Well, this morning was just about the worse shave ever. Two things happened at nearly the same instant to cause this. First, somehow my butter fingered self manage to drop and BREAK JCBB(Joel's Cool Blue Bowl). This is a disaster of the first order in and of itself! Of course when it fell, I tried to grab it in mid air. I was too slow. So, just as it hit and broke into two large pieces, it ricocheted off the counter and cut a nasty gouge in my right wrist. All this happened in a split second. What a bollocksed up morning. This was my second attempt at using my new jar of Charles Tyrwhitt shave cream. The first time I used way too much water and got watery lather and a lousy shave. This morning I had to break out the old straight sided bowl I used to use and lathered in it. I did not get great results. Yet again the lather was not "just right". I assign most of this to still being a bit shook up. I don't know, it's almost as if I'm not supposed to enjoy or get good lather from the Tyrwhitt. The most irritating thing was losing JCBB! This was gifted to me a few years ago by the man himself and I've used it daily since. It was almost perfectly sized. It fit superbly on top of my hot pot to make a fine double "warmer" not boiler. It had the nice concave sides to keep the lather worked back into the middle of the bowl, and it was just the right depth to allow lots of lather building without banging the brush handle on the sides. I have saved the parts and will find a local ceramic potter to make me a new one using this as a pattern. Alas, it will have to be in a different colour. To mimic the sky blue of the original JCBB would be ceramic plagiarism. Dang it fellas, this is a real bummer and I had to shed some blood over it as well. I await the well deserved verbal onslaught for allowing such an irriplaceable piece of shavingdom to be lost.
Regards, Todd
Regards, Todd
