David Gray's pictures of the week 27-11-2006

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This week's picture subject is beards. When I was a little boy and my mum took me out in the car with another child, she used to play a game with us that was based on beards. It was very simple. Looking out of the car windows, the first child to spot a bearded man would have to shout out "Beaver !". My mother would check to verify the sighting and the successful spotter got a sweet. A false claim meant the other child got the sweet. It wouldn't work nowadays, of course, and not least because of the Beaver aspect of it. Anyway, there are a lot more beards out there nowadays and you'd quickly run out of sweets. Sikhs have been in the news recently because many younger male Sikhs are shaving off their traditionally long beards in order to fit in more easily to Western society. That's a shame. Beavers of the world, fight back against the tyranny of Western conformism !

Morris dancing beard on Brighton seafront in May 2003 (image 2338-12)

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