Visiting the hairdressers

Well this week I got my hair cut, not such a biggie in NZ but it is here. It takes a while to find someone you trust and then train them to cut your hair and do it the way you want. I have been going to Marie-Claire a French lady at her salon Coiffure Francois for a while now. She is OK not as good as my lovely Susan at Upper Kutt in NZ. We have a lot of ooh la la's while she is doing things and the styles are different too. She tends to cut with weird scissors and a razor thing that seems to scrap the hair rather than cut it. I had a perm on the top part of my hair as I do in NZ. Here they attach a machine to one of the curling rods, put on a cap and then stick you under a dryer! Feeling rather like a turkey being cooked , you are processed until the buzzer goes off and then evidently you are cooked enough to have the rest of the process done! Can't say I like it, I think it is hard on the hair but that's the way it is done here. The results are usually OK but still not as good as NZ. At the moment it is so hot here that there is very little cold water through the taps, as the water tanks are on the roof in the sun. The hairdresser uses bottled water to rinse your hair ;-) One nice thing about having your hair done is that you can have a pedicure and / or manicure at the same time - most enjoyable.
The photo was taken in my office space at work but that's about to change as we are having two separate office spaces made so its a bit more private. As Jean and other office staff who have worked with me know I will have trouble staying in a separate office I like company!!