describe what the life of a retained firefighter is like currently yeah we are expected to live and work within five point two point five kilometers of the fire station um to put that in context and let a candy fire station if you go to the mountain top you you're out of you're out outside the limit you know and that's not a that's not a big distance um so we're expected to live and work in in that day in that area two point five kilometers and in response night and day 24 7 um two calls now that's what we signed up for but what we didn't sign up for is to have stations on demand for years um no new new new recruits coming in and then the pressure comes back on us to to give the same service and respond in the same way but with a depleted fire service and do most retained firefighters have to have another job as well steven i mean we we have three categories of fire firemen i mean we have those who are self employed those who are unemployed and those who are employed um now for the unemployed that's their their job you know um status is different yeah yeah they have unemployment benefits um but isn't a lot um for those who are self employed you still have to kind of you still have to i'm self employed myself you struggle with trying to work within your limits and when you want to work outside them limits you have to book time off which isn't always available you're not entitled to time off on a whim you have to book it um and then you have the employed firefighters new employers don't want to employ firemen anymore and because it's just too much a hassle but the chances of getting a job that suits your skill set within those boundaries that is paying enough money to make it worthwhile but also has a incredibly understanding employer i know we've we've a lot of employment in this country but i mean that's an awful lot of boxes to tick isn't it steven it's an awful lot of boxes to tick and the problem the problem is and why we're here today is because as i said the fire service is on stage it's broken there's no one coming in we have stations on their on their mans throughout the country and don't at all isn't the worst um as i believe but as steven McFadden mentioned there today letter kinney's on strike and our cobburn stations would be mulford folkara and shanorda now how does folkara for instance of three men available today how are they going to cover letter kinney and that's not because they're at on the picket lane or they're on strike it's because they have three men yeah and and what this comes down to really and and it shouldn't be something i don't think that the firefighters themselves should have to be um striking for it's about modernizing the fire service to drag it into the 21st century it's the that's the drag it out of the dark edges and to and to what was it should be today you know and how do you do that you give structure time off you give structured pay and unless you do that you're not going to entice anyone to come into the fire service and you have 24 7 on call for very little in return and and that's what it's about it's about it's about a life balance and it's about being able to get up in the morning and go to the beach with your children and that has no worry about the pager going it's about you know if i want to go and work a job outside the town i can do it because i'm normal that they as a standard the minute that's that's that's not the way it is and it's not just you then as an individual steven and i don't mean you specifically but you know firefighters it's not just the individual then you have to have a very understanding family you have to have a very understanding partner you have to have children that you have to say i'm sorry son or i'm sorry daughter i can't do that or daddy's not available or mommy's not available you know it's not just it's different maybe if you're you know 22 in single or something but a lot aren't and it takes too many people to make too many sacrifices seemingly it really does and it impacts the families massively more than more so than than the firemen because the firemen become adapted we you know we're in it for so long we adjust but the family's young kids in our station alone i think there's eight children um firefighters of eight young kids under the age of five you know um so i mean it impacts the family massively i mean somebody was telling me they're just talking about it the newborn baby in the house and the wife couldn't go down to the test coast to shop because they couldn't leave the fireman's on call couldn't get time off yeah and and couldn't stay on his own with his children you know so i mean it impacts massively on the families and it's just not the way it should be at the moment right okay steven and um is there a good crew of you at uh at liver today i know you then used to head into letter kenny um but what today there's about 40 firemen here um and we've been received well here in lyford um anybody hand out leaflets and people deepen horns and cheer us on and everybody seems to be behind us you know there's a massive support for us here in lyford and i'm sure when we go to letter kenny we're going to go to letter kenny couch offices i believe there's a meeting on there so we're going to go there about half on and then we will proceed to uh letter kenny fire station the hdc okay well listen good luck um we never want to see you're heading in our direction if you know what i mean steven but uh as i said in the preamble you do uh amazing work and you're not asking for an awful lot you're asking for you're actually asking to you're what you're actually asking is to protect the fire service going forward that's that's the irony of this situation it's not even necessarily for personal gain it's about the being a system that works yes as i said as i said at the start you know this isn't there's no man here that wants to be on strike we want to be back in our communities ready to respond to fire call but the service is broken and we're trying to secure the service for the public for our communities for the future all right steven pass on our uh best wishes to the rest of the guys there today thanks very much for your time thanks all right bye bye anna um you support uh steven and his colleagues anna do you oh indeed great i fully fully support the stand that they are taken i for one had no idea of the commitment that those men have to make i think it's just it's mind boggling you know no money could possibly even compensate them for the work that they do it is mind boggling that's just the only word that i could use for it yeah because you pointed out to in your message to us anna you know i don't think most of us would be equipped to do what they do uh not only just the physical element but also to deal with the psychological element of some of what they come across oh my goodness the commitment that they have to make and like it's not only just themselves but their whole family is involved there you know as he says there's certain you know uh things that happen like weddings or funerals well maybe funerals might be different but the just the total and absolute commitment that they have to make is just i just can't believe at all i use some of it but i have no idea of the commitment that they make so i for one fully understand their their you know they're so you know given my support yep your stand that they have to take and it's a pity that they have to go to those extremes you know to to get what they certainly deserve okay so you're tooting your horn for them anyway anna in support thank you i'm tooting my horn and i i couldn't get a big enough quantity for them all right god bless you anna thanks for listening thanks for calling in i hope you're well and all i hope which is good okay uh firefighters should not have the ability to strike it as life threatening service and lives depend on it surely there's another way these firefighters are part-time and are paid as such they're if you're on call are you part-time if you're cons if you're on call 24 7 uh are you part-time i think there's a strong argument suggests that you're not part-time they would say before it became uh you know a matter that we're uh discussing so publicly they would have said that uh they have exhaust every avenue that's available to them to try to find a resolution uh they've also tried to engage with the chief of the fire services across the country and in terms of uh it's been hit and miss around the country in terms of contingency plans that have been put in place to facilitate this so they would say they're doing they've they've done all of the camp but you can't they're it the fact that they can't strike trust that would be exploited it's happening with the guards at the moment the fact that the guards can't strike they have to swallow the medicine um even though they're making certain appeals on government etc good morning greg if anyone god forbid died in a house fire and these boys are on strike surely it's jail uh for holding people to ransom it's a disgrace all these boys want is more money just like the politicians i hope uh you politicians are about to start three months holidays and they get about 115 grand a year um and switch on dull tv and see how many of them are sitting in the seats i know there's more to it than that to compare uh uh to compare a um retained firefighter with with a politician is a strange one for me but anyway listen i respect your point of view that's why i wanted you to call in that's why i read it out thank you very much indeed but anyway um keep our eyes on the prize i would say uh salary is a retainer of some eight and a half thousand annually to be on call for hours okay so there's a mixture listen come here there is a mixture out there that's what we like uh ana and others in full support of of their action others think they're already doing okay uh it's a democracy it's an open platform here 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inviting you to walk the yellow walk for 30 minutes on june the 21st sign up at grow dot e today expressway bringing you the time at uh the time is precisely 28 minutes past nine you're very welcome back to the ninth and noon show here on highland radio okay uh professor paul donlop we've invited him on to the program just to help us understand a bit of information uh paul good morning to you thanks for joining us yeah thanks thanks for having me on here right okay so um the opposition housing spokesperson uh oh and oh brinn asked darryl o brian uh a question on regulations yesterday uh and and uh there seems to be a general sense that this is really quite significant so what was the question what was the answer and i suppose we can tease it out from there paul got the question here in front of me it's uh so it says uh debbie owner brinn asked the minister for housing local government heritage if he will confirm from when irish quarries and concrete producers had to comply with irish standard en 12 6 20 uh and then so that's that's the the standard for uh aggregates for used used in concrete uh and then the minister answered sort of a technical answer but i mean it's clarified the dates of it uh so a set out in the official journal of the eu the applicability date of for en 12 6 20 2002 was first of july 2003 subject to a coexistence period and date of first of january 2004 so obviously there was there must have been allowed to use uh conflicting standards up until first of january 2004 but that's the definitive date right so if those standards were properly applied uh there was proper inspections and proper oversight would we have post that date let's just use that as the date would we be seeing what we're seeing right now in terms of houses crumbling to bits foundations driveways cracking if that had been properly enforced and there was proper oversight well i mean it seems to be the case because if that's the date when that standard was applicable and uh we have producers that are producing aggregates that are full of uh powerful minerals mean particularly in this case that that standard refers quite clearly to pyrite and also pyrite and it sets the total software limits that are allowable uh for aggregates that are being tested and it clearly states uh that it can't be used for concrete if it if it breaches a certain level so for me looking at that answer uh last night i was quite clear to me that um if you've got a home that's made a defect of concrete and the total sulfur coming from these iron sulfide minerals that are oxidizing is breaching en 12 6 20 then you'd be upset yeah to say the very very least indeed so what went wrong then how uh how could we find ourselves with uh is uh en 12 6 20 and yet here we are with thousands of homes that are that as i say are are crumbling what went wrong was it that it wasn't adhered to uh and no one picked it up well i mean i think a lot of people have been on the show talking about this and over the years and uh and particularly post the conference as well to me it's clear that there's not an effect of market surveillance system in ireland that's picking up these issues uh i this is not my area of research but it's uh i mean from my my understanding of back at the time when these houses were built around that to post 2004 that the markets of interest don't buy the councils the the local authorities uh i that's a question for them really what were they doing in 2004 onwards to try and stop this thing happening these products getting into the market um so obviously it's it's a failure of uh adequate market surveillance and testing that worries and enforcing those regulations you know what's the point in having a regulation if it's not being enforced this seems to me feels to me and and people might say well look that was obvious already but this seems to me in that it's so clear and in black and white and on the record of the doll which is not an insignificant thing that this clearly states this clearly underlines once again that uh affected homeowners have zero culpability here and those that they trust and elected uh had all the responsibility and they failed in that responsibility and if that is the starting position then the only outcome is is a fully funded redress scheme that leaves no one affected by this um out of pocket because the state has to pay for the mistakes it clearly made then well i mean i think all campaigners have been have been saying that from day one you know mean the hundred percent redress leaving the one behind i mean the campaigners haven't left anyone behind our voices just haven't been heard strong enough you know uh the department of housing and the minister have come up with the regulations for the enhanced block scheme and they have uh left people left uh all the homeowners behind there are no businesses at all whatsoever on the scheme they're also victims of this problem as well too but you know ultimately uh government failure to regulation failed regulations caused this problem yeah um as well as well as well as foreign manufacturers not following the guidance that they were meant to do after 2004 after that after the date that's now on the doll record it's as you say it's it's quite good to see it in black and white because there's been a lot of ambiguity floating around social media in the last few weeks about this trying to mark people trying to muddy the water in terms of when standards were in place and when they were law so when you see the legislators stating the law in fact in the dolly record it's not insignificant as you say it's a very significant thing to have in place yeah okay uh we await on wednesday to see what we think on wednesday that the enhanced and inverted commerce scheme is going to be um uh is going to be live uh have you any anticipations there paul uh not even from a scientific point of view just as a concerned individual's point of view are you expecting anything i mean as a homeowner i've been waiting i've been waiting for this to open up now for quite a while so would we give evidence in the doll last year in june remember the previous later screen today and we were told that it was really important not to even have that day because they wanted to get this through to get people's phones fixed minutes almost a gear on that the scheme still hasn't opened and i actually looked at my own test results last night we get our house tested almost two years ago it was july we got our results back again the house has to be demolished so like we want to try and get our home fixed we can't do nothing because the scheme hasn't opened so like thousands of dollars we're all waiting with that baited breath to see what the details of it are we still don't know that um so but i i'm not privy to any information or any unsaid information or what are the what the details of our own and it's it's crazy too and it's when you get reminded of of of little parts of this this ongoing journey it takes some well how will i put it uh testicular fortitude uh to try and avoid pre-legislative scrutiny that's going to cost the taxpayer many many billions of euro being that you want to speed it up to get house fixes to say that this is tight like you know i mean you know i mean ultimately i think everybody wanted the right solution for homeowners and for business owners in in all the affected counties uh and it was it within the gift of the government they gave that and they haven't given it and one of the reasons has always been around the finances of it and it's been quite gallant the last few weeks uh listening to the government coming about they've got massive surpluses and they're going to have rainy day phones i mean if people's homes falling down around their ears it's not a rainy day a warrant of a rainy day phone then what is what what what does their plan for the all this surplus they get a fixed the defect of concrete blocks houses they get a fixed they could have fixed all the defective apartments in Dublin everything with that but they just didn't want to and now if we end up with a sort of half-baked scheme we still don't even know the details of uh coming out this week that is that is leaving loads of people behind leaving far too many people behind yeah all right we'll tease that out more as the week rolls on thanks though uh for just giving us the the the full picture of the significance of that uh that being recorded in that all yesterday uh professor paul paul donlop thank you very much indeed 08 660 25 000 whatsapp or text to that number watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com the 9 till noon show is brought to you by letter can you credit union digital loans now available apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account connelly's mg now open in colliney county slago the latest addition to the connelly motor group family find your perfect mg 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thanks for what they do often risking their lives to save homes and land the government can give millions to grey hand racing for example where is the justice there righty oh okay oh and are you gonna join me now or do you need a minute oh and oh and curry is muted is he i don't know okay i'll get back to oh and in a sec um i don't uh we'll get back to one in a moment uh because the audio isn't coming through there assisted suicide i'll read that one already uh that's great that's interesting but i wonder do you have to have a conviction to post your story there or will all these stories be posted anonymous well it is a space where people who have been the victims of crime do you have to have a conviction i would imagine not hi greg a friend of mine invited all his cousins and plus ones but one of the cousins brought her young son and caused ill feeling among other cousins who children's were not asked now was the cause the young cousin the plus one my nose is falling off me now i am i'm not i'm not a gossip really but did they the one of the people bring a son a young son as the plus one please let me know oh wait six sixty twenty five thousand greg i was down in casualty in letter candy university hospital it's a joke like it has to be highlighted people young and old are suffering it's unreal people that were there last night if you just listen to their stories it's a shame like there has to be something done these people that are on the hsc board why don't they do the right thing and resign this to go nobody seems to care can you please highlight this and of course we do we will and we do and i'm sorry that was your experience i really am greg assisted dying is the pandora's box of progressive policies that don't impact expenditure on the government painted in the progressive colors in the netherlands over seventy fives can get heart transplants holland being the metropolitan of choice isn't always good that god he had almost fantastic as a young man he's not just bombarding us all as bad thanks oh listen can i just say one thing young people on this program get a very good hearing they really do because and we platform where all their achievements be it awards or whatever they might be doing what about the roads being closed for putting up these lights how do people get to appointments well we don't know what level of disruption they'll be in and around letter candy as a result of as a result of the traffic lights being installed there right okay and other call to say is greg after all the lies we were told about abortion going to be only in rare circumstances thirty three thousand and counting aborted in arland since the referendum the three-day wait time being abolished why should we believe anything they say when introduced introducing euthanasia in arland i'm skipping a little bit to from one subject to another but we've had so many different comments on different things there will be three sets of traffic lights between the pole star roundabout and the bonnigie roundabout i can foresee tailbacks to manner roundabout yes indeed uh i uh i we have i'm gonna suck it and see we're gonna wait lots of people can't do anything for themselves it doesn't mean they should be euthanized it's not true that modern medicine can control pain not in my experience indeed and chronic pain there are thousands and thousands of people with chronic pain right is oan kori editor of air and travel magazine ready for us hello oan can you hear me oan are you there can you hear me okay i wonder right okay he's connecting to audio and we'll be able to hear me uh very shortly oan are you there i am indeed yay i feel like i've gone on holidays with you oan absolutely here i am and let's go it's great to have you with us thanks so much you're always really accommodating and i hope you realize it's appreciated oan and check out air and travel magazine as well right okay easy jet could be getting the go ahead to go head to head with ryan air which is always good news for us what's in the offering there oan well we know very little about this apart from the fact that easy jet have applied for slots at dodlin airport no real indication it's quite normal for airlines to apply for slots that they don't use ryan air are famous for applying for slots all over europe it leaves people like me guessing on what routes are they opening what routes are they're not opening they use very few of them but it does give an indication well in advance of for instance ryan air made a very big surprise move into albania uh last week and you know you'll get by watching the slots you can pick this up easy jet used to apply for slots almost every year in dodlin airport they haven't been doing so in recent years long ago there was an unmerciful dogfight between ryan air and easy jet we're talking about 2004 greg and they went to knock they went to shannon they went to cork they put on routes to gatwick ryan air trebled the number of routes they had on services they had on those routes and burned easy jet off very quickly go also famously went head to head with ryan air at dodlin no cost airline against no cost airline doesn't happen very often ryan air burned go off the route so the real assumption was that uh dodlin is a fortress nobody's going to come in there things might have changed a bit and one of the indications that things have changed is that easy jet they're very very strong in belfast international airport they have more than 80 percent of the flights there they they now have eight seven based aircraft i was going to say but they have another one this year and ryan air have gone in and competed on routes like calicante faro so it could well be this is retaliatory strike ryan air come into belfast international easy jet say well if you're going to come into our backyard we're going to go into yours there also is another um thing that there are underserved routes believe it or not out of dublin ryan air are making all sorts of noises about not bringing their new aircraft they've 34 their operation in dublin is huge they're 34 based aircraft they're saying we might be bringing some of the newer max seven three seven max into dublin playing hard to get with dublin airport and now easy jet have slots so we could see nothing very massive we could see a little bit for instance some of the ski routes are being rumored here in dublin this morning uh and we could see them going into the very strong routes that easy jet have in england they have a new base in bernie and to open next year leads bradford they're strong south end which nobody really flies to from dublin they're strong there so they could serve one of some of those you've got to remember easy jets brand isn't very well known in ireland uh it certainly it is in northern arna but less so in ireland and um you've got also the trunk routes that everybody can never get enough lights on like alicante like faro like malaga uh easy jet interestingly enough the slots are not by their uk operator but by their european airline since brexit they've had to have two separate licenses and the one the european license is held in austria so it does look like easy jet are playing with the idea of opening up dublin uh lots of they see lots of growth opportunities there they're going to be there for any incentives dublin airport put in for new routes because they can't be excluded from them and it would be very interesting to see if ryan air respond with the sort of very very strong um uh response they had all those years ago would go in dublin and easy jet in shannon knock and cork because that means we could have flights for on those routes for very very little money i do remember one euro flights to um in competition would go from dublin to edinburgh not sure that will happen because things have moved on a lot since then but it's a very interesting development question sure on when will we know if easy jet are uh hedging their bets saber rattling uh or when that we will actually know intent from them is it for this year is it for next year is it for the winter for the for the skiing of what have you when do you expect we'll actually know their intent usually when they have to sell the flights nobody likes trying to sell it announce a flight today and sell it tomorrow we have that situation with high nan july 27 they're restarting the dublin Beijing direct they give we're given very little we were given very little notion so a lot of those flights are going to be quite empty at the start and very good prices on them but we have uh sometimes we have very sudden announcements at the days of the internet particularly ryan air are very good at announcing a route and uh for you know just launching it a few weeks later they have the excess aircraft to do so what i would expect though greg is that during july august we're going to get notice of if there's going to be a winter flight from easy jet for instance the salisburg route or an austrian route to serve the ski market and then um around uh january february the summer schedules which start in march are confirmed so over the next few months there'll be a lot of number crunching the easy jet would be looking at what prices they can make on those uh flights what the what the uh expectation of the public and what the price points the public will pay is they'll also be looking at what aircraft they have available and they'll certainly uh be watching those trends but the people who'd be watching them even more avidly are ryan air because ryan air they're very uh they're headquartered dublin they regard dublin as their fortress they're backyard okay i won't keep you watch just a brief one on uh travel insurance uh because you know we could be facing and we have been facing strikes so when people need to make sure that the travel insurance they get covers them in that eventuality i'd imagine absolutely because flight disruption is not covered by your common or garden um travel policy there's 80 80 euro or so we pay for an annual policy now and it covers very basic stuff flight disruption tends not to be one of them it tends to be an add-on although some of the bigger companies are putting in flight disruption as part of it it tends to cost five or six euro extra it's very good because um they you know we're looking at air traffic control strikes and probably other strikes across europe the weather events we saw the disrupted gas week yesterday and some of the Spanish airports last week or thunderstorms and if you're missing a concert or a match or a very big family event the airline won't cover you for that they won't cover for your ticket whereas the flight insurance depending on the conditions will it's a good add-on to have for the summer flight insurance uh also has got better on the medical side they were excluding covid uh as covid receded to the past that seems to be covered by most policies but certainly over the last two or three years we've got a very valuable lesson greg that flight insurance is very important oh and thank you very much indeed i really appreciate your time today have a lovely uh day take care of yourself okay goodbye now another thing too is um and i'm no expert on this by the way is but when i was chatting to people about uh travel insurance i haven't been anywhere for quite some time people wait they book their holiday and then they get travel insurance before they depart if you get travel insurance get it when you're booking the holiday because then if anything happens between when you booked and your departure you could fall ill or anything uh you're covered because what happens is is that people book their holiday and then they wait before they're traveling a day or two or three before and then get their travel insurance get it when you get the booking because you never know what might come up or you never know what might need to be covered so book your travel insurance when you book 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and then once it's passed in parliament usually the council will go along with us there was one key reason why they went for this proposal because it means that no country would be losing a seat even though strictly speaking some should because their population has gone down whereas our population has gone up by 300 000 which it's entitled us to an extra seat but because it has to be agreed unanimously by the member states because felt that if we were taking seats off some member states so close to the election which is in june next year then we might can get the unanimity we require the council ever but now i think it should be easy to get the final result and i don't gain the extra seat and there's further speculation has been around for some time that it's actually the northwest constituency that would gain that seat is that your understanding of it that would be probably the most logical no nobody knows because the constitutional committee will have to be set up by the government and they could do anything as you know but i think logical thing would be to have an extra seat midlands northwest because we have five already in the south so obviously you're not going to go to six you can't go to six so it would be either Dublin or midlands northwest and i think some of the counties in the island south were already in midlands northwest for a long long time so it wouldn't be such a big change for them to switch and that would give you the balance that you're required to have in what they call the beautiful phrase degressive proportionality in other words it has to reflect the population so that there would be a certain minimum number of MEPs according to a certain number of the population yeah it's actually quite interesting to see some countries their population decreasing isn't it i mean the you know we have to be careful here on this planet that we ensure our survival all right shone listen thanks for your time great chat to you have a lovely day shone kelly 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Hey curlfriends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today I'm gonna give you an update on my hair growth challenge 2020. If you haven't joined, you can still join, it's not too late, but back in January I challenged all of my subscribers to join me as we try to grow our hair longer than we ever have before. So, I first created a hair growth or hair length check t-shirt. If you guys don't have one, make one. It's just a t-shirt, a sharpie and a ruler. Super easy, I made another video on how to make one if you wanna make that. I'll link it in the description box, but this is how I'm gonna be keeping track of how long my hair grows. So, in order to get my hair to grow, I wanted to try different things. One thing I wanted to try was using strictly products that are claiming to grow your hair. We have a million curly hair products, but not all of them actually say they're gonna help with hair growth. So, if it doesn't claim it, you can't be mad at it. But if it does, we're gonna test it. Now, this video is not sponsored. I am on the Curlsmith PR list, so I get sent products all the time, but it's up to me if I wanna actually use them or even make a video on them. And I wanted this to be a completely unbiased video, even though it wouldn't be anyways, but some of y'all got trust issues. But I'm showing you real results. If my hair doesn't grow, you see it on the t-shirt. There's no lying in this. But I am using their Scout products. I did a whole video on these. If you guys wanna check that out. Step one, two, and three, their pre-slip primer, their cleanser, and their conditioner. I love step one, because it has fermented rice water in it, which is known to help with hair growth. So, in February, I really started pumping up with these products to see what that would do. But now, I'm taking things to the next level, and I actually tried the Curlsmith Ultimate Lengths 30 Day Therapy. These are hair growth vitamins, basically. So, they look like this. They're like, you know, average Advil size. They're gel capsules, so they go down easy. And there's four of them in here. And this will last you 30 days. Now, I personally have so many hair growth vitamins and pills, but I've never taken them before. Because I've been scared. Because a lot of hair growth vitamins have biotin, and too much biotin could make you break out.  And I have very acne-prone skin, and I just was not gonna risk breaking out. I personally rather have short hair and good skin than long hair and cystic acne. So, I just literally never used any of them. But, I'm now going to give these a try. I wanted to start with Curlsmith, because they're known to have very good natural ingredients. I am breastfeeding my baby, so I have to be very mindful of what I'm intaking. I asked my doctor if it was safe to take them, and she said yes. But it has no lactose, no preservative, no artificial sweeteners, it's hormone-free, there's no soy, there's no nuts, no GMOs, and it's gluten-free, so I wanted to give it a try. And I'm happy to say that after 30 days of taking these, let me show you guys, I threw away one of the packs, but, you know, they're empty. I actually took them for 30 days. My skin is still clear. Oh! Now, that was risky, because, one, I'm postpartum now, so I think once you have the baby, you're supposed to, like, lose that glow, and I know if it was gonna be replaced with acne. We're in quarantine right now, so I can't even see my esthetician. This is a very risky time to be messing with my skin. But fortunately, I have zero breakouts right now. So that is very, very key for me. But it also has keratin, biotin, collagen, goji fruit. Like, there's a lot of good things in here. It's supposed to make thicker, fuller, longer-looking hair. So now let me show you my progress via pictures. In January when I started, I was on my last month of pregnancy and not much got done in general, but especially in the hair growth department that month. I was drinking a lot of water and I still deep conditioned every week, but when I took a picture in February, I noticed that my hair actually didn't grow at all. It was right around that 14th line and that was just a normal, I guess, hair growth when I don't really do much extra. But then, February, I started using the Curlsmith product, step one, two, and three, to wash and cleanse my hair. And then March 3rd is when I started taking these vitamins. And when I took my picture, my progress picture on March 15th, this is where my hair was. So now I'm all the way down to line 16. So there's already a huge difference from me not really doing much January to February, then from February to March, just using better products that are claiming to have hair growth ingredients and starting these hair growth vitamins. I did see a change. So now let's check from March to now. This picture was taken March 15th and now today is April 14th. So another good month, 15 more days of using these vitamins. And when I take a good look, I don't know if there's a huge difference. I think I'm still right around the line of 16. Here's the tricky thing about measuring hair growth for me, because I have layers in my hair. So I'm trying to be more mindful to keep in mind all the different lengths of my hair, including my bangs, which are definitely very grown out. So do I think that these products work? Yeah, I do. And I do want to continue to use them. Do I see a super dramatic, super magical potion that makes you like Rapunzel overnight? No. But I do think I'm getting a realistic hair growth result from using them. But I'm now gonna take it to a whole new level by adding more hair growth products by Curlsmith. I think what I'm gonna do is try like one brand at a time and I'm starting off with Curlsmith. I might switch it up to a different brand in a month or two. Feel free to leave your suggestions on what brand you want me to try next. But I'm gonna be adding the Curlsmith Scalp stimulating booster and the full length density elixir. So this plus this plus the pills might just make me Rapunzel overnight. Feel free to try and buy whatever you can afford and whatever you want to use. But I'm gonna try using all of them at the same time. So let's start off with the Scalp stimulating booster. And it says apply directly to your scalp once daily to a dry scalp. Every morning would be ideal. Massage it evenly and throughout the scalp until you feel the booster has been absorbed. Do not wash your hair after application for best results used for at least three months together with the full length elixir. So that's what I wanna do to get the best results. So I'm gonna have to use this on my refresh days when my scalp is dry and I'm probably gonna have to skip using it on my wash days because you don't wanna put it in and then rinse it out. And then at night time, I'm gonna grab the full length density elixir. This is for hair that looks thicker, denser, fuller and healthier. I love that it has castor oil, cedar wood, psalma, green tea, soybean, lavender, witch hazel, thyme, clover and pea sprout. And then it has all these, like those are like the nature ingredients. And then it has these science ingredients which I really can't pronounce. So I apply this one at night. Apply a few drops once daily. Ideally a bedtime to dry scalp once again. Massage onto the scalp thoroughly. Do not wash hair after application used for three months. Best with the stimulating booster. So I don't know about you, but I'm excited to start trying all three of these. I don't have anything to say about these yet. Well, actually let me open them for you. This is the booster. The booster smells like kind of strong. I mean, it has a lot of natural essential like oils in here. So it says the potent blend. It's pretty potent. It kind of smells like a clone. It has like a strong gusto to it. And then the density elixir. Hmm, I don't really smell anything. So that's good. And that's the main thing. Like I know you could just use natural oils like maybe Jamaican black castor oil rub it on your edges. You might get some hair growth. But when things are like super greasy or the smell is really bad, it kind of turns me off and I just don't want to use it. So I already like the elixir even more than the booster because it doesn't have a strong scent or any scent that I can smell. And I've used this before and it's not greasy. I don't have an opinion on it yet because I fell off. I used it for like a week or so non-consistently. So that's not a fair review.  I have a brand new box of pills and we're going to see how they all do. I'm already 30 days in. If you guys want to join me, feel free to. These are all sold at Ulta. Let me pull up the pricing for y'all so I can give you accurate information. The Ultimate Lengths 30 Day Therapy Hair Growth Vitamins are $29.99. Scop Stimulating Booster is $27. And what else? The Full Length Density Elixir is $39. So this little elixir is actually the most expensive out of the three. These are very high prices but you're getting a very organic blend of natural ingredients.  It is what it is. But the fact that this one is the most expensive, I wonder if this is the most important one. Now, obviously I don't like doing any of my journeys alone. I want you guys to join me but feel free to do whatever hair growth thing you want to do this month. But if you do want to join me and try the hair growth vitamins or maybe the elixir or the scout booster, these are available at Ulta. If you try them, write me, take pictures and let me know which one you're using, let me know your hair type and we could see how well it works for you. I would love to keep track with you guys and include your photos in my next update videos so we can see how well these products work on other hair types as well. So my overall conclusion is, did the 30 day therapy work? I think it did. I did see a difference between my February and April. I don't know if it made a crazy result within 30 days but I do think it is working and I want to keep using them, especially because it did not break out my skin. So because these both say to use for at least three months, I might continue to use these for three months, at least. Unless I try something else, who knows? If you enjoyed this little update, make sure to give me a thumbs up and subscribe. I post new videos every week. You also should follow me on Instagram at MsBiancarinae. That way you can get quicker updates in my Instagram story. I'm also on Twitter and Snapchat and TikTok all at MsBiancarinae. And please send me your photos so we can keep track of how well these products work on your hair. I would love to feature you in one of my next videos if you guys have good or bad results. We want to see it all. We're keeping it really real. I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching Biancarinae today.


My name is Ben Wilding, I'm Managing Director of Cameron Wilding Ltd, a Drupal Agency based in London, and also one of the co-founders of Drupal Camp London and one of the co-organisers for the first four years. So community-wise, we've always been heavily involved as an organisation, and that's really the only reason that Drupal works is the community. Myself, not being particularly technical, I always love the value out of the community and to be able to be involved with that, so to find a route to do that rather than going to a coding sprint which I wouldn't be too much helping. I always worked on the community side of things, so organising events principally. So we certainly helped out with the Drupal Camp London in the founding years and for the first four years. And then Cameron Wilding have also organised the Drupal beer and chats for about eight years in total and the Drupal show and tells for around five years I believe. So we were organising all of that and helping with all of that up to about a year ago and it was just a lot of work at the end of the day and I've got a day job of running a digital agency too. So whilst it was a lot of fun and I highly enjoyed the experience, it was just kind of time to take a bit of a step back and let some other people step in and take over. And I think one of the beauties has been really seeing how the Drupal Camp London team have just continued and it's been allowed to grow and flourish with various people moving on from the organising committee and new people coming in and seeing that the leadership of the Drupal Camp London team are already preemptively realising that some of them want to be moving on so they're starting to train up a new pool of people that will be able to take over. So the quality of the people surrounding the project of Drupal Camp London has been, I'm really proud to see it and have been part of that and to know that it's going to hopefully last for many years to come because they're preemptively thinking ahead, which is fantastic. Another thing that I think has been really fantastic is the fact that we couldn't, because of work commitments, et cetera, continue to do the same level of commitment to the Drupal community events that we've done for many years, seeing that the community had come to me and talked to me about taking on the mantle of continuing on with the Drupal Show and Tells. So it's almost a year to date that we probably did the last Drupal Show and Tell and a number of people have worked together and from the end of March they're restarting with Manifesto hosting, Cancer Research UK and Christian Aid. So there are three months worth of Drupal Show and Tells already lined up and it's fantastic to see that that's taking a life of its own after us having done all of the organising. So now the community are really coming together to help continue that, which many people found a really valuable event in the London community. A personal message would be to the people continuing on with these projects that I'm very proud to have been part of that and I'm really excited to see how the community is continuing that on and I'll continue to support in any way I can, but I'm really enjoying at the moment just paying for my Drupal Camp ticket and turning up and not being knackered before it's even started.