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10 FOR WOMEN
My daughter and F had a serious Housewives of rain to ask some man called Tom
falling-out recently. The contest- for help when their homes are in
ants for the Krypton Factor had the world a mess. And the feminists have
not helped either. I only feel bad
been introduced - three men and
4,. one woman. Now normally makes a resolution for about staying at home to bring up
Elizabeth Wood
my own children when I meet a
Rachel would have been rooting
Career Woman who writes me
for the woman from the start,
1989
off as a cabbage.
(have you noticed how sexist the
This novel suggestion began
And then of course there are
average eight-year old can be?).
"She won't do very well," de- to go down rather well as the the politicians, bless 'em. For
clared the child of my flesh, woman landed a jumbo jet with several years it was suggested that
"She's only a housewife." Only? ease and constructed a grand- women should stay at home and
New Year Offer After a few deep breaths and a lot father clock from a few plastic stop taking jobs that any unem-
ends 31st Jan '89 of silent counting I ventured to cogs and a length of string. But ployed man would give his right
point out that the woman in when she trailed in fourth place arm for. (Actually I've never met
£12.50
Perm
question might only be a tempo- in the obstacle race and failed to a man who would dream of doing
Cut/Blow Dry £10.00 rary housewife. Perhaps she was answer a single general knowl- the sort of jobs most women do,
£22.50 a fully trained brain surgeon or edge question my daughter ob- but there may be one or two -
nuclear physicist. served that she obviously wasn't somewhere.) Now politicians are
Usually £30.45 a brain surgeon, but just a house- urging employers to lure women
Price includes VAT, g4thyeaA wife after all! back to work, to tap 'an unused
conditioner & Mousse So there you are, fellow house- source of talent'. Who do they
Beauty Salon & Solarium wives, firmly at the bottom of the think they are kidding? The
heap. Now I can understand why number of school leavers is drop-
Hair & Beauty Salon, Lose Inches a child should see being a house- ping and they need a new supply
Woodshaw Village Slimming Treatment & wife as boring and mundane, of cheap labour. How long will it
Centre, Muscle Toning. because for a lot of us, for a lot of be before we are told that it is our
Book a course the time, it is. But where does the duty as citizens to stop being 'Just
Wootton Bassett - receive a free basic facial idea that housewives are totally housewives' and get back to
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'Massage 'Ear piercing & more come from? Television has a lot We can't win can we? So I've
Hair Salon Super Fast Tan Sunbed to answer for - it's hard to take only made one resolution for 1989.
Blunsdon House Please ring or call in and see anyone seriously when you know If anyone asks whether I work or
that they are worrying about the not I'm going to say with pride,
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Sweet solution to unwanted hair
WGRIKOUTS AIIE TUN With Christmas just out of the way, many readers will have had an
excess of sugar in cakes, mince pies, sweets and Christmas Pud - or
at least the temptation. However, how about using sugar to remove
Mondays, 7pm - 8pm at unwanted hair!
Upper Shaw Communty Sugaring is an an-
Centre, Ridge Green, cient art practiced
opposite Shaw Ridge through the centuries
by Arab women in
School - from 9th January North Africa but was
only recently intro-
Wednesdays, 7pm - 8pm at duced to Great Britain
Western Community Centre, by a Tunisian women
Somerset Road - from 11th named Zahra. Now
January West Swindon has its
own Sugaring Prac-
tioner in Susan
Ring Jackie on 46506 for more details. Nugent, from Mid-
dieleaze, who visits
clients in their own
s(AØarzir)Ø home orprovides ahair
removal service in lo-
the ratarzal. way cally based treatment
to rooms.
The sugaring technique involves the application of a honey like
ferriirme F?eaaty paste to areas of unwanted hairwhich is removed with a quick flick
If shaving your legs leaves the man in your life with grazed of the wrist.
hands, and waxing them leaves you writhing in agony just "The sugar paste is completely natural and removes hair at the
at the thought, then why not sugar them. roots together with dead skin cells," says Susan.
Sugaring is the ancent art of hair removal which has "The hair regrows softer, finer and more sparse and because its
been practised through the centuries. a natural product, sugaring is very suitable for people with certain
skin conditions or others with varicose veins. Farfrom any discom-
Prices: Face, Top Lip, Chin Cheeks, Neck £2 - £4;
Eyebrows £3;
Under Arms, Arms & Fingers £2 - £4 Bikini Line £3.50; fort involved, sugaring is very theraputic in the way the paste is
Full Legs £8, Half Legs £5.50 massaged onto the skin."
Susan Nugent would welcome calls from people who want un-
Keep your skin soft, shiny and healthy by contacting
local sugaring practioner Susan Nugent on 876484. wanted hair removed, or from a group of friends interested in
organising a 'sugaring party' in someone's house. She can be
Treatment given In local practise rooms or in your own home. contacted on 876484.
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