Oh you should see my passport photo. I had to renew it in April and I knew about the "no smiling" so I went to Morrisons and used a photo booth.
My hair is grey, it has been since I was 30 (inherited from my dad), and I wear glasses. The photo is, as they nearly always are, over-exposed. Against the white background in the booth I look like I have no top to my head. My glasses (reactions lenses) are quite dark but have a bright spot in the middle of each lens. My non-smiling expression makes me look extremely depressed and there is a purple shadow on my neck that looks like someone has just tried to strangle me. This was the second attempt in the booth - the first lot were even worse. I looked at least 90 the first time, on the 2nd I just look 85.
Perhaps the worst thing about it all was, when I went to Malta in May none of the immigration officials turned a hair when they looked at the photo in my passport and I thought, "My God, do I really look like that?"
