Fred Basset by Alex Graham for October 31, 2020

You’ve created a hairy situation, Mr. Dear.

Five minutes later he comes back clean shaven.

Your face too, Fred, says it all :D

Yeah, I’m going with her face. Some guys got it and some don’t. He’s a don’t, and you know it’s true, Fred.

This may happen while in quarantine, I expect I will look like Santa by the end of the month.

No smooches for you till it goes…..

Designer stubble!?! I call it bum fuzz!!

Remember the fad when guys were “shaving” with a hair clipper, so they always had stubble?

Is he starting an Austin Facial Hair Club Brit style?

Ho Beau. No costume needed this year Dear. Can Mrs. Dear grow one as well? Fred’s whiskers are white. Old timely Freddie.

If I ever had that much beard showing, I would be sleeping on the couch which I never did in 49+ years of being married ! ! ! !

Take care of it with proper washing and conditioning and she’ll come around. The Mrs loves mine.

Could take along while to get used to—-do they have twin beds?

Started a few beards in college, but my then girlfriend would complain about it scratching and I’d shave. When I came back with one after a summer away from her it was “her idea all along.” My wife didn’t like how it looked in my graduation picture (I had reduced it to a mustache by the time we met in grad school), but understands when I grow one for a role (the one in my avatar was born for Friar Lawrence and Sir Toby Belch, served a hillbilly and an eccentric in local bits, and departed in 2011, via some side whiskers for Old Fezziwig and the Ghost of Christmas Present – this just happened to be my most cartoonish portrait when I joined GC) and knows it’ll be gone as soon as the show closes.

November is grow a moustache month in Britain for cancer charities.