dready s ‘the very fictitious west indian regiment’s moustaches’ –
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it’s MoVember coming up and the local committee asked me if I’d come up with a dready …

in my mind moustaches are linked to 4 things; disco, cops, (disco-cops), hipsters and the ignoble business of victorian era militarism …

and i’m a fan of the flashman books, love his character …

and so I began to play with the idea in my head of what a west indian victorian adventurer-soldier might be like: irreverent, cool, bad-man, swish …

he’d be like sir richard burton; he’d write books on sex and discover the source of the nile all in a week like …

to rass …