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This week's contributors: Lydia, Doré Fasolati, this week's subjects: Travel fashion, Burberry reinvents itself, again, The advantage of shy men, Toxic Mothers...2.

Travel fashion My dearest Modern African Girl, I hope you had a glimpse of what to pack when traveling overseas. I am now going to assist you in travel packing for cold countries. Google isn’t 100% accurate in predicting the weather but it gives you a fair idea of what to expect. Assuming you are leaving a much warmer country for a colder country, here’s how you dress up for the airport. It’s always advisable to put on joggers since they can be worn during winter and summer. You can pair that with a tank top, pullover, and sneakers while packing a wool jacket knee length with a pair of gloves into your hand luggage.

Depending on the number of days you are staying in the cold country, you can decide to pack at least four knee-length wool jackets and four different types of head gears like the beret. About four wool gloves, and knee-high wool socks. Your fur slipper for indoor movements. More cotton underwear. Your knee-length boots with fur lining. Above ankle-length boots. Thick stockings with inbuilt underwear.

Burberry reinvents itself, again. Burberry, founded in 1856 originally manufactured outdoor clothing, and then invented and patented gabardine, where wool is woven in such a way that water runs off. At that time we were still trying to reach the South Pole and the top of the Mount Everest, and these pioneers used Burberry clothing against the cold and wet. Burberry got their first big hit by supplying the British army with trench coats during the first world war (1914-1918). Coats to be worn in the trenches the army dug to keep their soldiers from oncoming bullets etc. Burberry check Burberry check The Burberry check has been in use since at least the 1920s, primarily as a lining in the trench coats and eventually, that became the trademark we all know. Maybe that's where the expression “turning things inside out” comes from. But this “check” has become too common of late, and I could foresee the downfall of the Burberry brand. But again, they are reinventing, and lately, I saw this yellow bag design, moving towards 1920 Dutch painter Mondriaan. We'll see more of Burberry, and in fact, they are one of the few big brands which really have their own identity.

The advantage of shy men. Unfortunately most men, and women for that matter, one day get into bed together without really having the slightest idea what this is all about. Often the girl is scared, is it going to be very painful? Not a very good way to start your sex life. And she is right to be scared, apart from the first time typically involving some pain, the guy often has no idea what he is about either, and may have gotten his lessons from the internet. Click “sex” and you get guys who never get tired and keep pumping away, and girls who roll from one screaming orgasm into the next. Screaming indeed, of pain. No wonder that some girls seek the comfort of girls rather than machos who try the Big Bang theory on you. Few click “sexual education”, but it is all there. First of all, do you know yourself? It's a bit of a taboo subject (and because of that taboo not many are happy in bed). You'll have to touch yourself all over (I mean ALL over) and figure out what is pleasant and what is not. If you don't know what you like, how do you expect him to know? And now for that shy man. You've broken through that shyness and are nicely talking along and getting on well. Now when you feel you are ready for it, take the lead. He may be surprised, but being shy he'll probably feel relieved that you proposed and will follow you to the bedroom like a lamb. Now stay in control and tell him what you want him to do. From undressing to kissing, stroke me here, touch me there, don't enter, I'll tell you when I'm ready, try to feel this, look at that, you see? I now feel this or that. He'll follow your instructions (hopefully) and you can bring this to a happy end. Praise him for a job well done. He'll try to get more compliments by doing the right thing again. For you, to you. And if the first time he is done before he even gets near entering you? No big deal, there are more opportunities, and continue to play a bit, don’t jump disappointed out of the bed. The essence of all this is like you are teaching a child how to learn something, have patience.

Toxic Mothers....! 2 You owe nothing to nobody, you did not ask to be born, your parents decided without asking you anything. Sometimes they did not even decide and only followed their hormone-driven impulses, (like.....), and then some of them even have the guts to call you an accident. But here you are with Control Freak Mum (CFM), and she is still your Mum. A way to deal with this is to sit her down and tell her straight in her face that you will not listen to her anymore, that you will call her 2 times a week, say on Tuesday and Friday at 5 pm sharp, and that you can only send her 100 GHS per month. And stick to that. It may be an unpleasant discussion with threats and insults, but just say what you want to say and get up. She will grumble plenty in the beginning but get used to it and be waiting for your call. And the funds, likely.

Lydia...

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