When I started with current employer back in 2017, I had a relatively close cropped hairstyle. Roughly a year later, when I'd been there long enough that I needed a staff photo taken by the on staff photographer, it was below my ears, but not down to my shoulders.

I've been pretty much growing it out since, with trims every 3-6 months (when the kids were in school this was much easier to track, as we just did an everyone has a trim at the start of each term). It is now comfortably to my waist, and I have to be careful where it is when putting the back pack on, doing up my trousers, and sitting on the loo.

It has grown out somewhat curlier than it was, although as the last time I had it this long it was pretty much straight (that was back in 1992; I cut it because I got sick of catching it in my jeans zipper - I haven't done that yet, which suggests it isn't quite as long yet) so 'curlier' isn't much. It does happily form loose ringlets if I comb it right after washing.

I'm in two minds about keeping it this long. On the one hand, I like the feel of it on my back, the weight of it isn't giving me headaches (which I had a lot of in my 20s), and it mostly looks okay. On the other hand, keeping it clean is a nuisance, and getting it dry after washing it when the weather is cold and wet sucks, and I don't use a hair dryer for a whole lot of reasons. On the third hand, what I told myself was that I'd cut it all off when it started properly going grey/white, so that it was all the same colour. Which I have a few white hairs, it is persisting in not actually showing my age, which is only a bit surprising. (I also told myself that I'd cut it when I got my next job, which I haven't done yet).

And today I broke one of my two hair-sticks, so keeping it out of my way slightly less easy than usual (the other is somewhere). I'll use a pencil if I have to, but I also need to work out where to go to acquire more.