Rock star mop gets the chop Ian Graham only had one thought when he got his first haircut in 12 months.
Ian was starting to love his long locks, but he was keen to raise some funds for Sight Scotland Veterans. With help from Linburn Cen“I wish I had taken a hat to the tre Officer Matt Scarcliff, Ian asked barbers with me because it was his friends, family and blind bowling bloody freezing,” he said. team mates if they would make a donation to Sight Scotland Veterans Ian is a Sight Scotland Veterans if he chopped his grey mane. His member who lives in Larbert, north network obliged and donated £45. of Falkirk. Next came the clippers. The army veteran had worn his hair trimmed short for decades. Ian was “My hair came off in December planning to get his regular cut in 2020. I wore a woolly hat after my March 2020, but his local barbers haircut and stayed indoors because was closed due to Coronavirus lock- it was so cold.” down restrictions. Ian said he looked forward to meet“I thought, I’ll just let it grow for a ing with his blind bowling team mafew months. But the barbers stayed tes and other Sight Scotland Veterclosed, so it just kept growing,” Ian ans members in person, once the said. lockdown restrictions permitted it. By November 2020, Ian’s thick and “The camaraderie between the frizzy grey hair starting to cascade members is the life blood of Sight down his back. Scotland Veterans. I’m looking forward to meeting everyone face to ”People started saying I looked like face again,” Ian said. Bryan May, from Queen. I’d gone from an army veteran to a glam rock star,” Ian said. “Then, people started calling me Worzel Gummidge, because it’s so springy.” 10
