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The Issue 122 - October 2016 VILLAGER and Town Life LOCAL NEWS • LOCAL PEOPLE • LOCAL SERVICES • LOCAL CHARITIES • LOCAL PRODUCTS In this issue Win tickets to the Festive Gift Fair Ghostly Goings On 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 FREEcopy @hoopersofl ondon VintageSALON, Avenue SPA & ACADEMY Opening hours Monday-Wednesday 10.00am-7.00pm Thursday 10.00am-9.00pm Friday 10.00am-8.00pm Saturday 9.00am-5.00pm Sunday Closed OUR LATEST OFFERS! Bronze Off er Roots and cut and fi nish with selected stylists. Current price – £52.00 Off er price – £45.00 Silver Off er Half head highlights or fullhead colour and cut and fi nish with selected stylists. Current price – £70.00 Off er price – £60.00 Gold Off er Full head of highlights and cut and fi nish with selected stylists. 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Rehoming Appeal ................................................................... 54 Animal Stories ..................................................................................... 56 Ask Alan - Potton Vets ......................................................................... 58 Paws for Thought with The Barkley ..................................................... 60 Children’s Page .................................................................................... 63 Renault Clio ......................................................................................... 65 Get Amazing Internet Everywhere ...................................................... 67 Nick Coffer’s Weekend Recipe .............................................................. 68 Time to Wine: France ........................................................................... 70 Fun Quiz .............................................................................................. 72 Ghostly Goings On 15 What’s On ............................................................................................ 74 Decadent Deco .................................................................................... 77 Portrait of an Artist ............................................................................... 4 Puzzle Page ......................................................................................... 80 Where Am I?.......................................................................................... 8 These Boots are made for Driving ........................................................ 83 Win Two Tickets to an Evening of Soul Music and Motown .................. 10 Prize Crossword ................................................................................... 86 Win Tickets to the Festive Gift Fair ....................................................... 12 Microchipping ..................................................................................... 89 Ghostly Goings On ............................................................................... 15 Wordsearch ......................................................................................... 90 Dyslexia............................................................................................... 16 Book Review ....................................................................................... 92 Keep Your Chimney Safe ...................................................................... 18 Bats About Bats ................................................................................... 23 Vatican City ......................................................................................... 26 Fighting Pain and Fatigue ................................................................... 28 Little Luxuries ..................................................................................... 31 Looking for a New Hobby - Big Sing Sunday ........................................ 32 Friendship Support, Help and Respite ................................................. 35 How to Wash Your Hands! .................................................................... 36 Sandy Town Council and Information Centre ....................................... 38 OCD Awareness Week .......................................................................... 41 The Battle of Hastings ......................................................................... 43 What Benefits and Concessions are You Entitled to? ............................ 44 Gamlingay Neighbourhood Plan ......................................................... 46 Tools of the Trade ................................................................................ 48 Bats About Bats 23 Rural Ramblings .................................................................................. 50 Editorial - Catherine Rose, Kate Duggan, Susan Brookes-Morris, Publishers Beds Fire & Rescue Service, Louise Addison, Solange Hando, RSPCA, Villager Publications Ltd Alison Runham, Pippa Greenwood, Geoff Wharton, Potton Vets, 24 Market Square, Potton, Bedfordshire SG19 2NP Rachael Leverton, Lucie Sanan, James Baggott, Nick Coffer, Trevor Tel: 01767 261122 Langley and Willow Coby [email protected] www.villagermag.com Advertising Sales/Local Editorial Nigel Frost - 01767 261122 Disclaimer - All adverts and editorial are printed in good faith, [email protected] however, Villager Publications Ltd can not take any responsibility Photography for the content of the adverts, the services provided by the Konstanttin and Darren Harbar Photography advertisers or any statements given in the editorial. No part of this publication may be reproduced or stored without the express Design and Artwork - Design 9 Tel 07762 969460 permission of the publisher. To advertise in The Villager and Town Life please call 01767 261122 History By Catherine Rose Portrait of Photo of Walter Sickert courtesy of Tate an Artist It is probably a to the famous artist little-known fact James McNeil Whistler. but the well-known Sickert was charged artist and member by the American of the Camden Town painter to take what Group, Walter Sickert is perhaps Whistler’s (1860-1942) has a most famous work link with Bedfordshire ‘Portrait of the Artist’s in that he once Mother’ to Paris. lived at 4 Windsor While undertaking Terrace, Bedford this, Sickert met and (off Goldington befriended Degas Road). This month, who was to become a The Villager takes second and perhaps a closer look at this even bigger influence brilliant and often on his work. controversial artist. Through Degas, he The eldest of six became acquainted children, Walter with other French Sickert was born in artists and writers Germany in 1860 but and spent time living the family came to in Dieppe where he England when he was developed a love of just eight. His father the French approach was also an artist and to art. But although Walter went on to study at the famous Slade heavily influenced by both Whistler and Degas, Art School in London. He was later to become Sickert went on to develop his own style and a member of the Royal Academy in 1924, and became a master at painting subjects from life. taught there from 1926. In 1928 he became In the same way that Degas, famous for his President of the British Art Society. dancers, and the French artist Toulouse Lautrec Sickert was part of the English avant-garde art loved painting performers and prostitutes, movement from 1907 to 1914 that championed Sickert would often frequent places like the old French artistic ideals of the late 19th and 20th Bedford Music Hall in London to draw the actors, centuries. He is perhaps unusual in that he for example his compelling painting ‘Minnie became famous as an artist before his death, Cunningham at the Old Bedford’ (1892) with its having two major retrospective exhibitions in predominantly red palette. 1929 and 1941. Described as a ‘charming and flamboyant’ His big break came when in 1882, a year after individual, Sickert was witty, multi-lingual and starting at the Slade, he became apprenticed always reinventing his appearance (for example, 4 Please mention The Villager and Town Life when responding to adverts The Old White Horse • 1 High Street • Biggleswade • SG18 0JE Tel: 01767 314344 www.lolineinteriors.co.uk e: [email protected] To advertise in The Villager and Town Life please call 01767 261122 5 in 1920 he shaved his head). He is now accepted Duke of Clarence (the Royal family and Sickert as one of the most influential artists of the period shared the same doctor). The Duke was reputed but his eccentricity and complex character to frequent prostitutes in the East End and have