Barber Abbas Diary.
Jan 7th AD 30.
A red head called in today, a man called Judas ,no hair just a red head. He claimed that I had put too much peroxide in the shampoo that I had sold him last week. Like I said he was supposed to rub it into his hair not drink it. I asked him to sit down, relax, have a drink of herbal tea.
Antonio the Roman Centurian came in later , he likes me to powder him up now and again. He says its not easy having a hundred men under him. He told me he had had a bit of a rough day on account of Ben Hur and his mates tearing up and down the newly made road, doing hand brake turns , playing havoc with the cobbles. He reckons Ben has been given an ASBO (anti social behaviour order ) more than once, and he's been ordered to join the , "pay back to the community team ", helping to mend the grass verge. Nothing seems to work .I reckon he should get five years on the galleys that should cool him down a bit.
Anyway, after Antonio had a drink of tea and had calmed down a bit. he said to me " do you like my underpants ?" as he took them out of his Wallmarticus carrier bag. Impressed I said , where did you get them from? He went on to tell me that his mother had made them for him for his forth coming tour to the furthest reaches of the Roman Empire .He was on his way to design a wall for Hadrian his boss. Apparently he was going to sort out the Scotia and the Pictii in Brittanicus. One under garment was made of sheeps wool and the other goat hair but he wasn't too keen on the goat undies because when he was on his last tour of duty in Brittanicus it got a bit rough around the Trossachs.