by Jackie Brooks | Sep 13, 2018 | Featured, GloKitchen
Your offspring or grandchild is off to University? Surely not. When did that happen? They have only just started school! But it is true, and they are leaving home – well at least for the time being, they are going to be independent, and feeding themselves.
Your greatest fear is that they will spend all of their precious student loan on takeaways, or not eat at all. But the truth is you should give them more credit, and back it up with some really useful tips on food and cooking.
You could help by advising them to stock up with with the basics like pasta, rice, potatoes, vegetables and dried quinoa and plenty of tins of baked beans and tins of tuna. Also a good idea to fill their freezer with vegetables, oven fries and pitta bread.
A quick lesson in the life span of meats and the ‘how to, or not’ of reheating food, without sounding too patronizing. I remember my first student shared accommodation where we almost got food poisoning when one of the students reheated chicken from the day before. I don’t mean to scare you, but it has to be said.
Encourage them to enjoy cooking meals to share with other students, as this will also earn them brownie points and help them to integrate.
Explain how easy it is to freeze food and give them some containers or freezer bags to make sure they have the option.
Theming the meals is also good and this can easily be done with the help of some tasty spice ingredients eg https://www.spicentice.com/ meal kits, which are both cost effective and healthy. Incidentally, this family run company started when their son was at University and they would send him home made spices to ensure he ate at all. It worked, as he is now married with kids of his own. See some of their quick and easy recipes, which could get your young adult through their entire time at University or College.
This will also encourage the ‘bonding’ experience of cultures and experimentation with food, as well as good old fashioned nutrition.
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by Glotime | Sep 12, 2018 | EVENTS, Featured
A particularly moving and evocative exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, focuses on gender identity and politics, and how we have evolved over the past 50 years.
The first ‘drag’ act was actually recorded as far back as 1870, but dates back even further, and they are now highly regarded works of art with the ‘drag’ artists perfecting their presentations with enthralling picturesque performances of ingenuity.
‘This free exhibition features the work of more than 30 artists who have used drag to explore or question identity, gender, class and politics, from the 1960s to the present day.
Alongside key figures such as Pierre Molinier, VALIE EXPORT, Robert Mapplethorpe and Cindy Sherman, the exhibition also includes self-portraits by a younger generation of contemporary artists who have recently embraced drag as an art form, including Adam Christensen and Victoria Sin.
Rather than offering a linear or chronological narrative, this exhibition aims to present a multitude of voices that explore cultural shifts of the past 50 years and touch on topics that include the 1980s AIDS crisis and post-colonial theory.
Focused on photography but spanning a variety of other media, DRAG is accompanied by a programme of tours led by drag performers.
Featured artists at the exhibition include
Eleanor Antin, Oreet Ashery, Renate Bertlmann, Leigh Bowery, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Luciano Castelli, Adam Christensen, Francesco Copello, Jimmy DeSana, Rose English, VALIE EXPORT, Samuel Fosso, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ann Hirsch, David Hoyle, Michel Journiac, Birgit Jürgenssen, Paul Kindersley, Suzy Lake, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ana Mendieta, Pierre Molinier, Tony Morgan, Hunter Reynolds, Cindy Sherman, Victoria Sin, Jo Spence, Sturtevant, Ulay, Martha Wilson, David Wojnarowicz & Jesse Hultberg, Ming Wong and Cerith Wyn Evans.
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/hayward-gallery-art/drag-self-portraits-and-body-politics
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by Dee | Sep 10, 2018 | Featured, GloWellness
A wise philosopher once told me that to find true love you must accept that it comes with great loss – of yourself, your identity and ultimately of the person you love – as one of you will ultimately depart this earth before the other – which is a scary prospect in itself. This is why many of us avoid the great love, as it can be too difficult to manage. Although some have conquered the fear of falling in love.
“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.” Alice Walker
But what if you could survive the agony and the ecstasy and embrace the anxiety that comes with finding the partner of your dreams. Do you believe you deserve the perfect relationship – because the first person you should fall in love with is yourself.
I recently met a brilliantly ‘switched on’ writer and relationship expert, Trelawney Kerrigan, who has incorporated all of her experience and knowledge on the subject in a book entitled ‘Be the Woman He Falls for Not the Girl He Sleeps With’ which could also apply to men as well as women, as it is all about believing you are good enough for an equal loving relationship.
The book gives some insightful personal experiences, meditation, visualisation and guidance so that we can move forward and avoid those toxic relationships, and dangerous liaisons that can ruin your life.
Love is also not restricted to how old we are or if we have loved before, as we can find great love at any age, and it is never too late to fall in love or find an amazing partner.
‘So, love – when you find it – is something to nurture and treasure. But here’s the thing – being open to finding love on the basis of love alone, ie forgetting about need, social status, financial security, family/society expectations – is a rare human quality. Many of us go under from the pressure of our insecurities and find ourselves ‘settling’. Finding great love takes courage, confidence and unbreakable belief in your own right to happiness.’ Trelawney Kerrigan
It is all the pitfalls that we are familiar with and seem to dominate our lives in love, but somehow Trelawney manages to turn them round and make them insignificant and powerless, so that we can pave the way for our future – to begin our own journey and discover our passage to true love.
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.” Henry Miller
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trelawney-Kerrigan/e/B00CIZRR9C
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