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The Issue 129 - May 2017 VILLAGER and Town Life LOCAL NEWS • LOCAL PEOPLE • LOCAL SERVICES • LOCAL CHARITIES • LOCAL PRODUCTS In this issue RSPB Garden Birdwatch Results Win Tickets to see Sam Brookes Live Win £25 in our Prize Crossword Bringing Local Business to Local People in Biggleswade, Sandy, Potton, Gamlingay and all surrounding villages 11,000 copies delivered to over 30 towns and villages every month Your To advertise in The Villager and Town Life please call 01767 261122 FREEcopy1 2 Please mention The Villager and Town Life when responding to adverts The Issue 129 - May 2017 VILLAGER and Town Life LOCAL NEWS • LOCAL PEOPLE • LOCAL SERVICES • LOCAL CHARITIES • LOCAL PRODUCTS In this issue RSPB Garden Birdwatch Results Win Tickets to see Sam Brookes Live Win £25 in our Prize Crossword Bringing Local Business to Local People in Biggleswade, Sandy, Potton, Gamlingay and all surrounding villages 11,000 copies delivered to over 30 towns and villages every month Your Contents To advertise in The Villager and Town Life please call 01767 261122 FREEcopy1 Landscape Journeys ................................................................45 Employment Matters ..............................................................46 RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch Results ........................................48 Slug Survival ...........................................................................51 Rural Ramblings ......................................................................52 Wordsearch .............................................................................54 Bank Holidays .........................................................................57 Bedfordshire’s cleverest puppies need more parents ...............58 Animal Know-How ..................................................................60 Ask Alan - Potton Vets .............................................................62 Big Garden Birdwatch Results 48 Children’s Page ........................................................................65 BMW M760Li xDrive ................................................................67 This History of Beauty ...............................................................4 Seasonal Delights ....................................................................71 Where Am I?..............................................................................8 Nick Coffer’s Weekend Recipe ..................................................73 Win a pair of tickets to see Sam Brookes Live ..........................10 What’s On ................................................................................74 Win afternoon tea for two at Jordans Mill ...............................12 Fun Quiz ..................................................................................78 Ready for Revision ...................................................................15 Puzzle Page .............................................................................80 Wine: Gems of Italy .................................................................16 Prize Crossword .......................................................................86 Collections ..............................................................................19 Book Review ...........................................................................92 Laughter is the best medicine .................................................20 Love my Stretch .......................................................................22 National Doughnut Week ........................................................25 Music 4 Memory Group in Potton ............................................26 Sani Pass - South Africa ...........................................................28 Skin Deep ................................................................................31 Tips for Mums .........................................................................32 Bringing our Community Together ..........................................35 Local charity launches new partnership ..................................37 Here comes the summer sun ...................................................39 Should you pay off debts with your pension ............................40 Sani Pass 28 A Home with Character ...........................................................42 Editorial - Catherine Rose, Sarah Davey, Trevor Langley, RSPCA, Publishers Tracey Anderson, Solange Hando, Louise Addison, Jennie Billings, Villager Publications Ltd Kate Duggan, Carol H Scott, Pippa Greenwood, Geoff Wharton, 24 Market Square, Potton, Bedfordshire SG19 2NP James Baggott, Potton Vets and Nick Coffer, Tel: 01767 261122 [email protected] Advertising Sales/Local Editorial www.villagermag.com Nigel Frost - 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No part of Design and Artwork - Design 9 Tel 07762 969460 this publication may be reproduced or stored without the express permission of the publisher. To advertiseAdvert Booking in The Villager Deadline and Thursday Town Life 11th please May call 2017 01767 261122 Artwork Deadline Thursday 11th May 2017 3 History By Catherine Rose The History of Beauty Surviving examples of primitive art usually We all have an innate appreciation of beauty depict women as full-figured, even fat, and often but throughout history and across cultures, the pregnant. This is because fertility was of primary concept of what makes a woman beautiful has importance for those civilizations. When survival changed according to the social background and was precarious, a woman’s ability to reproduce fashions of the time. was the bottom line. 4 Please mention The Villager and Town Life when responding to adverts To advertise in The Villager and Town Life please call 01767 261122 5 Just as we do today, people adorned their bodies keep a small box of them on their dressing table. with jewellery, paint, tattoos and piercings, not During the 19th century an hourglass figure only to look attractive but also as status symbols. became the desired female body shape and And status has always played a big part in our corsets, long used as undergarments (the name concept of beauty. ‘corset’ comes from the Latin ‘corpus’ meaning We can get a good idea of beauty ideals during body), were designed to achieve a waist any period by looking at art. Throughout the circumference of down to 18”, later accentuated medieval and early Renaissance era, ‘beautiful’ by the bustle. women had narrow shoulders and small breasts Following WWI and the suffrage movement, that emphasised their weaker sex compared to a new sense of female liberation produced a the broad, sword-wielding shoulders of their beauty revolution. Women no longer wanted menfolk. In many paintings women are also to be sexual objects to please men. Hemlines shown with very rounded stomachs. This didn’t went up for the first time and dresses became necessarily mean they were pregnant: it was a straighter, giving a slender, more androgynous beauty ideal indicating a woman was fertile and appearance. Women even wore suits and long able to have many children. hair was cropped. Coco Chanel, who banished It was also a religious time and for women, the notion that only a porcelain complexion appearing virtuous was a sign of beauty. could be beautiful when she showed off a suntan, Somewhat odd to us today, a long neck and a declared “a woman can never be too rich or too high forehead were prized, with almost non- thin”, arguably beginning the modern trend. existent brows to accentuate it. Women would The 1930s-50s saw curves return, possibly thanks often pluck or shave hair from their hairline to to the Hollywood film industry and stars like achieve this look. Once married, they were also Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne expected to modestly cover their hair, which was Mansfield who were the epitome of female how the elaborate headpieces and veils of this beauty. Wearing full make-up also began to be period came about. the norm, in imitation of actors who used it to During the late Renaissance and Baroque eras emphasise their looks on-screen. Max Factor was women became more voluptuous – think originally a make-up artist to the stars. With the of Rubens whose buxom females would be rise in hemlines, the focus shifted to shapely legs considered obese by today’s standards. There was and it was arguably the start of female epilation, a rationale behind this. Food was hard to come by when once women had even worn ‘mirkins’ unless you were wealthy and being full-figured (pubic wigs). meant you were well-fed and therefore of high The 1960s saw another beauty revolution. Society status - hence a desirable mate. was finally recovering from WWII, rationing had In a similar way, if you were light-skinned, it ended in 1954 and young people were enjoying meant that you were clearly a lady from a genteel a wave of new music with its roots based in black family as only poor outdoor labourers had ‘coarse culture. Once again women were re-establishing tanned skin’. So for several centuries beauty was their power and asserting their sexual freedom. measured by how pale you were (hence the term Mini-skirts arrived along with big hair. Twiggy, ‘fair’ meaning ‘beautiful’). the slender, doe-eyed model