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In the Chair - Real People Real Hair - Jack 2023

In the Chair - Real People Real Hair - Jack 2023

January 27, 2023

Would you let your twin brother cut your hair? How do you persuade a child to have their haircut? “What if James has a go at cutting your hair and we’ll film it and make you a Tik-Tok star!”...

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Fighting Inflation Part 2

Fighting Inflation Part 2

January 14, 2023

Is it old age that gives rise to ranting and casting opinions on authority? Or just that most of the people dictating our lives are younger than me now? But then hairdressers have always had opinions along with black-taxi drivers. 

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Fighting Inflation

Fighting Inflation

January 14, 2023

Declining productivity has been the Western World’s conundrum these last few decades. Whether you blame social media, low interest rates, WFH or ‘The Age of Entitlement’, there’s no denying the zeitgeist, and as a business, we haven’t been immune.

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Do You DIY?

Do You DIY?

December 31, 2022

Are you fed up waiting around for builders? Or even getting them to commit to a time and day? I believe that for ourselves and society’s sake, we should mostly operate at our highest level of value. I’m responsible for a salon team of 50 staff looking after 5000 clients. I run a...

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Cool Down Your Colour

Cool Down Your Colour

October 28, 2022

One of the after effects of the long hot summer can be unwanted warmth in the colour of your hair. Now I’m not talking down gingers, as I proudly lean that way with my natural warm Nordic-blonde tones!

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Gaby's Bakery - Nerf Gun Rainbow Cake

Gaby's Bakery - Nerf Gun Rainbow Cake

September 24, 2022

Every birthday I make a themed cake for the boys in tune with what’s going on for them currently.

Right now they’re crazy about Nerf guns. I think Michael would love it if they were equally keen on flower arranging but they are eight-year old boys at a boys school and obsessed with guns, ninja warriors, secret agents, bombs, bows and arrows etc.

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Is Selfcare Selfish?

Is Selfcare Selfish?

September 17, 2022

It’s now a few weeks since schools returned. The chill of winter is breezing through intermittently. The holiday glow has faded and the hair may reveal the dry, faded consequences of zero sun-protection. Aggravated scalps may also be flakier.

This seasonal shift beckons us to assess, repair and renew, ready for the next chapter. Investing in

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Farewell Mum ❤️ 1923 – 2022

Farewell Mum ❤️ 1923 – 2022

September 09, 2022

I’ve spent 20 years worrying about Mum (mostly needlessly) and thinking of this day. But it still didn’t prepare me for the sudden loss of the enormous energy field she held and the waves of grief that follow. Grief… the price you pay for love, as Queen Elizabeth II said. RIP - mother figure of our nation. Another shock this week. We’re all carrying much sadness.

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Hydration Means Water

Hydration Means Water

September 03, 2022

Words can be presented, massaged, and manipulated to spin facts. A drama, a distraction, a ‘sleight of text’. The narrative fed and digested without question as the next stimulus distracts us. Fake news is so prevalent on the internet that we seem to have become accepting, and almost comatose to delving deeper.

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Gaby's Bakery - Chocolate Amaranth Crunch

Gaby's Bakery - Chocolate Amaranth Crunch

August 26, 2022

For anyone fond of poppers, here's a healthy version. Commonly used to make naturally gluten free porridge or popped for cereals, amaranth is thought to have been cultivated wild for 8000 years before being domesticated around 4000BC. 

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Elderly Grandfather Moves in with the VCs

Elderly Grandfather Moves in with the VCs

August 24, 2022

Do you know anyone under 50 with one of these at home? Either I’m showing my age or perhaps at the cusp of a trend-shift in fashions 😀 but I saw this, loved it and bought it.

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Patience? - Who's Got the Time!

Patience? - Who's Got the Time!

August 24, 2022

They say patience is a virtue. I also think it develops with age as we realise some things just come in their own time. Or not as maybe. C’est la vie. Or ‘Them’s the breaks’ as Boris said...

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