The Boy and The Coconut Tree

I've celebrated Christmas or part of Christmas in Australia, the USA, and Vietnam and now it is the turn of Spain or more specifically, Catalonia. In Vietnam and the USA the Christmas resembled the one I am used to, trees, Santa Claus, Reindeers and images of Snowmen etc, Australia was almost the same except the heat on Christmas day was 100f and I ate grilled prawns in someone’s garden and drank chilled beer from a cooler. Here in Barcelona over the past few weeks the lights have gone up, the trees are decorated and the stores are full of the signs saying Bon Nadal or Feliz Navidad depending on what language you speak. In Spain the children receive their gifts on January 6, it is a holiday called Reyes (Kings) and is the day the 3 Kings arrived to visit the baby Jesus etc. and gave him gift vouchers from M&S and Argos (or is that the British version), or something like that. In some Spanish households the children also receive some gifts on Christmas day the sa

Today's question is: should we go bald gracefully or not? As  people who know me well will concur, I have lost a lot of hair since my floppy fringed teenage days. I am now crowned with a head of hair most suitable for the armed forces or lice victims but I like my hair short and greying as it is one of the least bothersome faces of middle age. A clipper cut looks good on most men and some women so it puzzles me why so many men rather than show off their heads, and wear a tidy clipper cut, choose to wear a wig or one of those hair transplant things. I am writing this because today I’ve encountered two middle aged men (both American) that despite their age (in their 70s) were wearing wigs/weaves/hair transplants that wouldn’t even suit a full haired teenage boy. Do hair weaves only come in 2 colours, shoe polish brown, or varicose mahogany? Do they do it because they think it makes them look younger, it doesn’t. Both men looked strange, the first thing you can see is the od