If you look like your passport photo ...

Well, not actually my passport photo - I received the letter today informing me that it is time to change my driving licence photo. Not that it's not well timed - I'm sure that, one day, when I use it for ID, they'll refuse it! Now 29, usually blonde, short curly mop, they understandably give me a sideways glance or two when I present them with a photo of a 19-year-old with very long, very red hair that's mostly obscuring her face. Because you were allowed to do that then! Now, reading through all the gumph that comes with the form, it would appear that my head needs to cover no less than 29mm and no more than 34mm of the available 45mm of photo. I need to be against a white background, be facing straight ahead, have my eyes open (and there was me going for the restful look), have no shadow, have nothing covering my face and - of course - have no smile or otherwise pronounced expression. So, having spent 25 minutes taking photo after photo, I finally have one that's bearable. By bearable, I mean I don't look intoxicated, petrified, smug, stupid or sulky. In this one, I either look slightly upset, or like I'm about to kill something. I can't quite decide which. But, when I'm not smiling, I usually am about to cry or commit murder, so it's not too inaccurate! Let's just hope my head isn't too big or too small or too wonky for the DVLA ...