some thought we'd started an apprenticeship there. Ah memories.

However, all those hairy hippies from the 1960s and 70s are well past their use by date now. And many, we've noted, now sport a hairless head.

It's no great secret that our hair is rapidly thinning.

So really, going the Full Monty won't be any great change. We've always been one to closely follow fashion trends so joining the bald is beautiful brigade will only be a continuation of this pattern.

So bald it will be, although we may wait until the weather warms a bit. However, our hair dresser will eventually be under instructions to shave off what's left of our follicles.

We won't be giving her any warnings about the weather though. Particularly concerning the possibility of flooding.