Would you dare to dye your partner's hair?

As grey roots appear, imagine the plight of a wary partner asked to stand in for the experts... A cautionary tale

Recently, my wife has started walking towards me and bowing her head, as if in penitence. In fact, she's showing me the roots of her hair. Howdsit look?" she asks.

Yesterday, she sent me an email from her office" in the kitchen to mine in the converted loft upstairs. This contained a web link, with no explanation. I clicked the link. It took me to a very long article in American Vogue, How Hair Salons Will be Transformed by the Global Pandemic", about what hair salons might be like in the future: face masks, nobody getting too close, that kind of thing. It could have been summarised in a paragraph, but this being Vogue it went on and on and on. I'm sure it was brilliant. Just not for me, and I didn't finish it.