The Weekend | February 13

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_lsjvtl With Valentine’s Day tomorrow we are really feeling the love at Weekend this week.

So in honour of the patron saint of lovers we have packed the pages of this issue with all sorts of ideas to ensure that you have a day filled with romance.

It’s been especially fun for me compiling the pages this week as I recently got engaged so at the moment everything is hearts and flowers!

We’ve got last minute gift ideas to suit all tastes and budgets, all available from shops in Bath,

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Emma Dance aphrodisiac foods to get you in the mood and ideas to turn your home into a real love nest.

There’s even a delicious recipe that you can cook at home to give your other half a special treat.

We also talk to rock guitarist Brian May and Kerry Ellis who are coming to Bath’s Theatre Royal this week, and of course there’s all the usual information about the great theatre, music and arts taking place in Bath this week.

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recent poll by George at Asda found that a whopping 83 per cent of women would like to receive lingerie from their partner on Valentine’s Day. But with more than half of men admitting that they don’t know their partner’s size, and the thought of negotiating the pitfalls of buying such an intimate present sending them into a state of panic, they are more likely to opt for safer choices like flowers or chocolates.

But buying lingerie doesn’t have to be stressful.

Soozie Jenkinson, head of lingerie design at Marks & Spencer, said: “Femininity and romance are at the top of our creative agenda when designing beautiful lingerie for Valentine’s Day. “We understand that every woman has her own unique

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Soozie Jenkinson, head of lingerie design, at Marks & Spencer has shared her top tips for buying lingerie this Valentine’s Day lingerie style, so whether she loves wearing sensual silk lingerie, wants to stand out from the crowd in the latest fashion styles, or perhaps she’s a pretty pyjama girl at heart, your loved one will be spoilt for choice with our stunning lingerie and sleepwear collections.

“Thoughtfully chosen lingerie can make a special and very personal gift, however for the lingerie novice, shopping for it can be a minefield!

Receiving great-fitting, stylish lingerie can deliver a huge confidence boost, so I have five top tips to help you choose the perfect Valentine’s Day gift.”

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Gifts scent with love Transform Valentine’s Day cliches into pampering bliss.

Lisa Haynes reveals how to bring some hearts and flowers to your bathroom

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fter that first flush of romance, gifts on Valentine’s Day can go downhill, but nobody wants a droopy service station rose or card from the bargain bin.

Create your own air of romance on February 14 with hearts, flowers, strawberries and champagne – of the beauty variety.

Whether you’re getting ready for a hot date or a romcom on DVD, make yourself feel like a million dollars with some indulgent beauty loving beforehand and transform your bathroom into a love shack with these heartfelt products.

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Get cosy this Valentine’s Day with interiors gifts designed to warm the heart. Gabrielle Fagan picks red, pink and white homeware to fall in love with

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or many of us, February 14 shines like a beacon of loveliness in the depths of a cold, dark winter. It’s the one day of the year when we don’t need an excuse to wear our hearts on our sleeves.

And thanks to the wonderful world of home interiors, we can show our loved ones just how much we care this Valentine’s Day, with on-trend typography prints and cushions, heart-print mugs and floral bedding.

So, give the bars and restaurants a miss this year and snuggle up at home with that special someone in your very own little love nest.

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osé wines come in all colours, styles and flavours… from the palest peach, delicate Riviera Rosé to the bold, Barbie-pink Californian ones.

There’s a pink wine there for everyone in some guise or other, and they are truly great food wines too. But it’s on Valentine’s Day that the wine world truly turns rosy. So here are my top choices to impress your date this year, with a few romantic reds thrown in too.

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Food and passion go hand-in-hand, with certain delicacies said to fan the flames, so what should you look for on your Valentine’s Day menu?

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or centuries, certain foods have been rumoured to have aphrodisiac properties.

Named after the goddess of love, Aphrodite, aphrodisiacs are thought to increase sexual desire.

According to The Cambridge World History of Food, aphrodisiacs were first

sought out as a remedy for various anxieties, including fears of inadequate performance, as well as a need to increase fertility.

The ancient list of aphrodisiacs included aniseed, basil, carrot, orchid bulbs, pistachio nuts, rocket, sage, turnips and river snails.

Of the foods to which aphrodisiac powers are traditionally attributed, fish, vegetables and spices have been the most popular throughout history.

Sadly, science has not identified any chemical agents that could cause a direct physiological reaction, but you can still have some fun with folklore – and some aphrodisiac ingredients might surprise you.

Here are ten foods which claim to spark the flames of passion.

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A two spoon choccie delight If there’s one day in the year when cooking should be a labour of love, it’s February 14.

But you don’t need to slave away over a three-course meal. Simply head to the kitchen, roll up your sleeves and make something sweet and sugary in the shape of a heart.

Most lovers would be more than happy to be given this delicious and beautiful bake, served with nothing other than two spoons.

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have been thinking about being old lately. Not the winter-of-life sans hair, sans teeth kind – nobody likes to think about that, even though if we’re lucky, it’s coming to us regardless – but ‘retirement’ old.

The sort of old that means you may be a bit forgetful, that it’s probably too late to leave your partner and move to Mexico to be a burlesque performer – the kind where people ignore you when you walk into a room, or worse, adopt a special, louder voice and smile more, because they pity you for being older than them, as if you were too slow and stupid to dodge life’s cruellest trick.

And let’s not be Californian about this. I’m sure there are old people out there who swear by base-jumping before breakfast, and feel fitter than ever as they hike up mountains and launch community appeals with naked calendars.

Good for them. But for most of us, old age is less enthusiastic than that.

It may have its rewards – wisdom, free time, grandchildren, happy memories, a sense of perspective – but it also has its painful challenges – bereavement, illness, physical impairment, and simple lack of energy.

But talking to older people, increasingly aware that their youthful personalities and brains are not gone, only hidden, by wrinkles and stopping and grey hair, it becomes increasingly ridiculous that so many are ignored and overlooked by the rushing hordes

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as ‘sweet’ as though the fact that they’re a bit deaf means they’ve regressed to being three; good for nothing more than gummily charming the grown-ups.

It’s as though what they’ve learned, achieved or experienced counts for nothing, because they have passed into a place we don’t recognise.

They walk among us but are not of us, the marked people, who remind us of our own fate – bent, ill, failing – and so we walk on by, or congratulate ourselves on our kindness as we help them across the road, or suppress a sigh in the post office because arthritis makes counting change difficult and we have a fast-track parcel to send.

But it truth, we’re frightened of them.

The elderly are a living portrait of Dorian Grey, showing us our future, and we’d rather stick in the attic and go about our business than confront the reality.

Society is set up to treat them as an inconvenience, with their pensions and their fuel bills and their care homes, making us feel guilty. But the fact is, ‘they’ are ‘us’. When I was 18 I couldn’t imagine being 40. I pitied the lumbering, middle-aged dinosaurs who worried about wearing cardigans and got tired before midnight.

I thought I’d dodge the bullet, and stay my cool, careless self forever. But years went by, without my permission – and I became middle aged. I can only assume, on that basis, that old age will happen too. I’ll still be the same person – but on the outside, I will be unrecognisable. And while old-age feistiness is to be welcomed, I suspect I may not feel like wearing purple and rattling my stick against railings. I may just want to be treated as a person, and not an embarrassing inconvenience.

Flic Everett is a journalist and author who has written for The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, Elle and Red magazine of the young.

Loneliness is such a huge problem nowadays – but still, we shrink from offering our friendship – (“companionship” is only ever used in the context of the elderly, and frankly, it’s patronising). Or we refer to the over 70s

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egendary Queen guitarist Brian May and singer Kerry Ellis have teamed up for a brand new show to be performed in Bath this week. The duo will be performing versions of Queen classics, alongside a number of their personal favourite songs for their Candlelight Concerts tour.

Audiences in Bath will be able to catch the duo at the Theatre Royal on Sunday, February 23 for a show that promises to tell a story.

Guitarist May is well known for performing with Queen, and frequently wrote songs for the band.

He said the show will be very intimate and that anything could happen: “The Candlelight Concerts take us back to the old-style tours; they are very intimate and tell a story.

“I am a guitarist, and I just love to make a noise, and in this tour I really do.

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Laura Tremelling talks to former Queen guitarist Brian May and West End singer Kerry Ellis ahead of their show in Bath

and singing, and working with Kerry is brilliant as she is a singer in a million.

“The best thing about this tour is that really anything can happen.”

The partnership between May and Ellis began when Ellis created the role of Meat in Queen’s epic musical We Will Rock You. She then went on to star as the Green Witch in the musical Wicked, before releasing her debut album Anthems in 2010, produced by May. Ellis said she enjoys working with May,

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She said: “I am so excited to be taking to the road with the Candlelight Concerts.

“I can’t tell you how much I enjoy performing these songs with Brian and what fun we have with the audiences in these intimate settings.

“The best thing about the tour is the fantastic audience interaction; they really love to get involved, which is great.

“The concert has an intimate feel, and it is lovely to see people singing and dancing away.”

In a show with so many amazing songs it would be hard to pick a favourite.

However Ellis and May both have a soft spot for their version of Dust in the Wind by the American rock band Kansas.

May said: “It is very

hard to pick a favourite, as there are so many and we love all the songs we do.

“However I do really enjoy performing Dust in the Wind, and it always goes down very well.”

May said he spends a lot of time in Bath and is looking forward to returning.

He was named as the new patron of the Herschel Museum of Astronomy last month, stepping into the role left vacant by Sir Patrick Moore.

May said: “I seem to spend a big part of my life in Bath, which is wonderful as it is a beautiful city.

“I am very honoured to be the new patron of the Herschel Museum of Astronomy, as astrophysics is one of my passions.”

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Weston Village Gardening Club Vegetables, Jane Moore, Head Gardener, The Priory Hotel, 7.30pm. All Saints Church, Weston, Bath. Visitors £5.

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BACAS AGM – Updates on BACAS projects, 7.30pm. BRLSI, Queen Square, Bath

Humanitarian Photographer Giles Duley Will talk about his photography and experiences, 6.30pm. St Michael’s Church, Broad Street, Bath. Tickets £15/£10 from The Royal Photographic Society 01225 325733

Golden Oldies 10.30-11.30am. Community Room, Kingsmead Court, Bath

Baby Time Free fun and support for parents with under-1s, 10am-noon. Barnardo’s Children’s Centre, Kings Avenue, Corsham. 01249 716254

Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Bath Branch For all levels, 1.30-4.30pm.

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Mr Wilkins’ Shilling Women’s Northwest Morris 8-10pm. Methodist Church Hall, Northend, Batheaston. New dancers always welcome. 01225 869086

Bath Good Afternoon Choir No auditions, everyone welcome, 2-4pm. Argyle Hall,

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Wildlife on my Doorstep by Philip Mugridge, 7.30pm. Baptist Church Hall, High Street, Keynsham. Adults £2.50/children £1

Rubber Bridge (ACOL)

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Knit Club at Great British Yarns All knitters welcome. 7-9pm.

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Songways Community Choir Fun, rewarding and open to all, 10am-noon, term time. St Swithin’s Church, The Paragon, Bath. £8. songways.co.uk

Bath Spa Band

10.30-11.30am. Community Room, Carpenters Lane, Keynsham

Avonside Bridge Club Duplicate Bridge, 7 for 7.15pm.

Southdown Community Centre, The Hollow, Southdown, Bath. £3 table money

Bath Cycling Club 9.15am from Cadence Bike Shop, Chelsea Road, Bath and take in a circular route of 25 easy miles

Bath Organic Community Garden Beginners and experienced gardeners welcome, 10am-1pm.

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Walcot St, Bath

Saturday

Brass players and percussionists welcome. Rehearsals 8-10pm.

Elim Pentecostal Church, Charlotte Street, Bath

Tomorrow Box Gardening Club

Talk on Prior Park Garden Centre

Lavender and its by products, speaker Judith Green, 7.30pm.

Selwyn Hall, Corsham

Speaker John Tucker, 7.30pm. St Thomas a Becket Church, Box. Retiring collection in aid of friends of St Thomas a Becket Church

Over 100 ciders and perries on offer, 7.30-11pm. Strictly over 18. Pavilion, North Parade, Bath.

Tickets £7 adv/£8 door. Sat

Bath circular walk, 3hrs, 4.5 miles. Start 10am at Pulteney Bridge

Animals to care for and enjoy plenty of countryside activities for 8s and over, 10am-4pm.

Carlingcott, nr Peasedown. To book 07595034383

Rubber Bridge (ACOL)

10.30am-4.30pm. Bath Artists Studios, Upper Bristol Road, Bath. Cost £35. To book 07752 879184

Cider Festival – Also Sat Feb 15

Cotswold Voluntary Wardens Walk

Dad’s Group Free fun for under-5’s, 10-11am.

Barnardo’s Children’s Centre, Kings Avenue, Corsham. 01249 716254

Bath Saturday Antiques Flea Market

Green Park Market 9am-4.pm including Baths Farmers’ Market 9am-1.30pm.

Green Park Station, Bath

Sunday

Grand Clearance Sale Bric-a-brac, books, collectibles etc, 10am-3pm. Bath Cats and Dogs Home, The Avenue, Claverton Down, Bath.

Refreshments available

Antiques & Collectors Fair 9.30am-3.30pm. Conygre Hall, Timsbury. Entrance 50p

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Green Park Station, Bath

Bath Cycling Club Malmesbury Summer Cafe, 9am.

Club run starts from Cleveland Bridge, aim to return by 1-1.30pm. 01225 426467 or 07944550933

Dry Arch Growers Bathampton Community co-op producing food for the local area. Volunteers and helpers required, 11am-4pm. End of Holcombe Lane, Bathampton.

07972 564641

Spiritualist Meeting 6.30pm service. Corston Village Hall, Sanctuary of the Cross Spiritualist Church

Quiz Night Cross keys, Midford Road, Bath 8pm. In aid of Dorothy House

Reiki Courses Weekly For all levels, 2 day courses.

Reiki Treatment also available, 10am & 4pm. Corsham area. To book 01249 715179

Monday

Children’s Holiday Club – To Thurs Feb 20 Activities include singing, quizzes, Bible Stories and craft, 10am-noon. Manvers Gospel Hall, Old Orchard Street, Bath.

Free

Children’s Medieval Craft Workshops Activities include brass rubbing, candle making, apothecary, manuscript writing, games and storytelling, all ages, booking not essential. Daily 11am-noon. 3 Church Street, between the Abbey Churchyard and Abbey

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Keynsham & Saltford Local History Society Talk on The Keynsham Talking Newspaper, 7.30pm. The Key Centre, Victoria Methodist Church, Charlton Road, Keynsham. Visitors welcome, £2.50

The Women’s Royal Army Corps Association Meet 2pm. Manvers Street Baptist Church, Bath. 01225 339904 for details

Oldfield Park Community Knitting Group 10am-noon. Upper Room above the Office at Ascension Church, Oldfield Park, Bath

Golden Oldies 2.30-3.30pm. Community Room, Trinity Road, Combe Down, Bath

Literature and Humanities Who’s Who: biography and biographer, Adrian Tinniswood, 7.30pm. BRLSI, Queen Square, Bath

HumBugs Singing Group Love to sing? Bring your baby or toddler along too! 9.30-10.30am term-time only. St Saviour’s Church, Larkhall, Bath. 07940 597427

Masonic Museum Guided tours throughout the year, also on Wed and Thurs, 11am or 2.30pm. Sat 2.30pm only. 12 Old Orchard Street, Bath. 01225 462233

2nd Bath Girls Brigade Meet every Monday, 6.30-8pm.

The Ascension Church, Oldfield Park, Bath. 01761 416515

Bath Spa Band Brass players and percussionists welcome. Rehearsals 8-10pm.

Elim Pentecostal Church, Charlotte Street, Bath

Social Bridge 1.30 for 1.45pm (not bank holidays). Museum of Bath at Work, Julian Road, Bath. 01225 310232

Bradford Bridge Club

Bath Storytelling Circle

Come and play duplicate bridge, 7-10pm. The Swan Hotel, Bradford on Avon. 01225 865669 or 01225 863072

Supporting the oral tradition through stories, songs and poems, 8 for 8.15pm. Upstairs at the Raven, Queen Street, Bath.

Free entry

7-8.30pm. John Williams Room, United Reformed Church, Grove Street, Bath. £6 per class

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Meditation Classes in Bath

Sing & Smile Creative Links Singing Group 2-4pm. United Reformed Church, Grove Street, Bath.

01761 438852 to book

Tuesday Coffee Morning

10.15-11.30am. The Crypt, St Michael’s Church, Broad Street, Bath. Admission £1 includes cup of coffee. In aid of Children’s Hospice South West

Wellsway TG Social event, 2.30pm. St Luke’s Church Centre, Wellsway, Bath.

01225 427448

Midsomer Norton TG Ships in Bottles, speaker Alan Rogers, 2pm. St John the Baptist Church Hall, Midsomer Norton.

01761 413528

Fosseway TG Cookery Afternoon with Audrey Penfold, 2.30pm. Foxhill Community Centre, Combe Down, Bath. 01225 840637

Bath VA Vintage & Antiques Market Green Park Station, Bath

Cotswold Voluntary Wardens Walk Box, Wiltshire, 3hrs, 5.5 miles.

Start 10am Selwyn Hall car park

Half Term Activity Workshop Wicked Weaponry, armour, swords and pistols,

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10.30-11.30am & 11.30am-12.30pm. Advance booking essential, book at coolbookings@brlsi.org. BRLSI, Queen Square, Bath

World Affairs

Branch

For all levels, 7.30-9.30pm. Ralph Allen School, Bath

Meditation on Twin Hearts

Wellbeing and Social Justice, Dr S Deneulin, 7.30pm. BRLSI, Queen Square, Bath

7.45-9pm. Funky Monkey Studio, 18 St Peters Terrace, Lower Bristol Road, Bath. 07516 500 569

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The History of Farming and the Cotswold Landscape, speaker Mark Connelly, 7.30pm.

Methodist Church, Box

Cotswold Wardens led Walk 10am. Please wear suitable clothing and footwear and bring a mid-walk snack and drink.

Meet recreation car park, Box

Corsham Knitting & Crochet Group Knit and natter, 10am-noon.

Corsham Community Centre

Salsa Classes Complete beginners, 8pm. No need to bring a partner.

Revolution, George Street, Bath. £7/£5

Sakya Buddhist Group How our conditioned mind creates obstacles to realisation, 8pm. The Museum of Bath at Work, Julian Road, Bath

Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Bath

Quilting groups from all over the region demonstrate their talents and chat with visitors in the Textiles Room, noon-4pm.

American Museum, Claverton Down, Bath

Singing for the Brain Singing to bring people with dementia and their carers together, 2.30-4pm. West Free Church (Moravian), High Street, Weston, Bath. 07540 921035

Songways Community Choir 10am-noon, term time. St Swithin’s Church, The Paragon, Bath. £8. songways.co.uk

Sing Alive Community Choir 10am-noon (term time). United Reform Church, Bradford on Avon. All welcome

Bath Organic Community Garden Beginners and experienced gardeners welcome, 10am-1pm.

Victoria Park, Bath. 01225 311699

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Sahaja Yoga Free meditation, 7.30-9pm. 2nd floor URC Halls, Grove Street, Bath

Avonside Bridge Club

Bath Bridge Club Duplicate Bridge with Masterpoints, start 7.15pm. Bath Football Club Rooms, Twerton High Street, Bath. 01225 310326

Wednesday BiPolar UK Bath Meeting

7pm. United Reform Church, Grove Street, Bath

7.45-10pm. Bath Central United Reform Church, Grove Street, Bath. £4 per class

Scottish Country Dancing For beginners and improvers, 7.30-9.30pm. New Oriel Hall, Larkhall, Bath. 01225 319991 for details

Drop-In Meditation

Club Rooms, Twerton High Street, Bath

Social Duplicate Bridge 7.15pm. Randalls (Bath City FC) Twerton Park, Bath. All welcome, visitors table money is £4

Bradford Bridge Club Come and play duplicate bridge, 7-10pm. The Swan Hotel, Bradford on Avon. 01225 865669/863072

Bridge Club

Travelling – Sinai Desert, speaker Susan O’Callaghan, 7.30pm.

Moravian Church Hall, Weston, Bath. 01225 310719

An opportunity to learn a simple type of meditation which helps finds a calm space in the midst of our busy lives, 10.30am. Museum of Bath at Work, Julian Road, Bath. £3. 07966 365633

1.15-4.30pm. Village Hall, Bathampton. £1 per session.

01225 462965

Jane Austen Dancers

Bath Bridge Club

Whist Drive

Dance Regency and late Georgian Period dances,

Two afternoon sessions, 1.40pm start. Venue at Bath Football

7-9pm, £2 including a raffle, Weston Parish Hall, Weston

Duplicate Bridge, 7 for 7.15pm.

Southdown Community Centre, The Hollow, Southdown, Bath. £3 table money

Weston Village TG

Boules/Petanque 11am to 1pm Queen Square (off when raining). Just turn up and play

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Village, Bath

Knit Club at Great British Yarns All knitters welcome, 10.30am-12.30pm. Unit 9, Brassmill Enterprise Centre, Brassmill Lane, Bath. 01225 462776

Greensprouts Parent and Toddler Session Craft, singing, storytime, snack and lots of play, 10am-noon.

Laurel Farm, Carlingcott, nr Peasedown. £3 a session. 01761 420204

Bath Welcome Choir No auditions, everyone welcome, 7.45-9.30pm. Upper Hall, Culverhay, Bath. £4

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Diamonds Are Forever Crowds gathered to celebrate the reopening of Nicholas Wylde’s jewellery store in Northumberland Place.

Last year the store was devastated by fire, not long after Nicholas had celebrated 25 years in business.

But within a week Nicholas was up and running again, trading in a temporary shop in The Corridor.

But now he has returned to his old store, which has quite literally risen like a phoenix from the ashes.

Actor Robert Powell did the honours of cutting the ribbon, before the crowds were invited inside to see the refurbished store and to try their luck at unlocking a vault to win a special Valentine’s competition.

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Joyous Gyles’ engaging show or almost two decades, Gyles Brandreth has been searching for the secrets of happiness.

The result of that exploration is Looking For Happiness, a funny, erudite and engaging stage show, which is launching onto a national tour having been lapped up by critics and audiences alike at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe.

“I’m fascinated by happiness,” says Gyles, “what it is, who gets it and how. It’s been a real journey.

“My search coincided with having lost my father and my best friend. My sister died and then my brother died: they were going down like flies around me. And I thought, here I am, the professional happy man with the colourful jumpers, turning up on TV grinning away in the jolly knitwear. I was annoyingly happy.

“But inside it was a different story, so I started this search.

“The last stand-up show I did was about the famous people I’d met and I stood up on stage and told funny stories about that. But this time I wanted to talk about this search for happiness.”

After a great deal of research, toil and fun, Brandreth has boiled it all down to the seven secrets of happiness. There’s too much selfishness going around, Brandreth believes, too much focus on the individual.

Gyles said: “One of the things I learned was to avoid inward looking and to get away from narcissism; it’s interesting to me that the Brownies and Girl Guides have changed their oath to say something along the lines of discovering what your beliefs are, and discovering the real me.

“Well, actually, we don’t want to discover the real me: stop thinking about yourself.

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There are people going around taking pictures of themselves, a selfie, and sending them everywhere: well, this doesn’t make you happy.”

Among the other secrets, Brandreth states ‘live in the moment, ‘don’t resist change’ and, more bluntly, ‘be happy’. But there is one rule that he believes might well over-ride all others and he’s witnessed close at hand what happens if you don’t ‘cultivate a passion’.

He may have cultivated many passions in life, but if you had to pick one key fascination it’s surely his love of language.

He said: “My father was a lawyer and my mother was a teacher, so words were very important to me as a child. I learned to play Scrabble very young, and used to play it with an older gentleman who was the founder of my school.

“This gentleman died aged 102 and I played with him into his 90s.

“Incredibly, he had been a friend of Oscar Wilde’s! He would use these words that were arcane and obsolete but he’d say that they were current when he learned them.”

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Box Tale Soup, who are appearing at the Mission Theatre in Bath on Saturday can conjure up the world of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey with just two performers, a vintage trunk and a troupe of puppets.

The Jane Austen adaptation takes place in the evening, but in the afternoon you can take the whole family to watch Alice in Wonderland performed in the same way.

Tickets are on 01225 463362.

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With their passionless husbands away playing golf, a mutual long-ago lover announces his intention to pay Julia and Jane an impromptu visit.

All in a fluster, there’s clearly only one thing to do: hit the bottle! Or rather, open the bubbly.

As each successive glass of champagne loosens their tongues, hidden jealousies surface, the claws come out, and all attempts at demure behaviour go out the window. But it’s not until the unexpected early return of their golfing husbands that the women’s evening really hits its frenzied peak.

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Tickets £13/£10

£10/£8 (Northanger Abbey)

Sawclose, Bath Tel: 01225 448844 To Sat Feb 15 The Full Monty

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Sawclose, Bath Tel: 01225 448844 Thurs 13-Sun Feb 16 Wanted: Rabbit

Larkhall, Bath Tel: 01225 333844 Thurs Feb 13 Robin Ince: Three Works in Progress at Once

Mon-Wed 7.30pm, Thurs-Sat 8pm, matinees Wed & Sat 2.30pm. Tickets £20.50-£36.50 Mon Feb 17-Sat Mar 1 Fallen Angels Starring Jenny Seagrove and Sara Crowe, Mon-Wed 7.30pm, Thurs-Sat 8pm, matinees Wed & Sat 2.30pm. Tickets £17.50-£33.50

Ustinov Monmouth Street, Bath Box Office 01225 448844 Thurs Feb 13 Visitors Visitors takes a haunting, beautiful look at the way our lives slip past us, 8pm. Tickets £13/£10 Fri 14-Sat Feb 15 The Wardrobe Ensemble presents 33 A tale of friendship, hope and Elvis Presley, 33 is an outlandish, touching and funny modern legend of men on the brink of death, fame and madness, 8pm.

For children aged 3+, Thurs & Sun 11.30am & 3pm, Fri & Sat 11.30am, 1pm & 3pm. Tickets £7.50/£6.50 Mon Feb 17 Hansel and Gretel Storyteller Michael Loader will be spinning spells of good and evil, age 5+, 11.30am & 3pm.

Tickets £7.50/£6.50 Wed 19-Sat Feb 22 Grandpa’s Railway A tale of adventures, surprises and dreams, age 5+, Wed 3pm, Thurs-Sat 11.30am & 3pm.

Tickets £7.50/£6.50

Mission Theatre Corn Street, Bath Tel: 01225 463362 Sat Feb 15 Alice in Wonderland & Northanger Abbey Alice in Wonderland, 2.30pm and Northanger Abbey, 7.30pm. Tickets £8/£6 (Alice),

This week we have a box for two people to watch Fallen Angels at the Theatre Royal Bath on Monday, February 17, at 7.30pm to give away.

Just answer the following question, put your answer on a postcard and send it with your name and telephone number and preferred date to Fallen Angels Competition, The Bath Chronicle, Westpoint, James Street West, Bath BA1 2DA. The first correct answer out of the hat on Monday will get the tickets. The question is: Who wrote Fallen Angels?

Stand-up comedy, 8pm. Tickets £12/£10 Sat Feb 15 John Robins: Where is My Mind?

Stand-up comedy, 8pm. Tickets £10 Wed 19-Sat Feb 22 Antigone Theatre, 8pm. Tickets £10/£8

Komedia 22 to 23 Westgate Street, Bath. Box office 0845 293 8480 Fri Feb 14 The Noise Next Door’s Comedy Lock-In – Valentine’s Special

8pm. Tickets £17 adv Wed Feb 19 Rob Beckett: Live

Zenith Youth Theatre

Comedy, 8pm. Tickets £22.50/£12 adv/£10

Tickets 01225 835301 Wed 19-Sat Feb 22 Les Misérables

Pound Arts Pound Pill, Corsham. Box Office 01249 7016280 Sat Feb 22 Freehand Theatre Who’s been Sitting in My Chair?

A delightful and playful version of a well-known tale, with porridge and bears and one-two-three chairs, 3pm.

Tickets £6.50/£5.50/£20 family

ICIA University of Bath Bath University ICIA Arts Theatre

8pm. Tickets £22.50/£12 adv Sat Feb 15 Krater Comedy Club

Box office 01225 386777 To Wed April 16 Art Classes in Bath

Comedy, 8.30pm. Tickets £45/£28.50/£18/£14.50/£10 Mon Feb 17 Gyles Brandreth: Looking For Happiness

A range of exciting and eclectic classes and workshops in music, dance, theatre and visual arts for all levels, aged 16+. Book on the above number

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Kingswood Theatre, Lansdown Road, Bath

A epic musical of all time, Wed-Fri 7.30pm, Sat 2.30pm & 7.30pm. Tickets £12/£10, matinees £8

Box Panto Group Selwyn Hall, Box Tickets from Stop Press Wed 19-Sat Feb 22 Sleeping Beauty Wed 6.30pm, Thurs-Sat 7.30pm, Sat matinee 1.30pm.

Adults £6.50, Children £5

Live Theatre Doynton Village Hall, near Bath Tickets Tel 0117 9372556 Sat Feb 15 Heath Robinson meets Albert Einstein Logic of Nothing blends clowning, juggling, magic and invention, 5.30pm. Suitable for adults and children aged 7+. £8 adults, £4.50 children, £20 family

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The festival is masterminded

by Amelia Freedman, who is the woman behind the programming of the hugely successful Bath Mozartfest and a one-time director of the Bath International Music Festival.

This year’s Bach extravaganza opens on Thursday February 20 with The Cardinall’s Musick directed by Andrew Carwood at St Mary’s Church Bathwick.

This is billed as a programme of work

by Bach and his French contemporaries, which in this case includes composers like Rameau, Lully and Schutz.

Bach’s music is set in the context of his times while there is a sequence of intimate motets by his French contemporaries ending with Charpentier’s dramatic mini oratorio describing St Peter’s denial of Christ.

On Friday you can hear cellist Colin Carr play two of the Bach cello suites – numbers four and five – in a lunchtime recital in the Guildhall while the evening concert is at the Assembly Rooms.

There will be the Academy of Ancient music with director Richard Tognetti on violin.

The theme for the evening is Italianate Bach which means pieces like the Brandenburg Concerto No 3 placed alongside concertos by Vivaldi, Pisendel and of course Vivaldi.

On Saturday morning you can hear violinist Christian Tetzlaff playing

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The concluding concert of the festival will be in Bath Abbey on Saturday night, when the New London Consort conducted by Philip Pickett performs Bach’s Mass in B Minor.

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They meld a diverse range of genres – swing, rhythm and blues, ska, Dixieland, rockabilly, calypso – culminating in a punked-up swing-ska sound.

They are trailblazers for new artists enjoying the resurgence of interest in pre-war music.

Naturally fusing these musical influences into an instantly recognisable and contemporary sound, they avoid the trap of mere nostalgia and simple gimmicks.

A memorable name on the live circuit now for a decade, performing over a thousand gigs on stages of all shapes and sizes, the Zen Hussies are very much a live band, long renowned for their high energy and marathon length sets, gregarious showmanship, deft

musicianship and good humour alike.

The Zen Hussies prove popular with DJs and fans across Europe and beyond, with recent releases in Japan enjoying much success.

The play Bath Chapel Arts Centre, tomorrow.

Doors open at 7.30pm and tickets cost £10 on the door.

■ Visit www.zenhussies.com for further information.

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Fresh off the back of the three-times-BBC-Folk-Award nominated collaboration Mawkin:Causley, Mawkin

are now forging a bold new sound that strengthens their instrumental roots and embraces a new, exuberant exploration into the traditional folk canon from the British Isles and beyond.

Mawkin features the mesmerising guitar of David Delarre, the carnal beats of drummer and percussionist Lee Richardson underpinning richly textured bass lines from Danny Crump,

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Schubert Symphony No 9, 7.30pm. Bath Abbey. Tickets £28/£21/£15

A mix of new and classic Indie rock and pop, 9.30pm. Moles, Bath. £4/£3

Gordie Mackeeman and His Rhythm Boys

Blow

Acoustic Oak Music Club 8pm, Singers night. Floor Spots.

The Royal Oak, Corsham. Entry £2

Bath Cantata Group Evening practices, 7.45pm. New singers welcome. St Stephen’s Church, Lansdown, Bath

Karaoke With DJ Jay, 8pm-3am.

Mandalyns, Fountain Buildings, Bath

The Derrick Oldroyde Trio plus Special Guest Andy Barrett, guitar, 8.30pm.

The Inn at Freshford

Bath Philharmonia Peter Donohoe in Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 with

Roots, 7.30pm. The Pound, Pound Pill, Corsham. Tickets £12/£11

Blues Night 8.30pm. Swan Hotel, Bradford-on-Avon. Free admission

Tomorrow Implode Live Music Night

8.30pm every Friday. Belushis, Bath

Live Music Every Friday from 9pm. The Huntsman Inn, Bath

Open Mic Night 8pm. The Village Pump Folk, Lamb Inn, Mortimer Street, Trowbridge. £3

Jazz Event

Savannah Jazz Band, 8pm.

Mount Pleasant Social Club, Bradford-on-Avon. £10

Saturday

Holburne Museum Evening Concert Concert 5: Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle, Peter Donohoe, 7.30pm. Holburne Museum, Great Pulteney Street, Bath.

Tickets £24

and a host of wild and emotive melodies from the frenetic fiddling fingers of James Delarre inter-playing with the virtuosic bellowing of Nick Cooke’s melodeon.

Mawkin are in Bath on Saturday, February 22.

Tickets are on sale now from the Theatre Royal Bath Box Office on 01225 448844, or online at www.theatreroyal.org.uk/ustinov

Manvers Street Baptist Church, Bath

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A friendly choir conducted by Jane Lilley, all abilities catered for, 6.15-7.45pm term-time. The Huntsman, Bog Island, Bath. £5 per session. For details Susanna Downes 07717173799

A host of DJs playing a mix of Rock, Punk and Metal, 9.30pm-2am. PoNaNa nightclub, Bath. £5 entry

Tuesday The Big Cheese

Sunday

Every Tuesday. Expect all the cheesiest tunes, from 10pm.

Moles, Bath. £4/£3.50 NUS

Every Sunday, amazing acoustic music, all performers get drink and food offers, 7-10pm. The Tramshed, Beehive Yard, Bath

Bradford-on-Avon Folk Club

Open Mic

Monday

The Croutons, superb vocal harmony singing. Floorspots, 8pm. The Cellar Bar, Swan Hotel, Church Street, Bradford-on-Avon. Free entry

Curfew Inn, Cleveland Place, West, Bath 8pm. Free

Little Comets

Sublime Blues

The Silver Ring Choir Love to sing? Join us at 7.45pm.

Wednesday

Doors 7.30pm. Komedia, Westgate Street, Bath. Tickets £11 adv

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Karaoke With DJ Jay, 8pm. Mandalyns, Fountain Buildings, Bath

Old Crown Quiz 9pm. Old Crown, Weston Village, Bath

Lunchtime Recital Woodford Piano Trio, 1pm. The Pound, Pound Pill, Corsham.

Tickets £6/£5

Seend Acoustic Club Local singer/songwriter David Waddington, support from tba.

Floor singers welcome, 8pm.

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ostra Gallery on George Street, Bath is celebrating Valentine’s Day by showcasing a special selection of prints, paintings and ceramics alongside an enchanting collection of hand made jewellery that is bound to tug at ythe heart strings.

Works by Trevor Price, Theo Booth, Jazmin Velasco, Bev Milward, Emma Birts, Julia Parry-Jones, Natalie Salisbury, Kim Styles and many more are on display.

Indulge with Trevor Price’s coloured etchings which represent the intimacy between a couple, sometimes

Nick Cudworth Gallery

to Sun June 29. Bennett Street, Bath

Exhibition of oil paintings and prints by Nick Cudworth, Under the Bridges of Bath, to Fri Feb 28. 5 London Street, Bath

Victoria Art Gallery

Museum of East Asian Art Exhibition, Eastern Voices in the West Country and Treasures,

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Exhibition, Anna Dougherty, What’s Inside, explores how everyday objects hold many kinds of meanings and Peter Brown, Keeping the home fire burning, over fifty new oil paintings and drawings celebrating the streets of Bath,

to Thurs Mar 27, Tues-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1.30-5pm, closed Monday’s. Pulteney Bridge, Bath

Hilton Fine Art Exhibition, Signs of Colour: Derek Balmer, Rose Hilton and Paul Wadsworth, to Sat Mar 1.

5 Margarets Buildings, Bath

Bath Artists’ Studios Exhibition, Heart Bath, Elise

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romantic, sometimes erotic and often humorous.

Inspired by the way people interact and behave Theo Booth’s acrylic paintings contain bold colour and strong imagery.

Bev Milward’s fine porcelain sculptures evoke emotion and sentimentality and make the perfect present for that special someone.

Alongside a wide array of jewellery awaits for those with gifts on their mind.

Highlights include Julia Parry-Jones’ intricate nesting jewels or Natalie Salisbury’s fine lace detail on gold or silver necklaces, earrings and bracelets.

Menghini, to Wed Feb 12, 11am-5pm. The Old Malthouse, Comfortable Place, Bath

The Pound Exhibition: Bath Textile Artists.

The Artists have been inspired by the wealth of the Wiltshire landscape and history to create pieces using a variety of different techniques, to Sat Mar 22. Pound Pill, Corsham

BRLSI Exhibition, Photographer Giles Duley, titled Afghanistan 2012, Thurs 13-Wed Feb 19. Queen Square, Bath

Bath Contemporary Featured artist Victoria Gamberoni’s figures float suspended in a tapestry of soft brushstrokes, Sat Feb 15-Sat Mar 8. 35 Gay Street, Bath

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Books of the week

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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, William Dalrymple

The team from Topping & Co booksellers give their pick of what’s on the shelves this week

An historic account of Britain’s first invasion of Afghanistan in 1839.

20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established Shah Shuja ul-Mulk on the throne. After two years of occupation, the country exploded into violent rebellion. The British were routed and suffered their greatest military defeat and humiliation of the nineteenth century. This is an incredibly relevant and timely account from which it is impossible not to draw parallels with today. Well-written, gripping, and thought-provoking, this is the definitive book on the subject.

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Love Letters of the Great War, Mandy Kirkby

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Amy Adams

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cross section of some of the world’s favourite film actresses will be fighting it out for this year’s best actress award in next month’s Oscars.

They are Amy Adams for her role in American Hustle, Cate Blanchett who appears in Blue Jasmine, Sandra Bullock who stars in Gravity, Judi Dench from Philomena and finally Meryl Streep who has been nominated for her role in August: Osage County.

Amy Lou Adams plays Sydney Prosser, a con artist in American Hustle who persuades a small-time operator to expand the scope of his scams.

She has been nominated for five Academy Awards, five Golden Globes (winning one), six Screen Actors Guild Awards, four BAFTA Awards, and nine BFCA Awards (winning four).

She made her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous. She was cast in the role of Brenda Strong in 2002’s Catch Me If You Can, and her breakthrough role was in the 2005 film Junebug, playing Ashley Johnsten, for which she received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Cate Blanchett has been nominated for a best actress Oscar for her performance as a New York socialite on the decline in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.

Cate has received several accolades, including three Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, and an Academy Award.

She came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I in the 1998 film Elizabeth, for which she won the

In three weeks the movie world celebrates what has been a remarkable year for cinema. We continue our countdown with a look at the best actresses

British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and Golden Globe awards, and earned her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

In 2004, Blanchett’s portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator brought her numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Sandra Bullock portrays Ryan Stone, a medical engineer who finds herself stranded in space during her first shuttle mission.

Sandra rose to fame in the 1990s with roles in films such as Demolition Man (1993), Speed (1994), The Net (1995), While You Were Sleeping (1995), A Time to Kill (1996), and Hope Floats (1998).

She won her first Academy Award for her role in The Blind Side.

Judi Dench plays Philomena, a woman searching for the child she was forced to give up for adoption years ago. Dame Judi’s film appearances were infrequent until she was cast as M in GoldenEye (1995), a role she continued to play in James Bond films through to Skyfall (2012). She received several notable film awards for her role as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown (1997),

Meryl Streep

and has since been acclaimed for her work in such films as Shakespeare in Love (1998), receiving the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Chocolat (2000), Iris (2001), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) and Notes on a Scandal (2006).

Meryl Streep portrays Violet Weston, an Oklahoma matriarch whose three grown daughters return home for their father’s funeral.

She is widely regarded as one of the best living American film actresses with both critical and commercial success coming quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), followed by, among others, Sophie’s Choice (1982), Out of Africa (1985), Mamma Mia! (2008) and playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011).

She has received 18 Academy Award nominations, winning three.

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