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VILLAGER Issue 87 - February 2016 and Town Life LOCAL NEWS • LOCAL PEOPLE • LOCAL SERVICES • LOCAL CHARITIES • LOCAL PRODUCTS The VILLAGER Issue 87 - February 2016 and Town Life LOCAL NEWS • LOCAL PEOPLE • LOCAL SERVICES • LOCAL CHARITIES • LOCAL PRODUCTS Inside this issue Fairtrade Fortnight Portugal Cruising on the Douro River Win £25 in our Prize Crossword Bringing Local Business to Local People in Langford, Henlow, Shefford, Stanford, Hinxworth, Ickleford, Caldecote, Radwell, Shillington, Pirton, Upper and Lower Stondon, Gravenhurst, Holwell, Meppershall, Baldock, Stotfold, Arlesey, Hitchin & Letchworth Your FREEcopy 2 Please mention The Villager and Town Life when responding to adverts e VILLAGER Issue 87 - February 2016 and Town Life LOCAL NEWS • LOCAL PEOPLE • LOCAL SERVICES • LOCAL CHARITIES • LOCAL PRODUCTS Inside this issue Fairtrade Fortnight Portugal Cruising on the Douro River Win £25 in our Prize Crossword Bringing Local Business to Local People in Langford, Henlow, Shefford, Stanford, Hinxworth, Ickleford, Caldecote, Radwell, Shillington, Pirton, Upper and Lower Stondon, Gravenhurst, Holwell, Meppershall, Baldock, Stotfold, Arlesey, Hitchin & Letchworth Your Contents FREEcopy Beer at Home ..........................................................................36 Chinese New Year Animal Heroes .........................................................................39 28 Fiat 500 ...................................................................................41 Golden Years ...........................................................................43 Seasonal Delights ....................................................................44 Win a Signed Copy of ‘Regret to Inform You’ ............................47 Puzzle Page .............................................................................48 Ten Tips to Bring your Treasures Back to Life ............................50 Prize Crossword .......................................................................54 The Smallest Room .................................................................57 What’s On ................................................................................58 Book Review ...........................................................................62 Why We Celebrate Valentine’s Day .............................................4 For Goodness Sake - Pay By Credit Card .....................................8 Fairtrade Fortnight ..................................................................10 Feathered Friends Win Tickets to The Pad - The Selecter & Guests ........................12 35 Portugal - Cruising on the Douro River ....................................14 The Language of Flowers ........................................................19 Oxygen Therapy - Cure’s Local Lady’s Leg Ulcers ......................21 Changing for the Future ..........................................................25 Fun Quiz ..................................................................................25 Good Neighbours Wanted in Stondon .....................................26 Chinese New Year ....................................................................28 Employment Matters ..............................................................31 Feathered Friends....................................................................35 9,500 copies delivered free of charge in the following areas: Henlow, Langford, Astwick, Edworth, Hinxworth, Caldecote, Newnham, Radwell, Bygrave, Shillington, Holwell, Pirton, Upper and Lower Stondon, Shefford, Ashwell End and Stanford (Further bulk drops are made to local shops and busineses in Arlesey, Upper and Lower Stondon, Shefford, Baldock, Letchworth, Hitchin and Stotfold) Editorial - Sarah Fryer, Jonathan Vernon-Smith, Kate Duggan, Publishers Solange Hando, Debbie Singh-Bhatti, Carol H Scott, Iain Betson, Villager Publications Ltd Pippa Greenwood, Ted Bruning, RSPB, Kate McLelland, 24 Market Square, Potton, Bedfordshire SG19 2NP Susan Brookes-Morris and Bruce Edwards Tel: 01767 261122 Advertising Sales/Local Editorial [email protected] Nigel Frost - 01767 261122 [email protected] www.villagermag.com Photography Disclaimer - All adverts and editorial are printed in good faith, Subbotina and Darren Harbar Photography however, Villager Publications Ltd can not take any responsibility for the Design and Artwork content of the adverts, the services provided by the advertisers or any Design 9 Tel 07762 969460 statements given in the editorial. No part of this publication may be reproduced or stored without the express permission of the publisher. To advertise in The Villager and Townlife please call 01767 261122 History Roses are red, Violets are blue… Why are we celebrating? I don’t have a clue! Love is in the air this month with Valentine’s Day around the corner, but how many of us know just why we are celebrating? The fact is, there are a number of moments in history from which the holiday could have come and no one can say for sure which of them, if any, could be the definitive original source – most likely it has been an evolution, with vestiges from more than one place or time. It is often most closely associated with the ancient Roman festival Lupercalia, which itself is not fully understood. The festival has been connected with the legendary she-wolf Lupa, who nursed the founders of Rome – Romulus and Remus – when they were babes. She also protected the flocks and herds from wolves. The festival was also associated with the god Faunus – the god of agriculture. Lupercalia began with a sacrifice. A goat for fertility and a dog for purification were slain, before thongs and whips would be fashioned from the dead animals skins. The young men would then use these bloody thongs to softly lash at any women who came near; the thought was that the blow would make the woman fertile, and women welcomed it. A world away from what we are used to today Christian feast day, Saint Valentine’s Day, in the 5th perhaps! There were a great many other rituals Century but it is a mystery which St Valentine he as part of the festival that would seem intended to honour, there are at least three by strange to us in 2016, sacrifice that name recorded by the catholic and a sort of casual semi- church – all of them apparently brutality not being martyred. common place here and Most believe the St. Valentine that now but to them it was Gelasius intended to pay tribute a necessity. To keep both to was Father Valentine. Roman the lands and people fertile emperor Claudius II, a former army and prosperous – so not exactly officer faced many enemies and needed lovey-dovey! an army he could count on. His men travelled Pope Gelasius went some way to many miles from home, away from their families changing things. The catholic church for long periods of time and Claudius realised disagreed with these rituals believing that his men were homesick – and not fighting them to be unchristian. Gelasius as well as they might. replaced the Pagen festival with the According to legend the way he chose to 4 Please mention The Villager and Town Life when responding to adverts Bedfordshire’s Premier Kitchen & Bedroom Showroom Since 1974 We would like to welcome you to our new showroom at: The Old White Horse, 1 High Street, Biggleswade SG18 0JE Tel: 01767 314344 Email: [email protected] Web: lolineinteriors.co.uk To advertise in The Villager and Townlife please call 01767 261122 5 solve this problem, was to ban his young soldiers from marriage in the hope that they would not be made weak by soft hearts. Father Valentine paid the emperor little heed, continuing to marry young people in secret until he was caught by the Romans and sentenced to death. The myth goes on to say that Father Valentine fell in love with his jailer’s daughter. On 14th February he managed to pass a letter to his love before he was executed. The letter was signed “from your Valentine”. There are many myths surrounding the man but one thing that seems to remain constant is that he was a good man, very brave and an old romantic at heart. However, in spite of his romantic soul, it seems that the first time the link between romance and Valentine’s Day was recorded, was by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1383. Chaucer had written a poem to commemorate the engagement between Richard II and Anne of Bohemia, a huge 700 line poem that fairly commonplace here in the UK by the 18th took him almost a year to finish. It was completed Century. Perhaps not the mass produced cards on 14th February, 1383 and was quite up to and gifts we know today – cards would have Chaucer’s usual character. Even in old English there been handmade, perhaps with lace or ribbon is no disputing the link, Chaucer wrote: and Cupid’s face taking the leading role but the “For this was on seynt Valentynes day, sentiment remains the same. Perhaps we are not Whan every foul cometh ther to chese his make,” so far removed from out ancestors as we thought? Which modernised, reads something like, “For Since the late 1960’s St Valentine’s has not been this was on Saint Valentines day, when every fowl recognised as a holiday within the catholic church cometh there to choose his mate.” and yet, even without the support of the Vatican ‘The Parliament of Fowl’s’ talks of birds’ mating it is estimated that 1 billion valentines cards are seasons – believed then to begin on February sent worldwide every year, making the lovers day 14th, the royal engagement and Valentines day – the second most celebrated holiday of the modern all linked by love as well as timing. world, right behind Christmas. Over the hundreds of years that have past since Last
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