"Comb your hair, Angela, you look like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards" my long-suffering mother would say. I remember how frustrated she was that the teacher made no attempt to tidy up my locks before the annual school photo. If I hadn't already packed it, I'd share that picture here. You think the PM looks scruffy - I'm told he ruffles his hair before the No 10 briefings - but scruffiness came naturally to me.
looking as if they had
been drawn through a hedge backwards.”
A 'concerned dog-walker' [let's face it, it is almost always a dog-walker or jogger who discovers such things] rang the police. They had seen somebody apparently motionless, stuck in the hedge.
But fear not - it was not an entrapped bird-watcher, nor yet a grisly murder incident [I admit, I have been binge-watching Criminal Minds recently, I do think Mandy Patinkin is a good actor]
It was just the bottom half of a shop-mannequin, dressed and posed to cause consternation among the Norfolk locals.
My mother's favourite school photo of me was when I was looking totally disheveled, The following year the teacher checked us before the photographer did his stuff but mother thought the scruffy picture caught the real me.
ReplyDeleteCan't say I've heard that expression, before! Too funny about the bottom half of the mannequin!
ReplyDeleteA very common expression in our house when I was younger too.
ReplyDeleteMy mother used the same expression when I was growing up, so I, too, used it with my children. Many of their school photos would tell the same tale.
ReplyDeleteMy Mum used a similar expression - 'dragged through a whin bush backwards'. I often think of it when I look at my hair first thing in the morning. Can't wait for hairdressers to reopen!
ReplyDeleteMe too... My hair is really in need of a trim. It's almost a year since my last haircut
DeleteHee hee! My teachers used to say that to me too - I had really long hair and lots of bits escaped around my face... Cheers
ReplyDeleteYes, I am very familiar with this phrase- my Mum used it a lot to me too and I use it myself too...usually to describe myself!
ReplyDeleteI see that you say your hair needs a trim- mine needed a big cut last January- it's been about 2 years since my last trim/cut- I was growing my hair, hopefully for a wig for a cancer-sufferer (though where to send it, I don't know yet) but still not had it done!
You need the Little Princess Trust - https://www.littleprincesses.org.uk/ one of our young girls at church had hers cut for them last year, during that brief spell between lockdowns when hairdressers were open again
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