Let's not split hairs over life with a beard
Years later, I was bewildered by my dad's really quite hostile reaction when I successfully gave facial hair a go for the first time. Then I remembered.David GrayBirmingham
My late husband had a beard when we met in 1966, and I only saw him clean-shaven in old photographs. It was a full beard, befitting a geologist who had spent time in the field without a mirror. It was regarded with suspicion by Scottish farmers; one even offered to shear him with his sheep. At the time, beards were associated with artists and revolutionaries. My aunts, on first meeting Jack, summed him up as 'very nice, considering he has a beard'. Susan TreagusDidsbury, Manchester
Polly Hudson writes: 'All men look better with beards and I will die on that hill.' Perhaps Keith Flett's Beard Liberation Front might consider awarding her honorary life membership. Toby WoodPeterborough
Most, if not all, men have beards. It's just that the intelligent ones don't bother to scrape hair from their face every day. A pointless pastime.Ronnie MacleodAberporth, Ceredigion
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