It's amazing how a little thing like hair colour can make you feel a lot better about yourself, isn't it?!! I haven't seen my proper colour for years although my eyebrows remind me what it used to look like. My roots come through grey now and the blonder bits in my hair are probably white. I'm 56 and my hairdresser advised me to go blonde ages ago. It looks better for darker roots to come through blonde than for greyer ones to come through dark colouring. I see her once a month and my roots are usually appearing after about 3 weeks; my hair seems to be growing faster! I have fine and not particularly thick hair and I'm not that great at styling it, unlike my mum and daughter. Guess that gene missed a generation. You seem to have an amazingly busy life!! It's so different to mine - I have really enjoyed reading about it. :0)