“Are you going anywhere nice?” “Got any holidays planned?” “Have you heard about…” insert gossip here.

Yes, a trip to the hairdressers is normally layered with chitchat, noise of other customers, commercial radio blasting through the speakers and of course the sound cutting, snipping and drying.

At one Yorkshire hairdressers’ you can ask for a silent appointment in ‘The Quiet Room’ upstairs - where you can even have the mirror covered up.

We sent one of our roving reporters, Sophie Mei Lan Malin, to experience The Quiet Room inside Opal Hair Salon in Ossett.