Thanks for your comments.

@gato - Yeh I think this is the thing - social acceptance of stubble or early stage beards is pretty high and as i've looked around more often than not guys are sporting some sort of facial hair.  The longer growth is a harder thing to walk around with but i've noticed that people comment to begin with but after a while, as with most things, they lose interest  There is also a marked difference I've found with the 6 weeks type length which is almost between stages of short beard andthe longer ( i did this on purpose) beard.

Thanks for the feedback, I will keep it going to 8 weeks and see what I and my other half think.  My little one does not seem to mind at all