It starts with a call from a private number, before a low husky voice asks “can I speak to the lady barber?”

Hairdressers and barbers around the country have dubbed it “the call” and it’s been going on for years.

Canterbury barber Jodie Boland received the call for the first time a few weeks ago.

“Hello darling,” the caller began.

Boland described the caller’s voice like Agnus Brown from Mrs Brown's Boys, but with anAustralian accent. She was unsure of the caller’s gender.

“She or he introduced herself as Christine. She said she had two lesbian daughters who had been naughty, and they needed their heads shaved as punishment.”

The older daughter, with shoulder-length hair, would have a flat top, the caller said, and asked Boland how she would do it.

“She said, ‘ooh describe how you will do it, ooh how short’...

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