This week's contributors: Lydia, Doré Fasolati, this week's subjects: Events lineup, Défilé de mode, Rhythms, Antibiotics again, Snow white without her dwarfs.

Events Lineup A fashion show( Fashion défilé de mode) is an event put on by a fashion designer or creative to showcase their upcoming line of clothing and/or accessories, during a fashion week. Fashion shows debut every season, particularly the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter seasons. This is where the latest fashion trends are made. Here in Ghana it usually happens 1st quarter of the year or last quarter of the year. Next on the list of shows coming up this season is Rhythms on the Runway which debuted 10 years ago and is set to go bigger on Sunday November 20th 2022. This year's 10th anniversary is happening at the Grand Arena at the Accra International Conference center with tickets going for Ghc200cedis regular and Ghc400cedis VIP. With quite a number of influential companies sponsoring this show. Highlight of the night is great music, amazing fashion, compelling vision, one people. Over the years, this event has graced us with lots of great designers, personalities, musicians, movie stars, celebrities all walking the runway. With an honorary award dedicated after or in between the program line up. Its a creativity meets personality kind of event. Meaning one gets the opportunity to meet and interact with people of high social status at ease. So if you are looking to see a night filled with bliss, glam with music, then make a date because you are going to have the best night ever.

Antibiotics again. I mentioned earlier that doctors too often prescribe antibiotics in situations where they will not help you to heal, for example they don’t work against viruses like Covid, or a common cold.  This over prescription and over usage of antibiotics eventually results in the bacteria becoming resistant to these drugs. Bacteria reproduce every 10 minutes or so (for a human being that takes about 9 months, 40,000 times more), so they have a very high chance to mutate into immunity. Hospitals are supposed to heal people, but at the same time if you put a lot of sick people together chances are that one will give his disease to another. A 1000 bed non-profit hospital in Kasturba, India now has so many bacteria strains resistant to the common (and cheap ) antibiotics floating around in their wards that only the latest  and very expensive antibiotics still work, and the common man cannot afford these drugs, and thus dies. If this trend continues we'll go back to the time when no one knew anti biotics, before 1928, and where people easily died of common diseases such as ear and sinus infections, dental infections, skin infections, meningitis, strep throat, bladder and kidney infections, bacterial pneumonias and whooping cough.

Snow white without her dwarfs Sometimes I am invited to weddings and I must admit that some to these weddings are more than royal, the decor, the lay out, the food, but especially the bride, dressed in whiter than white. The full white used to mean that she was still a virgin, thus guaranteeing that once she was deflowered that night by her brand new husband (was he also supposed to be a virgin?) she would experience the ultimate pleasure for the first time in her young life, with him, and thus remain faithful and loving forever. I don’t know who invented that nonsense.  At these weddings I see a very happy, be it nervous  bride, and her unmarried sisters and girlfriends watch the ceremony with eager emotional tears in their eyes, a fairy tale come true. Indeed. A fairy tale.  With a lot of preparation. And that is where the snag is. 2 Young people meet and get on well, he takes her out, they have fun, they are presented to the parents, Now the pressure comes, when are you going to get married. And why not, we have fun together, isn’t it? So we dive into the preparation of the wedding and have more fun together, choosing the venue, who to invite, setting the date, printing the wedding invitations, and so on and so on. A big job and the future couple happily cooperates and gets on better and better, whilst preparing for the grand day. All goes well on the grand day, and then the stress is off, the first week they are in a celebrating mood, talk about what happened etc. And when that is over then, yes, then what? Do they still have things to share? What exactly are both expecting from the marriage? More often than not these things were not properly talked through, and going out together into town and having fun is different than marriage and the most difficult thing in a relationship, the first fart.  Now just look around you, how many happy couples do you know? So don’t fall into the snow white fairy tale preparation trap, but rather spend a lot of time talking married life expectancy things over thoroughly. And don’t be afraid to admit if maybe after all you can’t quite see how you are going to spend the next fifty years with Boo, and that you should thus stop the wedding plans. Afraid of what the family will say? It will blow away, but an unhappy marriage does not. Afraid to remain single? Better single and at peace than married in a war zone, and anyway, there are 15 million males in Ghana, majority of them looking for a partner.

Lydia...

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