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Visit our website for timetable of classes - www.dancehousestudios.com How to look great in glasses Style Guru Natalie Svickle visits the city in October to reveal the trade secrets used by top celebrities to look great in glasses. We look at tips on how to pick the right glasses for your face shape to give you a taster of the insider fashion tips normally reserved for the rich and famous.
Natalie will be showcasing the entire Wil- narrow, wear glasses which are slightly liam Morris Eyewear collection in a free thinner than the broadest part of your anniversary event open to everyone in face as this will accentuate the breadth of Curtis Opticians Carlisle Road to celebrate your face giving you a less extreme verti- the fact that Curtis Opticians have served cal look. If you have thick lenses because the city for over 85 years. Natalie says she of your prescription, avoid heavy makeup will be demonstrating a wider than usual around your eyes as the lenses empha- range including items normally only seen sise and distort your features. at trade shows. She intends to show how How to identify your face glasses, more than any other single ac- cessory, can transform the fashion look of shape people of all ages from children to the re- The first thing to do is to sit in front of a tired. With some of the frames on display mirror and pull your hair back from your as low as £79 she hopes to demonstrate face. Looking straight ahead, draw the that being fashionable with eyewear is outline of your face in the mirror using less about money and more about think- a bar of soap to trace along the hairline, ing through the personality and style you around the cheeks and along the con- Natalie Svickle Style Consultant -Public style want to project and recognising how to tours of the chin. This will tell you wheth- demonstration in October emphasise your best features. She has er your face shape is square, oval, heart already trained Curtis staff to advise on shaped or oblong. Then just refer to the advice for each shape below. If you want Natalie is well known in Dublin fashion circles as the founder of Style Transforma- image transformation so she expects that there will be plenty of back up support for a personal session with Natalie when she tion, an innovative Dublin-based personal styling school started in 2009. For almost anyone who wants to follow up on the is in the North West just ring a decade Natalie has assisted people all over the UK and Ireland in transforming special offers she has arranged for those Curtis Opticians on 028 (71) 26 2652 their image and self-confidence by thinking through their hair, clothes and make up who come to the celebration. regimes. Now she has turned her attention to glasses. Her clients range from indi- viduals to large companies and she regularly appears on the media or with clients in Start yourself on your the top fashion shops of London and Dublin personally showing them how to really shop! rawford own style transformation fitness Although Natalie intends to cover six key Tel: (028) 7127 9657 things to consider when choosing glass- es (hair, eyes, age, facial features, purpose email: [email protected] and personal style) we will just look at fa- www.crawford-fitness.co.uk cial features to get an idea of how to go rawford about finding your ideal eyewear. First principles fitness Whatever frames you choose, the top rim If it hurts you’re doing it right! should never be above your eyebrows and the bottom rims should never touch your cheeks. As far as the frame style is •Cardio Room concerned you should choose a shape that is opposite to the shape of your face. •Free weights/Resistance Area For example a square or round face is best set off by angular or geometric frames. •Sports Supplements On a square face where the forehead and Get an Instant Facelift chin are wide, round glasses soften up •Sports Massage the face and make it look thinner. Square Get a face lift from your glasses frames by angles on a round face make it look thin- choosing narrow glasses with upswept ner and longer. Glasses should be at least corners and a vividly coloured top bar. •Personal Training as wide as the broadest part of your face This emphasises high cheekbones and to make it look narrower if you have a distracts attention from the jawbone and Crawford Fitness, 19 Crawford Square, Derry BT48 7HR square or round face. However, if you chin making the jaw look slimmer. have an oblong face which is long and
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Natalie Svikle 8 Carlisle Road, Derry/Londonderry www.curtisopticians.com Tel: (028) 7126 2652 Download 200,000+ brand logos in vector format for free http://www.logoeps.com/ Oval Oval Faced Angelina Jolie – shorten the face with deep lenses and angular squares to give definition to round shape Oval: chin slightly narrower than the forehead. High cheek bones. Objective: Frames should aim to keep the natural balance of the face • Frames as wide as or wider than the widest part of the face framed • Avoid low swooping temples which will unbalance the face. • Try square, angular and geometric shapes to add angles to soft curves in Avoid: • Oval faces have small features – don’t overwhelm with large frames Famous people: Beyoncé, Julia Roberts. style Heart Shaped Johnny Depp – notice rounding of frames to soften the forehead and frames deep and broad below the eye line to offset narrow chin. Heart Heart: Wide forehead and high cheekbones with a narrow chin.. Objective: Not to accentuate the forehead - offset a narrow chin. • This means rimless glasses or certainly an inconspicuous colour on the top of your frames. • Frames should be slightly broad below the eye line to broaden the look of the chin • Frames with low set temples to draw attention down • Narrow round frames that soften the forehead Avoid: • Top heavy frames that draw attention upwards • Decorative temples that make a broad face look broader Famous people: Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry, Johnny Depp
Oblong Meryl Streep - note straight bottom lenses for horizontal effect and thick temples to shorten the face. Frame slightly nar- rower than the face to accentuate width. Oblong: Face longer than it is wide, with narrow chin and cheeks and a large forehead. Angular features with high cheekbones. Longer Oblong nose and tall forehead. Objective: to make the face broader and shorter • Frame width should be slightly narrower than the face to accentuate the width of the face; • Frame should be deeper than it is wide to shorten the face; • Temple hinges should connect to the lenses lower down than eye level to shorten the face; • Temples with strong decorative designs also shorten the face; • Temples should be broad to shorten the face; • Choose frames with strong horizontal lines to broaden the face
Avoid: • Small frames that are out of proportion; • Short frames that accentuate face length Famous people: Denzel Washington, Sara Jessica Parker
Round faced Marilyn Munroe – angular glasses give shape to face and upward sweeping lenses Round emphasise cheekbones. Round: Full cheekbones, few angles and width and length in similar proportions Objective: Frames should be selected to make the face look thinner and longer • Frames should be wider than they are deep – for example, rectangular frames • Temple hinges above eye level help to lengthen the face • Get angular frames to create definition and sharpen facial features •Upsweeping frames that draw attention to the top of the face Avoid: • Very round Frames that accentuate the roundness of your face. Famous people: Christina Ricci, Drew Barrymore, Kate Winslett, Elijah Wood, Jack Black
Square faced Brad Pitt – curve on bottom of lenses to distract from square jawline (note how facial hair is grown to complete imaginary downward triangle formed by glasses and beard carefully tinted at the point of the triangle to slim the face). Temple hinges meet frame on top to accentuate length of face Square Square: Broad forehead and strong jaw line, as well as a wide chin and cheekbones all of equal proportion Objective: Make the face longer and soften the angles • Frames wider than the widest part of the face and of a strong horizontal design • Avoid rims that are flat along the bottom as this mirrors and accentuates the jaw line. Instead a slightly curved rim distracts from the chin. • Hinges above the eye line to lengthen the face. • Try oval and round frames to break the square look
Avoid: • Geometric and square frames that accentuate your angular face. • Hinges that connect lower down the frame shortening the face or strong colour accents on the bottom of the frame which draw attention to your square chin Famous people: Demi Moore, Sandra Bullock, Brad Pitt
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Would you spot a heart attack?
The life of someone you love could depend on it
We all know about the “Movie Heart Attack” where someone gets a sudden and intense pain in their chest and collapses clutching their heart. However, most heart attacks start slowly, with mild pain or discomfort and often people wait too long before getting help because they are not sure what is happening. The symptoms can appear weeks before the main heart attack and if they are recognised in time, medical assistance could help avoid a damaging heart attack altogether.
The four main things to look for What to do if you suspect a heart 1. Uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the centre of your chest. It often feels like having a heavy object being placed on your chest. It lasts attack more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back. The European Society of Cardiology recommends the following:
2. Pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach. Call for immediate help if:
3. Shortness of breath with or without chest discomfort. • You have persistent chest pain that is not relieved by nitroglycerin. Always consult a doctor before taking any medicine. 4. Other signs such as breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea or light-headedness • Severe and persistent shortness of breath What causes a heart attack? • Fainting Heart attacks are caused by the arteries to the heart narrowing If you have any of these signs, don’t wait more than five minutes before because of fatty (plaque) build up over time. A blocked artery calling for help. Call 999 and get to a hospital right away. There is nothing can damage the heart muscle by starving it of oxygen. to be embarrassed about, the hospital is there to deal with this kind of thing and it is better to be safe than sorry. It would be a tragedy for your family if a potentially preventable heart attack happened because you were too shy Differences between Men and Women or did not want to cause a fuss.
As with men, women’s most common heart attack symptom is chest pain or Consult your doctor or nurse as soon as possible if you experience the discomfort. However, women are somewhat more likely than men to experience following: some of the other common symptoms, particularly shortness of breath, nausea/ vomiting, and back or jaw pain. According to a report published in Circulation: • Increasing shortness of breath and tolerating less and less activity Journal of the American Heart Institute, 95% of women who’ve had heart attacks reported experiencing symptoms in the weeks and month before the attack. • Consistently awakening short of breath
• Needing more pillows to sleep comfortably
• Rapid heart rate or worsening palpitations Discuss with your doctor or nurse: • Rapid weight gain of more than 2 kilos (3 lbs.) in three days
• Progressive swelling or pain in the abdomen
• Increasing swelling of the legs or ankles
• Worsening dizziness
• Loss of appetite/nausea
• Increasing fatigue
If you think someone is having a heart attack: • Worsening cough
• Call 999 immediately
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Zapit Magazine [Issue 4].indd 6 24/09/2013 10:21 SMOOTHSMOOTH OPERATORSOPERATORS Hydrocarbon Drycleaning Specialists Safer, Softer, Brighter, Better. Tel: (028) 7136 0529 8 Sackville St, Derry, BT48 7BQ www.laundryservicederry.co.uk M. McLaughlin & Sons Ltd Hardware celebrates 100 Years in business Founding partners With Multinational retail firms moving into the city over the last thirty James McLaughlin years it is heartening to know that some local family firms have not only standing on left and survived the competition but have prospered and grown. The River Inn in Bobby O’Donnell seated left Shipquay Street has been a public house since before the siege and Aus- tin’s Department Store, which has been around since 1830, is reputedly the oldest independently owned department store in the world. However, a hardware store in William Street has recently celebrated its one hundredth year of existence as a family firm.
M. McLaughlin and Sons Ltd in 40-44 William Street was rioting of the troubles throughout the sixties and seventies. started under the name of McLaughlin and O’Donnell in Before the current building was erected, the firm operated 1913 at 75 William St by James McLaughlin and his then from a Portacabin on the site when the previous structure partner Bobby O’Donnell. Sometime before 1925 the part- was burned. Even today, the shop has customers who have nership ended and James traded on changing the firm loyally been coming back for sixty years through thick and name to McLaughlin and McLaughlin. Upon James’s death thin. Perhaps it is something to do with the founder James’s in 1957 the business was taken over by his sons and daugh- original maxim that McLaughlin’s could get a customer any- ters Michael, Jim, Margaret and for a time Kathleen be- thing from “a needle to an anchor”. That is just a simple way fore she emigrated from Derry to Australia. Today James’s of saying that a business dedicated to giving the customers three grandsons, Michael’s sons, Seamus, Dessie and Liam what they want need have no worries about customer loy- McLaughlin continue the thriving business selling hardware, alty. With multi-national retailers such as Budget D.I.Y. go- kitchenware, security goods and nursery goods amongst ing out of business in the town perhaps competitors should other things. take heed of the homespun wisdom of the wise founder James McLaughlin that, more than size or image, the satis- It was not always plain sailing though. The business has sol- faction of the customer is the key to a long and prosperous diered on through two world wars and many recessions and business life.. was burned or bombed at least five times during the trou- bles. The corner of William Street and Rossville Street where they are located was the epicentre of some of the worst
The Original Store at 75 William St – now a car park
The original store Founder James with his wife (Margaret with St Eugene’s (Nee) McCauley from Moville) around Cathedral in the ghlins Hard 1936 with their children Kathleen, Lau wa background c re • Hardware
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Events On Nearly Every Day Event Type Start Date End Date Time Event Venue Exhibition 05/09/2013 26/10/2013 see programme The Glass Album Tower Museum Exhibition 16/09/2013 30/10/2013 9.30am - 10.30pm St Columba Photographic Exhibition The Playhouse Exhibition 27/09/2013 05/10/2013 see programme Julian Friers – ‘Rhythm and Hues’ The London St Gallery Exhibition 27/09/2013 04/01/2014 Willie Doherty UNSEEN City Factory Gallery Dance 27/09/2013 06/10/2013 see programme Without – Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company Echo Echo Dance and Movement Studios Exhibition 27/09/2013 31/12/2013 8:00 am – 8:00 pm Invisible Lives Citywide Exhibition 27/09/2013 31/12/2013 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Story of the prisons exhibition Gasyard heritage centre Exhibition 27/09/2013 24/12/2013 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Solo Exhibition By Andrew Glenn Cowley Cooper Fine Art Exhibition 27/09/2013 31/12/2013 10:00 am – 5:00 pm The Shirt Factory City Factory Festival 27/09/2013 05/10/2013 see programme Rock Metal Fest Various locations around city Exhibition 27/09/2103 31/12/2013 8:45 pm – 9:45 pm The History of Derry in 100 Objects Guildhall Exhibition 27/09/2013 24/12/2013 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Columba to Conflict (Bogside history) Gasyard heritage centre Dance 28/09/2013 23/11/2013 see programme Academy of Irish Dance Waterside Theatre Exhibition 30/09/2013 31/12/2013 9:30 am – 9:00 pm Open the Shutters – Photography Exhibition Nerve Centre Children/Young 01/10/2013 05/10/2013 see programme Peek-a-Book! Children’s Literature Festival Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Festival 01/10/2013 31/10/2013 see programme Voices Now Various Locations Around The City Arts &Culture 01/10/2013 31/10/2013 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Fulgurite Chamber Void Gallery Comedy 02/10/2013 08/10/2013 8:00 PM Bunny’s Vendetta The Glassworks Exhibition 04/10/2013 26/10/2013 11:00 am – 4:00 pm Parallel Visions Gordon Gallery Sport 05/10/2013 27/10/2013 1pm British Gymnastics GymFusion Millennium Forum Sport 12/10/2013 25/10/2013 see programme Derry City Football Club Match The Brandywell Stadium Exhibition 23/10/2013 05/01/2014 see programme The Turner Prize Ebrington Festival 29/10/2013 02/11/2013 see programme Banks of the Foyle Hallowe’en Carnival Various Locations Around The Cit Exhibition 09/11/2013 21/12/2013 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Santiago Sierra Void Gallery Theatre 12/11/2013 16/11/2013 8:00 PM The Clearing The Playhouse Theatre Events Through September 2013
Event Type Date Time Event Venue Theatre 27/09/2013 see programme By Mr. Farquhar North West Regional College Theatre 27/09/2013 8:00 PM By Mr. Farquhar Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Conference 27/09/2013 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Two Windows On The World Conference Tower Hotel Sport 27/09/2103 see programme Senior Cup Final Eglinton Cricket Club Theatre 28/09/2013 see programme By Mr. Farquhar North West Regional College Theatre 28/09/2013 8:00 PM By Mr. Farquhar Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Conference 28/09/2013 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Two Windows On The World Conference Tower Hotel Conference 28/09/2013 11:30 am – 4:00 pm The Beekeepers Gathering & Honey Show The Guildhall Festival 28/09/2013 See Programme Cut The Transmission Festival The Venue 2013 Sport 28/09/2013 7:00 PM Chaos 12 Millennium Forum Theatre 29/09/2013 8:00 PM By Mr. Farquhar Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Exhibition 29/09/2013 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm Fayre in the Square Wedding Festival The Venue Theatre 30/09/2013 see programme By Mr. Farquhar North West Regional College
Events Through October 2013
Event Type Date Time Event Venue Theatre 01/10/2013 see programme By Mr. Farquhar North West Regional College Children/Young 01/10/2013 10.30 am & 12.45 pm Hairy Maclary and Friends Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Children/Young 02/10/2013 10.30 am & 12.45 pm Anne Fine Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Dance 02/10/2013 7:30 PM The Five & the Prophecy of Prana Millennium Forum Conference 03/10/2013 see programme Film, History and Public Memory Conference Nerve Centre Children/Young 03/10/2013 10.30 am & 2.45 pm Andrew Cope Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Dance 03/10/2013 11.30 am & 7.30 pm The Five & the Prophecy of Prana Millennium Forum Theatre 03/10/2013 8:00 PM Pits and Perverts The Playhouse Theatre Conference 04/10/2013 see programme Film, History and Public Memory Conference Nerve Centre Children/Young 04/10/2013 see programme Local Authors & Book Swap Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Theatre 04/10/2013 7:30 PM Moscow Ballet – Sleeping Beauty Millennium Forum Theatre 04/10/2013 8:00 PM Pits and Perverts The Playhouse Theatre Arts & Culture 05/10/2013 7:30PM Carol Ann Duffy, UK Poet Laureate Waterside Theatre & Arts Centr Charity 05/10/2013 7:30 PM LegenDerry Zombie Walk Ebrington Square Cinema 06/10/2013 6:00 PM Bollywood Movie Club Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Comedy 06/10/2013 8:00 PM Ardal O’Hanlon Millennium Forum Theatre 07/10/2103 8:15 PM Secret Door Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Theatre 08/10/2013 8:00 PM Sea Lavender The Playhouse Theatre Theatre 09/10/2013 8:00 PM Sea Lavender The Playhouse Theatre Music 09/10/2013 8:00 PM Top of the World – The music of The Carpenters Millennium Forum Arts & Culture 10/10/2013 see programme Strabane & District Women Together The Craft Village Theatre 10/10/2013 8:00 PM Sea Lavender The Playhouse Theatre Music 10/10/2013 8:00 PM Showband Memories Millennium Forum Theatre 10/10/2013 8:00 PM Your Honour, Your Honour Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Theatre 11/10/2013 8:00 PM Sea Lavender The Playhouse Theatre Music 11/10/2013 8:00 PM Smackee presents: ABBA The Show Millennium Forum Theatre 11/10/2013 8:00 PM Your Honour, Your Honour Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Theatre 12/10/2013 7:00 PM Morning and Afternoon The Playhouse Theatre Music 12/10/2013 8:00 PM Duke Special And Meadbh McGinley Millennium Forum Theatre 12/10/2013 8:00 PM Sea Lavender The Playhouse Theatre Comedy 13/10/2013 8:00 PM A Tribute to the Legendary Noel McBride Millennium Forum Music 16/10/2013 1:30 PM Sing Fest Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Theatre 16/10/2013 8:00 PM From The Camp to The Creggan Millennium Forum Theatre 16/10/2013 8:00 PM Jack The Ripper Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Theatre 17/10/2013 8:00 PM From The Camp to The Creggan Millennium Forum Theatre 17/10/2013 8:00 PM Sanctuary The Playhouse Theatre Theatre 18/10/2013 8:00 PM From The Camp to The Creggan Millennium Forum Theatre 18/10/2013 8:00 PM Sanctuary The Playhouse Theatre Theatre 18/10/2013 8:00 PM The Rape of Lucrece Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Theatre 19/10/2013 8:00 PM From The Camp to The Creggan Millennium Forum Theatre 19/10/2013 8:00 PM Sanctuary The Playhouse Theatre Theatre 19/10/2013 8:00 PM The Rape of Lucrece Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Theatre 20/10/2013 8:00 PM The Rape of Lucrece Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Theatre 23/10/2013 8:00 PM David Copperfield Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Music 24/10/2013 see programme City of Derry International Choral Festival Various Locations Around The City Theatre 24/10/2013 8:00 PM Innocence Lost Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Music 25/10/2013 see programme City of Derry International Choral Festival Various Locations Around The City Theatre 25/10/2013 8:00 PM An Nua Theatre presents Derry 24 Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Music 26/10/2013 see programme City of Derry International Choral Festival Various Locations Around The City Theatre 26/10/2013 7:30 PM The Importance of Being Earnest Millennium Forum Theatre 26/10/2013 8:00 PM An Nua Theatre presents Derry 24 Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Theatre 26/10/2013 8:00 PM An Nua Theatre presents Derry 24 Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Music www.zapitpublishing.com26/10/2013 10:00 PM A night with Roy Arbuckle & Friends The Playhouse Theatre Music 8 27/10/2013 see programme City of Derry International Choral Festival Various Locations Around The City
Zapit Magazine [Issue 4].indd 8 24/09/2013 10:22 Events Through October 2013 Event Type Date Time Event Venue Theatre 28/10/2013 7:00 PM A Night of Mediumship with Paula O’Brien Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Theatre 30/10/2013 8:00 PM From Macklin to Friel Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Music 31/10/2013 8:30 PM Chic Featuring Nile Rodgers The Venue
Events Through November 2013 Event Type Date Time Event Venue Music 01/11/2013 8:00 PM Teenage Kicks A Punk Musical Millennium Forum Theatre 02/11/2013 7:30 PM More Lives Than One The Beech Hill Hotel Music 02/11/2013 8:00 PM Teenage Kicks A Punk Musical Millennium Forum Music 03/11/2013 8:00 PM Teenage Kicks A Punk Musical Millennium Forum Music 03/11/2013 8:00 PM The Musical Express Millennium Forum Music 04/11/2013 8:00 PM Teenage Kicks A Punk Musical Millennium Forum Music 05/11/2013 8:00 PM Teenage Kicks A Punk Musical Millennium Forum Theatre 06/11/2013 8:00 PM Crows on the Wire Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Music 06/11/2013 8:00 PM Teenage Kicks A Punk Musical Millennium Forum Music 07/11/2013 12:30 PM Laura Gailey – Somewhere in the Darkness The Playhouse Theatre Music 07/11/2013 8:00 PM Teenage Kicks A Punk Musical Millennium Forum Drama 07/11/2013 8:00 PM Exodus Revisited Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Music 08/11/2013 8:00 PM Teenage Kicks A Punk Musical Millennium Forum Music 09/11/2013 8:00 PM Teenage Kicks A Punk Musical Millennium Forum Festival 08/11/2013 see programme Women of the World The Playhouse Theatre Music 08/11/2013 7:30 PM Sontas Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Sport 09/11/2013 7:00 PM World Kickboxing Tournament The Venue 2013 Children/Young 09/11/2013 7:45 PM Britannia Junior Band & Friends Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Music 09/11/2013 9:00 PM Rokia Traore Nerve Centre Festival 10/11/2013 see programme Women of the World The Playhouse Theatre Children/Young 11/11/2013 7:00 PM Shakespeare School Festival Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Theatre 13/11/2013 7:30 PM The Caucasian Chalk Circle Waterside Theatre & Arts Centre Educational 14/11/2013 7:00 PM Nature’s Cruise Missiles Verbal Arts Centre Music 15/11/2013 8:00 PM Christy Moore with Declan Sinnott Millennium Forum
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David Doherty is from Derry, but he had always dreamed about travelling the world and experiencing different cultures. In July 2008, he did the TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) course at Foyle International in order to fulfil his dream of travelling and teaching English abroad.
David tells us “I found the course really challenging and informative and thanks to the TEFL course, I found a job very quickly. TEFL has allowed me to travel and work in different countries from Spain to South Korea”. David first spent two years in Spain and then moved to Seoul, South Korea, for a year. He now teaches English in a private school to kids from kindergarten to high school. David explains, “I know I live in a place where the culture is radically different, but I find it good fun to try and adapt to way of life here. It is has been a life-changing experience and has been a fantastic opportunity for me”.
He highly recommends teaching and travelling, because “you get to see the world and get to know other cultures to a much deeper level”. He also talks to us about meeting lots of interesting new people and places. David believes that “anybody would enjoy this lifestyle, but the more outgoing and adventurous you are the better”.
So, what are you waiting for? If you share David’s dream and your biggest aim is to travel abroad and teach, just follow his steps! You can meet him next in Brazil which is his next destination. Avoiding Job Extinction 1/2 of world’s jobs to disappear within fifteen years Make way for the coming boom in new professions The world of employment is about to be turned up- Why you need to take advice about product and makes it easy to buy on a mobile device – they side down. A McKinsey report says that 2 billion of may be an “also ran” in the years to come. Programming jobs the four billion jobs in the world will disappear by your job now to create the next generation of mobile phone applications will 2030. The good news is that technology is creating be a booming profession in the coming years. new types of jobs to replace them and there are al- 3. Knowledge will be automated, mobile and freely ready shortages of job applicants in certain fields. available. Computers have already eliminated bookkeeping, clerical work, and repetitive production jobs in manufacturing. In Northern Ireland there is a boom in recruitment of Infor- Banks are currently shedding thousands of jobs in Northern mation Technology workers with 12% of all companies and Ireland as clerical work is done by machines. Now computers 14% of ICT companies with current vacancies. This is going can understand unstructured questions from people with no to be accentuated in Derry which has been designated as a expertise and provide answers requiring judgement without digital hub. One in five companies report difficulty in finding the need for lawyers and accountants in some cases. On the the right IT workers, particularly Computer Science graduates, other hand, automated knowledge has enabled less qualified experienced Programmers and Testers. Hewlett Packard have workers to analyse and use information to spot opportunities, got together with Prodigy Learning and Belfast Metropolitan find solutions and act in a more managerial way. A secretary College to up skill people wanting to learn remotely and get who used to be tied down typing has become a proactive into the boom areas of cloud computing where there will be personal assistant, booking flights, buying goods and services many new jobs in the coming years. more economically through online retail and communicating 9 technologies that are about to change the job rapidly with workers offsite whom they can now organise and Increasingly, people need the assistance of an agency to get market forever monitor for their supervisor. and keep a job because things are changing so fast. Often the
advice is to change jobs and re-train! Professions are disap- 1. Vehicles that drive themselves. Google are working pearing before our eyes – how many travel agents have been 4. Cloud technology – no need for personal computers as on a driverless taxi that you hail from your mobile. Rivals Mer- displaced by websites in the last ten years? Employment all the software is held online. Teachers are going to have to cedes Benz plan to have an almost driverless vehicle on sale agencies are uniquely placed to plug employees into the un- change into motivators and mentors rather than knowledge within seven years. Nissan and Toyota also have prototypes derground jobs network to find out where the freshest job op- providers as all the information, classes and teaching you under test. By 2014 Volvo will have an assisted driving vehicle portunities are. The days of taking pot luck by searching the could ever want are online at the touch of a button in an in- that steers, brakes and accelerates on its own. Anyone driving jobs ads in local papers are over. It makes more sense to teractive media rich format that teachers could never match. a bus, taxi or lorry should be preparing for a different type of make your availability known to an agency who will act like Teachers will have to show students how to learn, how to be employment. early warning radar, alerting you to opportunities and match- creative, to problem solve and to work collaboratively online if ing your skill to the most appropriate and highest paid work they are to help their students get relevant income producing available. 2. Internet on your mobile If a company is selling some- skills. Teachers will become coaches rather than specialists in thing but does not have a website that demonstrates their their subjects. There will be a real need for teachers
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Zapit Magazine [Issue 4].indd 10 24/09/2013 10:22 Jobs that will change Why workers are
• Teachers increasingly turning to
• Taxi, bus and lorry Drivers employment agencies.
• Nurses and Doctors In any six month period Health boards alone can pay out • Bankers as much as £10 million to agency workers in Northern Ireland. With nearly 12% of non- health jobs available in • Shop assistants some health trusts going to agency workers we look at the reasons behind the growth in agency employment. • Clerical office workers -routine civil service work • Workers can register with an agency for free. • Builders Agencies do not charge you for going on their books “Stay Local, Go Far” or finding a job for you – the employer pays everything • People who work in warehouses when they pick you.
• Lawyers and accountants- bookkeepers • First time workers get quick registration and an instant way into the jobs market. Students • Programmers and those in the Digital Economy just out of school can get themselves earning in time for their first Christmas out of school. Employers use agencies because they do not want the trouble of sifting to challenge students as they learn. Education will become highly through thousands of job applications. Using newspaper personalised to the individual student who will get their knowledge job adverts is a long drawn out and inefficient way for mostly by interrogating machines on the web – not teachers. All of both employer and wannabe employees to meet. The this could mean more need for teachers as cloud technology drives agency can instantly walk you in through an open door down the cost of education and allows greater numbers of people if they can match your skills to an available job. to educate and re-train than ever before. The speed of change it- self will create a demand for constant re-education throughout our • Minimum pay protections, anti-discrimination lifetimes. laws and working time regulations apply to agency workers in the same way as directly hired workers. 5. Robots – If you work in a warehouse or stack goods in a retail store look out! Here comes the Kiva Robot. The bright orange bot • Agency worker rights are now almost the same owned by Amazon is transforming warehouses all over the world as a directly hired employee. the Agency Workers • Administration/Secretarial as it scurries around picking orders from shelves accurately, all day Regulations (NI) guarantee that an agency worker will and without even taking a tea break. The shelf packer will be gone have the same basic employment terms and working • Accountancy & Finance within the next ten years. conditions as workers employed directly by a company. This means: • IT & Technical 6. Internet of things and healthcare– machines such as fridg- • Engineering es, heaters, vacuum cleaners etc. will all be remotely controlled and o On the first day of employment – same ac- talking to each other via the internet. Already office workers in en- cess to the workplace crèche if available and the right to • Industrial & Driving ergy companies are displaced by devices on domestic oil and gas apply for internal posts. This is really valuable to some- tanks that dial a computer to order fuel automatically. Hospitals will one trying to break into the jobs market as it makes them • Sales & Marketing be full of equipment which calls other equipment and materials to highly visible to potential employers. travel robotically to where it is needed. Hospital porters and nurses • Healthcare & Nursing will see the nature of the tasks they do transformed for the better. o After 12 weeks of continuous work - the With machines doing routine tasks more cheaply, the work of sup- same basic pay, working hours, rest breaks and holidays. port staff in hospitals will change to take over some of the admin- Entitlement to certain bonuses and overtime is also istrative and slightly more demanding routine tasks that special- guaranteed. Pregnant workers get time off for ante-natal ist healthcare workers do. This will free specialists to concentrate appointments the same as everyone else. Being off on on the more technical and difficult parts of their job. Employing maternity or paternity leave does not stop you qualify- ing for equal conditions and treatment after the twelve support staff to relieve specialists of non-core tasks will have the Tel: effect of dramatically increasing the productivity and return on in- weeks from the start. Although agency workers may not (028) 7136 0070 have automatic entitlement to some extra pension and vestment in the education of doctors. These support roles will be Email: [email protected] filled by people who do not have full medical degrees but whose sick pay that companies might offer, their rights to statu- experience, abilities and training is appropriate and focused on the tory sick pay and pension entitlements are guaranteed. 18 Great James St, less specialist tasks. Couple this trend with the expected explosion in dementia and longer living baby boomers and there is likely to • Agencies can effectively get you long term Derry/Londonderry be an overall increase in the need for care workers, pharmacists, work even if each employer only has you on tempo- physician’s assistants, physical and occupational therapists, dental rary assignment. Working for an agency can become BT48 7DA hygienists, lab technicians, clinical research assistants and health a life choice for many workers who enjoy the freedom administrators. Managing these complex work arrangements will and flexibility of the arrangement. Many agencies would mean that there are opportunities for those who want to work only have workers on their books for over a decade. occasionally or part time to fit work around their family lifestyle. Flexible and mobile workers will be essential to filling the some- • Agency workers can have a more flexible life- times unpredictable needs and demands as the healthcare system style. Assignments can be accepted or refused when expands. With healthcare arguably the biggest government cost they arise. Parents can avoid summer work if they prefer government will be keen to legislate for incentives to work flexibly to look after their own children during holiday breaks. and re-train. Recruitment agencies will be central in delivering the Those who might like to go on for further study can earn right worker to the right place at the right time. valuable summer cash to pay for tuition fees.
7. Genomics – nurses and professionals will increasingly need to know how to use the new science of genomics to test and diag- nose patients and target cancer cures more accurately as this is set to explode as a new area of medicine. Re-training in genomics or being support staff in the field could be a very smart career move for anyone in healthcare.
8. 3D printing The day when you can walk into a shop, pick glass- es, a shoe or dress design and have it printed off on the spot by a 3D Ceres Europe (NI) Co-operative can retrain you to get that printer are not that far away. This will do away with manufacturing, job or promotion you are looking for in: warehouse and distribution jobs. Eventually 3D printers will be in Childcare Management Hospitality Business the home and people will be able to order designs online and print off many products that we currently have to go to shops for. Expect to see the toy industry transformed by this technology. There is even talk that components to build a house will be printed on site affecting the work of many construction workers. Get an NVQ Level 3 – Level 5 in a timeframe that suits 9. Fracking – getting gas cheaply from below ground by con- your lifestyle trolled explosion and sideways drilling. Fermanagh is targeted for The more experienced you are, the quicker you will get major fracking activity to extract gas. Expect jobs here within the qualified. next ten years.
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Zapit Magazine [Issue 4].indd 11 24/09/2013 10:22 McKeoneMcGillowaySolicitors Accident at work? Cormac McKeone BA Carmel McGilloway LLB
Should your employer Pay? For all your legal requirements in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, By our special correspondent offering specialist advice in the following areas:
• Matrimonial/Family Law If you are hurt at work and suffer injury, loss or dam- age your employer must compensate you if they have • Road Traffic Accidents been negligent. It does not matter whether you are full • Accidents at work time or whether you are at work for just a few minutes • Medical Negligence a week, the employer is still liable. Employers are negli- gent if a possible accident was reasonably foreseeable, • Conveyancing (North/ South) they did not take care to prevent it and you can con- • Estate Planning/ Probates & Trusts nect an actual accident to your loss. Even if a fellow • Employment Law employee caused the accident the employer could still be liable if they did not provide safe equipment and • Criminal Law clothing or make the environment safe. They should also have trained staff in safety and have written pro- For appointments please contact us at cedures to avoid the particular dangers they identify as Tel: (028) 7126 5566 unique to your workplace. 1 Carlisle Terrace, Derry. Is your employer negligent? – some simple questions. The quick test of whether your employer is negligent is [email protected]
to ask yourself whether there is a named individual in www.mckeonemcgilloway.com [email protected]. charge of health and safety, whether you have seen writ- ten health and safety procedures and whether anyone has done a written risk assessment to identify possible risks. If not, your workplace is an accident waiting to happen and your employer is legally in the wrong even before anyone is hurt. If you lift things at work you should have manual handling training. Catering staff should have special protection from knife cuts and burns. If you work with chemicals the risks should be anticipated in advance so that protective clothing, labelling, first aid and train- evidence proving that you are not trying to claim for ing can be matched to the particular hazard. Changing an injury sustained at a later date outside of work. circumstances such as the pregnancy of a worker have to Your employer cannot stop you leaving work or pun- be thought through because the employer is also liable What to do if you have an accident at work ish you for doing so if you are concerned for your for the safety of the baby. For example, pregnant workers When an accident occurs it is important to record personal safety and need to be medically checked. If in healthcare or working with raw meats have to be care- what has happened immediately. All employers you are intimidated by your employer it is important ful about radiation, chemicals, food bacteria, heavy lifting should have an accident report book or form and this to seek the assistance of a solicitor straight away as and using stepladders. should be filled in straight away to record that the they can sometimes prevent an employer from mak- If your work involves unusual, extraordinary or exception- accident took place at a particular time and place. If ing your misfortune worse by violating your rights al tasks such as dealing with explosives, highly flamma- there is no book, write out your own report anyway. under employment and health and safety law in an ble liquids, dangerous viruses or toxic fumes for example, Do this in your own words and do not let others put effort to make it difficult for you to claim. your employer could be “strictly liable” and have to cover their own “spin” on the event – especially the em- the cost of the accident even if they have taken every pre- ployer. Never sign someone else’s record of events if You only have three years from the date of the ac- caution. This is something your lawyer would investigate. you think it is unclear, misleading or has left anything cident to issue court proceedings should you need out. If you can take photographs of an injury before to do so. If you were under the age of 18 when When is the employee at fault? it is treated or the immediate aftermath of a crash the accident happened proceedings must be is- If the employer has done everything reasonable to avoid or fall it helps as evidence. Without a photograph, sued before your 21st birthday. The most impor- hazards and an employee ignores their own health and there may be no way to later prove, for example, that tant thing though is to make sure you do not have safety and gets injured, the employer may not be liable. a trip was caused by rubbish being left across a floor. an accident in the first place; so before you think Even if the employer is partly liable, compensation for the Make sure you note who else was at the scene and about making the employer liable make sure you injured person might be reduced to take account of their get numbers to contact them because they could be have done all those things you would expect your own negligence. If another employee causes you an in- useful witnesses. Make a point of bringing the atten- employer to do to keep yourself and others safe at jury by being careless and ignoring health safety train- tion of witnesses to any hazards present at the scene work. ing, the employer could still be liable as they have a duty of the accident and do so at the time. Even if you do to make sure that the employees around you act safely. not think you have been too badly hurt, seek medi- The degree of liability, if any, would depend on the sur- cal attention so that the nature and extent of any rounding circumstances and the help of a lawyer would injury can be documented and assessed. A record be needed in investigating a possible claim. of a medical check-up can sometimes be the only
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Zapit Magazine [Issue 4].indd 13 24/09/2013 10:22 Gluten Free Menu everything home made Halloween Cafe and tasty. Gluten Free Nervosa scones, cakes, breakfasts, snacks, lunches prepared under the supervision of Recipes from Cecilia (who is also Celiac) Cecilia McCauley Outside Catering available You can also ring in @ Café Nervosa and collect your order tel: 028 7126 0562 7 Magazine St Squeamish Squares (beside the Nerve Centre)
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Ingredients: 150grams drak chocolate , broken into pieces Money Saving 100grams butter or margarine 4 tablesp golden syrup & Quirky Recipes 100grams gluten free rice krispies 50grams chopped nuts & 50grams broken gluten free digestive biscuits Cauliflower & Potato Bake 100grams mini marshmallows 50grams white chocolate There are many ways to cook cauliflowers much beyond boiling or steaming and jelly snakes and bugs to decorate cauliflower cheese – delicious as those options are! Don’t forget you can always re- place the cauliflower with broccoli if that’s all you have. *For healthier option, replace chopped nuts & digestive with 50g dried blueberries & 50g dried cranberries SERVES: 2 - 3 as a main meal Method: line a 20cm square tin with greaseproof paper or cling film INGREDIENTS: place the dark chocolate, butter, golden syrup in a pan over a low heat and stir until 1 small cauliflower, broken into small florets melted 2-3 medium potatoes, peeled and sliced put the rice krispies in a large bowl and mix in the nuts and biscuits, *or dried fruit 2 medium leeks, washed and sliced stir in the chocolate mixture until everthing is well coated, spoon mixture into tin and 4 tablespoons plain flour leave to cool for one hour (or make the day before and leave overnight ) 400ml milk once chilled remove from tin and peel away the paper or cling film 1 teaspoon paprika using a sharp knife cut into 16 squares or 32 bite size pieces 85g / 3oz grated cheddar cheese melt the white chocolate in a small bowl over barely simmering water, or in micowave 1 tablespoon vegetable oil for one minute stirring half way using a teaspoon drizzle the white chocolate over the squares, stick the snakes and bugs on each square with a little melted chocolate METHOD: these will keep in an airtight tin for up to two days In a steamer if you have one, boil the potatoes in the bottom pan and steam the cauliflower – or boil each in separate pans until just cooked Meanwhile, heat the oil in saucepan and sauté the leeks until soft Stir in the flour and cook for two minutes Add the milk, stirring all the time Spider Cupcakes Continue stirring until the milk has thickened and boiled Add the paprika and half the cheese For Cupcakes In a lasagne type dish, place the potatoes in the bottom. Add the cauliflower on top. Ingredients: Pour the leek and cheese sauce over the top 8oz (200grams) gluten free self raising flour Sprinkle with the remaining cheese one teaspoon gluten free baking power Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees C for about 30 minutes until browned 4oz (100grams) castor sugar Serve hot with a vegetable or salad 4oz (100grams) margarine 4 medium eggs Method: Place all the ingredients into a large bowl and Recipe by Penny’s Recipes beat well until light and fluffy divide into 18 http://tiny.cc/t7qp paper cases for fairy cakes Bake in a preheated oven for 12 / 15 mins oven temp 180oc/ 350f / gas mark 4
For butter icing: Ingredients: 3oz (75grams) soft margarine 8oz (225grams) icing sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla essence 2-3 teaspoon milk 1 tablespoon cocoa power mixed with 1 tablespoon hot water Method: Put the margarine, icing sugar and one teasp of the milk in a bowl and beat with a wooden spoon or electric mixer, add more of the milk to give a light smooth and fluffy consistency, beat the cocoa mixture into the icing
To decorate you need red liquorice laces and one pack smarties
When the cupcakes are cooled spread the butter icing over the top of the cupcakes cut the liquorice into 7cm pieces using a wooden skewer poke 3 holes in each side of the cupcake ,insert the liquorice into each hole for the legs place 2 smarties on for the eyes and one below for the nose The best fish supper in town! Specialising in Fresh Boneless Cod – made to order Gluten Free Menu – Thur, Fri & Sat
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Zapit Magazine [Issue 4].indd 14 24/09/2013 10:22 Beetroot bread I was inspired to do this recipe after going for an afternoon tea at a 5 star hotel. After Drumahoe researching and trialing this recipe was a success with my friends (even some of the more conservative ones) Veterinary Clinic INGREDIENTS: 150ml warm water 4 Ardlough Road, Drumahoe, 15g (1tbs) dried yeast derry~Londonderry, BT47 5SW 1tsp sugar 2-3 raw beetroot 120ml milk 600g strong bread white flour 30g olive oil 2 tsp salt
METHOD: Reactivate the yeast in the warm water mixed with sugar (as per the product’s instructions) or use fast action dried yeast Peel the beetroot (you might want to use gloves if you don’t like your hands getting red, but it will come off quite easily anyway). Once peeled, cut them in quarters/chunks and put them in a food processor together with the milk. Mix until there are no big bits of beetroot and the texture is smooth In a big bowl mix the flour and salt. Add the yeast, beetroot mixture and olive oil and start Tel: (028) 7131 1448 bringing the dough together. www.drumahoe-vet-clinic.co.uk Knead the bread on a clean surface for about 10 minutes. Put the dough in a big bowl and cover with a lightly oiled clingfilm and leave it in a warm place for about an hour or until doubled in size . Prepare a tray (I used a pizza tray, but not the one with holes) Knock the dough back, remove from the bowl and shape into a round . Put in in the prepared tray, cover with the lightly oiled clingfilm and leave it to rise for another 30-45 minutes. Do You Qualify for almost Free Vet Care Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Make a cross on the top of the dough with a sharp knife and bake it in the oven for 35-40 for your pet? minutes. It is done when the crust is crispy and it sounds hollow when tapped. Allow the bread to completely cool on a cooling wrack before slicing it. Who is PDSA? It is really lovely served with butter and cheese (especially goat’s cheese) and salad. PDSA is the Peoples Dispensary for Sick Animals. It is one of the UKs leading Veterinary Anca Moore from Luton Charities. To benefit from free vet care you must be registered as a PDSA client at a http://tiny.cc/3nrw3w PDSA registered Veterinary Practice, Clinic or Hospital. Drumahoe Veterinary Clinic and Whitehouse Veterinary Clinic are registered PDSA Veterinary establishments, for the catchment areas Londonderry/ Derry, Claudy, Strabane, Castlederg and Limavady. – Anne’s Mushroom Stroganoff Post Codes BT47, BT48, BT49 and BT82. Recipe created by Anne Clark from Brentwood for the Vegetarian Society’s ‘Surprisingly simple’ member recipe competition, part of National Vegetarian Week Eligibilty
Use any mushrooms you have - even if they have started to dry out and go wrinkly they will PDSA Vet Care Services are available to pet owners who receive means tested help with still work in this recipe. Green and yellow pepper also work well. their rent or council tax. – Housing Benefit or Council Tax Support / Reduction.
SERVES: 4 PREP TIME: 10 minutes Registration COOKING TIME: 15-20 minutes Eligible pet owners living within the catchment areas can register their pets at either INGREDIENTS: of the two veterinary establishments. On completion of the registration form a fee of 1 tbsp olive oil £7.50 is payable. 250g mushrooms, sliced 2 shallots, chopped 1 red pepper, chopped Please Note: 2 cloves garlic, crushed 250ml vegetable stock 2013 Society Vegetarian The Image © 2013 ½ tsp dried, crushed chillies • Don’t wait until your pet is sick or injured. 110g basmati rice 200ml soya single cream • Find out today if PDSA can help you before your pet needs help. Ground black pepper, to taste METHOD: • All popular pets are treated: dogs, cats and those described as Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and then add the sliced mushrooms, chopped shallots and ‘small furries.’ diced red pepper. Cook until they soften and most of the liquid has disappeared. Add the crushed garlic and cook for 2 more minutes. • PDSA only treats one pet per household. Add the vegetable stock and chillies to the frying pan. Cook for 7 minutes, until about half of the liquid has reduced. • All PDSA clients are invited to make a voluntary contribution for Whilst the stroganoff is cooking, begin to cook the rice according to packet treatment provided. instructions (basmati/easy cook white/brown rice all work well) Add the cream and a generous amount of pepper to the stroganoff, then simmer for ap- proximately 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Once cooked, spoon out the rice onto plates and spoon the stroganoff on top. Check PDSA out on Enjoy with garlic bread. http://tiny.cc/ud0p3w NUTRITION INFORMATION: Egg free Dairy free Gluten free Wheat free Vegan Nut free Recipe author: Anne Clark http://tiny.cc/qmrp3w Food at Very Competitive Prices Stocking all Party Essentials Store Chicken Wings • Spicy Wedges at Chicken Goujons • Large selection of sauces Much much more in store
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• First of all take a few minutes to ask your self what you really would like. What would be your ideal Christmas? Who’s involved? Where are you? What’s happening? Life coaching teaches us to be solution focused, start with the ideal out come first and then work back from that. Think about how you would cook your Christmas dinner… you start off with a picture of how your dinner should look either in your head or in a recipe book and then you work back i.e. you gather your ingredients, follow the recipe, time the process. So why wouldn’t you follow a recipe for the ideal Christmas? So build up a picture of this ideal scene. • Make your picture realistic. Does it fit in with everyone else? Is it achievable? Do you need a bit of compromise? Setting unrealistic targets and deadlines just adds pressure. Adjust your picture to some thing more realistic and achievable. • How are you going to achieve this picture? Ask yourself what you need to be to achieve this ideal Christmas? Organised? Calm? Positive? Firm? In control? • Acceptance. Sometimes we need to realise that there are things that are just out of our control and no amount of trying is going to change that. If you do have control over a certain situation then do some thing about it but if not, remember all you can control is yourself and your attitude. If you have never got on with that relation, why is this Christmas going to be any different? Agree to disagree and move on. • Get organised. Don’t leave it all to the last minute. Use a notebook or diary to make lists. List jobs and plan your days ahead and stick to it. Don’t forget to delegate… it shouldn’t be down to one person to organise. • Recognise when you have something done and feel good about it • Get some perspective. Do you really need to buy for everyone? Do you really need to send all those cards? Helen McDonnell Think of the environment and your poor wee postie! Do you really need enough food to see you through a nuclear www.indigocoaching.com attack? How many visitors do you really get? Christmas is really only two days! And the shops are only closed for 1 day! facebook.com/Indigo.i.Coaching • Focus on the positive. Always look to the good in a situation. You can’t get out of the compulsory family gathering, rows and all… just appreciate that you are all able to get together, next year might be different. Helen runs her own business Indigo i Coaching providing coaching services to • Feeling stressed or someone driving you mad? Bite your lip, don’t react, keep calm, take deep breaths, go for a walk. individuals, companies and organisations. Remember the only thing you can control is yourself…ahhhhhh. What do you need to be? And repeat it to yourself…. She helps people to re-connect with their calm… focused…rise above it… positive. Do take a break and plan some ‘me’ time. intuition, become unstuck and fit in their And my final tips … own skin. Indigo i Coaching is all about Buy a goat! Oxfam, Trocaire, UNICEF all have great gift ideas. Water for drought areas, vaccines for villages, blankets for babies and animals creating personal strategies for a future of for communities. Or closer to home make a donation to a local charity. possibilities. Send e-Christmas cards! In this age of technology and global warming be environmentally friendly and send Christmas cards by email across the world and down the street. You can also send charity e-cards. Recycle. Use newspaper or brown paper as wrapping paper and sparkly ribbon for effect. Cut out coloured card or use luggage labels as tags… be imaginative! When you are thinking about your ideal Christmas, consider what message you are sending to your children. What do you want them to understand about Christmas? Above all remember why you are celebrating Christmas! Contrary to belief Christmas is not about Santa, overeating and presents… we are celebrating the birth of a rather significant person! It is the season of goodwill so bulk up on that Christmas spirit!!
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