To our fantastic ladies one and all, I am always so full up of things that I want to share every day thinking of one snippet or another, but I will always start with the biggest thank you from us all for your wonderful cards, flowers, gifts and goodies, the chocolates and sweets being our favourite. Nothing compares with your wonderful encouraging and kind words for us all, nothing makes us happier than to see your pleasure and joy at what ever we have done on the day. My technical teams work tirelessly to get your work done on time and as smoothly as we can muster, even as you may have noticed with their tummy's bulging with new life....so exciting. We always hope that after a time and when they feel it’s appropriate that they will return to us part time or full time

because we miss them so much. In so many ways the girls are like family, everyone shares news of themselves and their little ones pictures and progress. It is even more exciting when the babies are brought in for a brief visit, we all love to cuddle and coo. Maybe one day they will be doing our hair, it has happened before.

With the new branch in LA and me dividing my time between there and London I have a lot on. I love the American girls and we have had the pleasure of having Marie and Kimberly, our new American team training in London. Micky is moving to LA for two years, where we will be building a fabulous team there. The Americans love the London girls and their team spirit. Next week I am off to see Dominique and the team in Manchester and receiving lots of great feed back about the crew there, some of which I have yet to meet and look forward to meeting.

On Thursday the 18th of July, I had the great pleasure of being invited to the Disability Confidence Conference and again meeting our Prime Minister. I can't wait for the moment to tackle him on woman's hair loss issues ...I shall be biding my time and will put a good case for funding and support for the women who find themselves in this dreadful life debilitating situation and the quality of life issues we face. This is a subject that I could fill these pages with and if you

know us and me, you are very aware of my drive to make changes about it all. However, I cannot express my admiration enough for the inspiration and drive of our new Minister for the Disabled. The conference was so moving and powerful and even provoked personal emotion. It was pointed out that being disabled for various reasons that at some point in the future, if we live long enough we may potentially all experience some form of disability as things will wear out i.e. sight, hearing, bone deterioration etc. Although my brother has been in a wheelchair for a third of his life, I wasn't aware of the isolation and lack of social interaction that many people with a disability are faced with daily and how much more we can all do. Ian Duncan Smith gave a rousing speech as did our PM, but it was Esher Macvey that made me want to act on this subject. Watching Chickenshed perform a fantastic routine "State of Independence" was