Beard Liberation Front
press release 21st June
Contact keith flett 07803 167266
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A SUMMER SOLSTICE BEARD WILL FLOURISH SAY CAMPAIGNERS
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that a beard started on Midsummer’s Day, Friday June 21st will flourish according to folk tradition
The campaigners say that based on Shakespeare’s play a Midsummer Night’s Dream a beard started on the summer solstice can have magic properties that will allow it to grow unimpeded.
In the play Bottom urges ‘good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your pumps..’
The line refers to the need to find fastenings for the false beards the actors, notably Bottom himself, are to wear for the play they are presenting.
However the campaigners say that while organic knitted beards to celebrate the longest day are fine in reality growing a real beard, where appropriate, is an excellent way to mark midsummer.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said Midsummer’s Day is one of the best times of year to start growing a beard coming as it does just before the start of national Beard Week on Monday 24th June.
National Beard Week 2019
Monday 24th June: Hirsute Personality of the Year: the beard wearer who has made the positive public impact during the year. 2018 winner- Jeremy Corbyn
Tuesday 25th June: Beard Friendly Sandwich of the Year: the sandwich that goes in the mouth not the beard. 2018: cheese & marmite
Wednesday 26th June: Hirsute Broadcaster of the Year: the broadcaster whose beard has had the most public impact. 2018 Michael Rosen & James O’Brien
Thursday 27th June: Pogonophobe of the Year: the most notorious beard hater of the year; 2018 Donald Trump
Friday 28th June: Beard Friendly Employer of the Year: the field grows wider each year 2018 Wildes Cheese
Saturday 29th June: Beard of Summer 2019: the third of the four quarterly seasonal Awards 2018 Philip Ardagh
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