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Definitions by MikeHove

Fairlawns Hair

Highly-styled, blow-dried, bouffant hair, (typically with an apricot rinse) used to assert social status following retirement and a downsize from an affluent suburb to a much smaller, although favoured, seafront apartment.
Have you seen Margaret? she's got very Fairlawns Hair
Fairlawns Hair by MikeHove January 22, 2026

Fairlawns Hair

Highly-styled, blow-dried, bouffant hair, (typically with an apricot rinse) used to assert social status following retirement and a downsize from an affluent suburb to a much smaller, although favoured, seafront apartment.
Have you seen Margaret? she's got very Fairlawns Hair
Fairlawns Hair by MikeHove January 22, 2026
The last husband standing of a group of older women who assumes, or is hen-pecked into, the responsibility of driving the them around on social occasions and nominally in charge of pick up/drop off order, routes, parking, coats and bags. Usually in a Honda.
Mike isn't coming today, he's off being Uncle Len.
Uncle Len by MikeHove January 19, 2026
Celebrity Lookalike Alert. Abbreviation used to alert your friends to the proximity of someone who bears a resemblsnce to a celebrity. A correct guess earns you 3 points it's a giving game. Further 3 points for a combination of two features - eg hair from one celebrity, face from another. 1 point for an "acknowledgement" where the caller discloses who they perceived, and the seer subsequently agrees
CLA by MikeHove May 14, 2020