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...
Because it’s sometimes been cause for confusion I thought I’d explain why as music artist “Mama Chill” I combine it with M.E Campaigning. Like many of you living with this illness, I was living a relatively normal life before being struck down, and that life included seriously making music amongst other things, & I’d just started getting major record label interest when M.E decided to stroll along and strip me of my health, followed by my job, my social life, my music and just about every damn thing it could strip. Having been told that tha illness would mean any chance of a music career was well and truly over…. A sense of humour and fight for survival were about tha only two things I had left . Like most of you with M.E I’m guessing you often have that feeling of limboness…..is that even a word? We lose our place in tha world, our sense of direction, our reasons/motive for going on, we become lo...