Well, I suppose as I managed to make it as far as March before Yours Truly Confused broke down and got the scissors out, I’ve been doing quite well in the battle to remain scruffy.
This morning she launched a dawn attack and chopped off all of my carefully arranged carpet, then hauled me into that torture chamber she laughingly refers to as the bathroom.
There have been threats of taking out the dreaded clipper to tidy up the loose ends, but I think her right hand is paralysed with cramp from the scissoring, so a truce has been agreed for the moment.