by Dee | Jun 28, 2016 | Fashion, Featured, General, GloWellness
Want some light relief from the doom and gloom of recent events – a little retail therapy always does the trick.
You can of course make grab some brilliant bargains from the luxury of your own home.
The river island website have some fab Orange Gladiator Sandals at only £12 reduced from £30 and a gorgeous Black Leather lace tote handbag down from £40 to £20.
At www.boohoo.com grab this Boutique Asia Lace Side Cutwork Fitted Dress which is now a fab grab at only £8 reduced from £25 and a stunning Eloise 3 piece co-ord now £18 from £30.
If you are prepared to face the great outdoors sales terrain, then you would be well to heed an excellent tip, I picked up from the Lorraine Kelly Show today, and I have to agree with Lorraine is the best bit of shopping advice I have received all year.
To avoid endless queues for the changing room, just go wearing jeggings and a thin camisole, with a jumper thrown over if it is chilly outside, and then you can try items on the spot without fighting for a cubicle.
In finality then, if you are going to visit in person, have a look at the little red dress in Zara, now only £25.99 and the Miss Selfridge jumpsuit reduced down from £55 to £25.
Happy hunting everybody. I am feeling better already.
by Dee | Jun 24, 2016 | Featured, General
As a vibrant newsy trending Channel, Glotime.tv has always taken an impassive stance in political and current affairs to give our readers the chance to reflect independently with the already aggressive campaigns around the future of our Country.
But the die has been cast and the effect of the Leave victory is sending shock waves throughout the Nation and indeed the Stock Exchange.
As someone who voted to Remain, I am now questioning the aftermath of this astonishing outcome and what repercussions are in store for our future.
Even within our own domain, we have experienced some of us who have voted to leave Europe and indeed there has been great division within the government and indeed the UK.
I personally voted to remain because I support human rights, peace alliances, education, the arts, and the environmental work of the EU. Because I believe a post-colonial, and economically developed Britain has a global and historical responsibility to participate in a more helpful discussion on the subjects of refugees and immigration.
It was really unnerving to see the huge coverage that Farage was afforded across the media as the votes were being counted. A politician whose opinions on race and immigration reflect a rather intolerant stance on areas of huge importance.
As we watched the resignation of David Cameron, can we have confidence in his promise of a steady transition of leaving the EU, after all the hype in the remain campaign around the dangers of supporting the Brexit vote.
We all agree that the UK is a great country, but is standing alone the answer in this turbulent environment of instability. Is it going to set us back in gaining our country but losing our grip on the rest of the World.
Only time will tell as we experience the repercussions of change, and see how far we can go in standing alone.
“No initial change in circumstances, no initial change in the way we travel” says Cameron, but how can we trust the politicians
by Dee | Jun 13, 2016 | Featured, General, GloWellness
As we are in the thick of the big decision of whether to stay in or get out and stand alone as a Nation, a rather disturbing piece of news has landed on our doorstep.
We have always been the first as a Country to boast of our forward thinking attitudes and promising advances toward equal gender parenting. But it may be a shock to discover that the UK are way down the chain with hands on Dads compared to the rest of Europe.
What does it mean to be a ‘new’ Dad? I asked a number of young parents, some of whom are stay at home Dads, juggling their parenting skills with running a business, or as their partner is the bread winner.
One young Dad told me ‘it was tough at first as I didn’t feel equipped to change nappies and give my son his night feed – I felt anxious and inadequate, but it was only time that has given me the confidence and liaising with other parents to know that I was doing well, as nobody teaches you to be a good parent’. I could have been having the same conversation with a new Mum, the content and sentiment are the same. As he and other hands on Dads admitted, there are no degrees or recognised courses in parenthood, and that goes for both men and women everywhere.
Another slightly older Dad admitted that at first when he and his partner decided to go for the shift of parenting, he was aware of his own judgemental attitude of the past with the ‘house husband’, but admitted that the rewards had been immense, and he was reaping the benefit with his two daughters being grounded and doing well at school because of his dedication as a Dad.
Another survey shows that kids with Dads who are involved with a child’s upbringing are more likely to produce offspring who do well in life and don’t falter when leaving school or uni.
It is also true that some Dads earn more money as there is still a gender imbalance regarding salaries (another topic!) and prefer to work, and that can come with some guilt, not being there at Sports Day or sometimes in the every day. But there is still time for involvement when home, and as long as the absence isn’t through lack of interest or engagement, the parenting skills can kick in at any time, are still very important.
A really interesting radio programme on LBC recently covered this very subject, and one caller was adamant that woman should remain in the home, bare foot in the kitchen and hands on with the kids. You could hear the frustration in the presenter’s voice as he responded in disbelief to the man’s rantings, which culminated in the caller saying that role reversal of this nature was unthinkable.
There are many families across the country who have opted for binary parenting or for the Dad to lead in the day to day running of the home and spending time with the kids. But we still have the dinosaurs who insist that nurturing of young ones should fall with the Mother.
But as the same very amusing and intelligent presenter stated as he summed up his conversations – ‘Dinosaurs were great in their day, but eventually became extinct.’ In this case we really hope that to be the case.
Don’t forget Father’s Day this coming Sunday on the 19th June
