The longest serving worker along Goodwood Parade shops on Courtlands Drive in Watford is about to hang up her hairdressing scissors after sixty one years on the parade, that's sure alot of haircuts, so I caught up with Naomi Coyle to find out how it all started : "When I was thirteen, I used to work Fridays and Saturdays at the Hairdressers , it was called "Malcoms" back then. When I left school at around thirteen/fourteen I did my apprenticeship there before leaving for a short while, but then I came back and the shop had a new owner and name "Richards" and I must've worked there for a good forty years. When Richard retired and the shop closed I moved over to the other side of the Parade where owner Julie Allery had the Hair Tech salon and I've been here ever since" There has been alot of filming on the Parade over the years and some of you might remember the Confused.co...
Tha problem with M.E apart from having to cope with enough symptoms to fill an encyclopaedia with is it means you have no life, so if you have no life other than M.E what are you expected to talk about? When I’m not recovering from major surgery I do have a little bit of a life that I’ve carved out for myself but that’s taken a long time and takes discipline and determination to carry out because it doesn’t stop my day being consumed by M.E. and everyone copes differently. For those of you that don’t have M.E let me explain, imagine a time when you’ve had raging toothache, you know tha kind, where it feels like your whole heads pulsating and throbbing with pain? now imagine painkillers don’t work, theres nuthin tha dentist can do so you’re just gonna have to get on with it, live like that everyday probably for tha rest of your life……..now throw flu and a hangover into tha mix and everyone expects you to carry on as normal?…I’m just giv...
After 29 yrs of living or should I say lingering with the horrendous condition known as M.E (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) I'm never quite sure what to write that hasn't already been said, but as it's M.E awareness month I feel I should say something. So in response to some recent ignorance I came up with "My M.E Life of Riley" and thought I'd record it to video, unfortunately being at the receiving end of such ignorance is nothing new when you have M.E or other chronic conditions I'm sure? But social media is a great educating platform to address it. I must've recited the piece 50 times or more in my head perfectly, however, with M.E it's getting it from our brain to our mouth that's the problem, it's like squeezing words from the back of your head through a dense wall of marshmallow in an effort to get them to the front, by which time we've forgotten which word we were attempting to squeeze through in the first place. By my 8...