On the Road Again!

Now that is frightening!  Sorry if you were eating when this popped up. It's the shave face.  In the previous post asking to you sponsor me for Movember   I showed the full beard face. That was shaved off without too many injuries although I nicked my bottom lip and it has been bleeding on and off since. By Friday, the official starter's gun for a month of tache growing, I'll have shave again to start off smooth.....  So please, spare even the minimum £3 and sponsor me.  My links are all over the place. It's 15 years since I had my first go and that was a charity called Tacheback. Pretty much the same ideals as Movember but now defunct.  Shame as I raised a good few quid in the two years I did it. Maybe this year's Movember will morph into Decembeard?  

Getting closer.  The rules are that on November 1st everyone should start with a clean shave and that entrants  keep growing a tache for the whole month.  From what I have seen there are people whose facial hair grows like quickfire bamboo. I mean that within a few days they have a lush tache.  I am starting from a full beard position. More to shave off....  Please sponsor me:   https://uk.movember.com/donate/details?memberId=2865109 This year is also FIFTEEN years since I grew my first tache for the Tacheback charity.  I followed that early success up in 2006 -  http://invictamoto.blogspot.com/2006/08/tacheback.html

It's 12 years since I did my first charity 'tache growing and that was with Tacheback. In fact I did Tacheback twice before it disappeared and was re-invented as Movember a number of years ago. This year, so far, fund raising has been disappointing. That's the polite way of putting it.  All I asked was for my FB friends to donate one pound or whatever local currency they have. International charities like Movember can cope with different currencies, be they dollars or euro and a myriad of others. I can't say it is hard work growing a moustache. After all, once your balls drop, hair tends to grow all over the place, the top lip being just one place.   So one last time this is my mospace:   https://uk.movember.com/mospace/2865109 There are only two days left in this Movember and the mo will be revealed late on the 30th.  Please sponsor me,  if only a quid or a buck. They all count.

Into the final trot and then Movember 2014 will come to a bumpy end... https://uk.movember.com/mobile/#profile/2865109 Thanks to everyone that has donated and I hope that as it is payday this week for most of the UK, it's a chance to donate. 

It looks as though I am going to have to do some pretty drastic cutting and shaping to get the 'tache to look okay. I had been hoping for the Burt Reynolds or Sonny Bono look, but in the end it is a little too grey! Looking back through the blog history to see when I first started this caper, and it looks like 2004, although the first blog entry is back in 2006 with Tacheback . So, two thirds of the way through the month and I have raised less than ten years ago.  Not even keeping up with inflation. Here's the link again in case someone wants to spend a dollar or a pound, a zloty or whatever.  Every penny counts. http://uk.movember.com/mospace/2865109

WHO WILL JOIN ME? The new website will launch in mid/late September and the current site will go. This means that everyone will start afresh with a clean slate and their totals back to zero. So for those who want to take part again they can reactivate their accounts (ie the system will remember your details) and anyone taking part for the first time – they will be able to register at movember.com See you in Movember :- {     P.S. I did Tacheback last year!

It's over, and thank the Lord. Now the hard part, collecting the money.

So only two days to go, the tache is probably not got much further to go before it will be time to remove it and consign the whole idea to the back burner until 2007! Okay it's not as fantastic as the ones on the TV recently, but they were World Championship level competitors!

Tacheback - The Tache so far Originally uploaded by pauldevall . After 19 days of the 30 I am contracted to my sponsors to complete the Tache is actually starting to show up. Okay, it's not quite up to Einstein proportions but it is getting there. So far I have about £60 in sponsorship online and another £60 or so on the paper sheet that circulated at work. Thanks to everyone that has sponsored me so far. I might "out" you all on here afterwards...

Okay, so it might not seem all that cool to grow a 'Tache. Heck I am even crap at actually getting any decent facial hair to grow to look anything like nancy boy George Clooney manages, but it's all in a good cause. Go to www.tacheback.com and see how you can help raise money. If you don't want to grow one yourself, or already have one, then sponsor me. Do this by going to https://www.bmycharity.com/V2/invictamoto and clicking on the buttons... All I have to do it grow a tache in September. One measly month in my life to grow something as simple as a tache! Easy? I did it in 2004 and it was pretty rubbish, but I raised just over £110. I'd like to think that all of you out there, friends and colleagues will visit my sponsor page and pledge some of your money...