Cosmetologists take their cue

July 21, 2026 — 9:00pm“Just wondering if Col8-ers have any special travel habits for each new country they visit,” writes Geoff Carey of Pagewood. “Mine is finding a barber to investigate the local nuances of a balding No. 1 buzz cut. My best experience is a tie between the Istanbul barber who denuded every orifice on my head with great intensity and the Omani barber’s pyrotechnic sterilisation of his blades by igniting alcohol, causing a brilliant metre long flame in the air.”“I’m at my mum’s in The Kitchen that Time Forgot,” says Jo Rainbow, currently of Speen, Midsomer, UK. “Please can your learned readers explain the purpose of a pressure cooker, other than being donated to make Spitfires?” Chocks away!The punchline challenge (C8) from Suzanne Saunders might just have a winner, in the