MikeHove's definitions

CLA

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 that woman in the blue dress by the window

by MikeHove May 14, 2020

Uncle Len

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.

by MikeHove January 19, 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

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

by MikeHove January 22, 2026