Well, it's just ineffable.

In support of the men's testicle charity Movember I embarked in the last month on the fine and noble quest of growing not just a moustache that could frighten small children, but a full beard to prove just how manly I can be and to raise awareness for said charity. I'm not really sure how much benefit to the world my single beard brought, but the guys at work raised over £6,000 by selling a limited edition whisky, so lets call it a rounding success.

Growing a beard was an interesting experience. Certainly the worst part was how incredibly itchy is became about a week in, but once that was over it was smooth sailing. Because I only had the fella for a month there was no need to maintain or shape it, so it was actually less work than the regular shaving I normally do. I certainly got some comments that I should have only grown a moustache as per the "rules" of the charity, but as was proven in the photo I took during the shave down, it was probably for the best that I didn't.

Unless you're my Dad, moustaches are a stupid concept. Very few people pull them off, and I have proven not to be one of them. As requested, I also took a photo of the obligatory moustache before it went completely.

I was certainly of two minds about shaving it off at the end, with opinion divided between whether I looked good with a beard or not. In the end I opted to axe the beard because of the maintenance it would require in the future and because I look much younger without it. It's certainly good to know I can pull one off though, and might reconsider in the future.

You can see daily photos of the beard's progression and ultimate death over here.

In other news, I was on another episode of Downloadable Content in which we had an open discussion about anything and everything video games. I don't really recall what I talked about, but I'm sure it was all podcasting gold. You can subscribe to the show in iTunes or download the episode directly via this linkage.