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Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Classic fairytale to take to the stage in Bolton with a delightful twist
The classic fairytale Cinderella will take to the stage this half-term with a delightful twist for all the family to enjoy. But it will be Cinders as you have never seen her before, with this lovely reimagining of the story. Entitled Cinderella: The Ice-Cream Seller! The heroine scoops her way to happiness in this heartwarming theatre show. First look inside Bolton Library as it reopens after multi-million-pound revamp First look at how Bolton library will look after spectacular £3.7m revamp Families can enjoy puppetry, storytelling, and plenty of surprises by the fabulous Little Seeds Music. The play will show at Bolton Central Library on Tuesday (27th May) at 11am and 2pm Tickets are £5 per person and £16 family ticket for four people. Tickets can booked at The performance is suitable for those aged five-and-over. The performance lasts for 60 minutes.
The Guardian
08-04-2025
- General
- The Guardian
Oh, the terrible guilt of enjoying the holiday sunshine, when my teenager is up to her neck in GCSEs
I've often heard parents describing exam season as like going into a war, or an incredibly harsh winter, for the entire family. Not just the person taking the GCSEs or A-levels, but the whole lot of you have to start having early nights, gird your loins, and get used to mood swings and anxiety attacks. It's sort of true, but it also depends quite a lot on the personality of the exam-taker. Some of them want to be tested on the groyne height of a beach in Hastings and practise talking about the climate crisis in French; others want you to butt out completely and leave them to it. Both approaches seem pretty reasonable to me. I'd forgotten one thing – the terrible guilt. Maybe it's because the Easter holidays weren't sunny last year, or maybe it's because the youngest is my favourite (I am joking), but the guilt is just hideous. It's like having a little Cinderella in the house, except I'm not the audience – I'm the evil stepmother. Fancy going to the beach, or to a party? What about a lovely lie-in, and then some re-runs of The Office? What about a ball – you know there are some great balls on? Everyone can do exactly as they wish, except Cinders upstairs, who's trying to memorise the whole of Great Expectations, while the rest of us – even the people who did the same text last year – sit around going: 'Is that the one about the orphanage and the porridge?' We can't even do positive visualisations of the summer, when it'll all be over, as that just reminds the poor rag-dressed creature of the time period between now and then. Really, the only way to offset this guilt would be to memorise Great Expectations myself. But I don't want to. The sun's out. Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist
Khaleej Times
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Khaleej Times
Dubai: How Midnight shopping; 2am deliveries are elevating Ramadan 2025 luxury retail
Traditionally, the chime of midnight signals Cinderella's exit from the ball, one glass slipper abandoned on the palace steps as the fairytale heroine's finery reverts to rags. In Ramadan 2025, the only shoes left on the doorstep will be those delivered by UAE luxury online retailer Ounass. This month, the stroke of midnight is the cut-off point for late night shoppers to hit 'buy' on their online cart, securing their fix of fairytale finery and having it delivered to their door by 2am. 'Ounass After Dark' promises that customers in Dubai who order by 12am during Ramadan will be unwrapping their treasures two hours later; Cinders' Fairy Godmother would approve. Whether Ounass has outfitted its fleet of drivers with horse-drawn carriages, I couldn't speculate, as I am long asleep by then. I like to think they have, though. This year, Ramadan has fallen in a key period for luxury fashion. The spring/summer collections have just landed in store, filled with the dopamine colours and lighter-weight fabrics that suit this region far more than September's wintry offerings, when we are too mired in humidity to be tempted by the knitwear, coats and boots that Northern Hemisphere-headquartered fashion brands anchor their autumn/winter ranges with. In addition to the influx of climate- and lifestyle-appropriate styles in stores this month, shoppers have the double-whammy of escalating numbers of Ramadan-specific collections created for the Holy Month. Lavish kaftans (I love Dima Ayad and Taller Marmo), chic abayas (Manaal Al Hammadi), and intricate accessories (see Christian Louboutin's ode to the geometry of Islamic art shown here) have been designed to elevate Ramadan nights and Eid mornings across the GCC. Factor in nightly social gatherings and gifting opportunities, and it's no wonder that 34 per cent of respondents in YouGov's Ramadan 2025: Consumer Insights report, which surveyed consumers in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, said their spending on clothes and accessories would increase during Ramadan this year. Redseer Strategy Consultants reports a 20 per cent year-on-year hike of enthusiasm in UAE consumer excitement this year, driving Ramadan retail sales to an estimated $10 billion (Dh36 billion). And with fasting schedules limiting time to visit shopping malls, despite most extending opening hours to 1am, online and social commerce are where modern-day Cinderellas discover their dream dresses. At night, without the time constraints of daily tasks or deadlines to meet, the shopping scroll can stretch till sunrise, creating a circadian retail rhythm all its own. Should you be in further need of inspiration, Instagram and TikTok serve an equally endless supply of content around the clock; YouGov's research reveals that 61 per cent of both Saudi Arabia- and UAE-based consumers are 'likely' or 'very likely' to shop for Ramadan on social media platforms. Social shopping is now well-established. Perhaps the next stage will be more widespread socially conscious shopping, pioneered so effectively in the region by The Giving Movement. I recently bought a dress on an Australian fashion brand's website. At checkout, I was offered the option of choosing where the $1 donation made by the brand for my purchase would go — to an environmental cause, an organisation promoting girls' education, or a women's health group. It's incredibly empowering to offer consumers a say in who benefits from a donation being made on their behalf. By integrating active philanthropy into online purchasing, consumers get to be both Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother, making for a much more modern fairytale.
