When I hit 50 and realised that there must be more to life than being a stay at home mum, a role I'd enjoyed for the previous dozen or so years but turning 50 seemed like the right time for a change and a challenge. I'd had a career with Virgin Megastores and Cinemas, but prior to that I'd worked in record shops, namely Richard's Records in Canterbury and Beggars Banquet in Kingston, and looked back at those days as the most enjoyable of my working years. Chesterfield had recently lost its two record/music shops - Hudsons and HMV - and so I found myself living in a town with nowhere at all to buy records or CDs. Something had to be done about it, and that's why I opened Tallbird Records, it was an act of extreme selflessness and bravery on my part obviously - ! But seriously, who doesn't want to own and work in a record shop? It's the best job in the world (most of the time).
