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INSPIRE 64 SAVING TIGERS How an experimental programme in eastern Russia strives to protect these majestic endangered animals COVER ILLUSTRATION © HELENA PÉREZ GARCÍA BEST OF BRITISH: BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE Spend Valentine’s Day in one of these enchanting spa retreats 82 TR AVEL & ADVENTURE GREAT LAKES Anna Walker discovers the charms and peculiarities of America’s Great Lake region 90 DISCOVERING WARSAW Delve into the diverse beauty and rich cultural history of Poland’s capital FEBRUARY 2019 • DIGESTED N E W M O N T H LY P O D CA S T Each month Reader’s Digest will navigate the woes and wonders of modern life, weighing in with leading experts on the everyday tools we need to survive and thrive in 2019 To subscribe to Digested for monthly episodes—starting with January’s “How to Give Up Plastic”—visit readersdigest.co.uk/podcast or search “Digested” on iTunes SUBSCRIBE TODAY FREE Contents FEBRUARY 2019 In every issue 12 Over to You See the World Differently 46 50 HEALTH Advice: Susannah Hickling Column: Dr Max Pemberton 96 INSPIRE If I Ruled the World: Skin p 96 98 TRAVEL & ADVENTURE My Great Escape Island Getaways 114 100 MONEY Column: Andy Webb 80 FOOD & DRINK Tasty recipes and ideas from Rachel Walker 106 HOME & GARDEN Column: Cassie Pryce 110 80 116 FASHION & BEAUTY Column: Lisa Lennkh on how to look your best Beauty 118 ENTERTAINMENT February’s cultural highlights 122 127 BOOKS February Fiction: James Walton’s recommended reads Books That Changed My Life: Jacqueline Wilson 128 TECHNOLOGY Column: Olly Mann 130 133 135 139 140 143 FUN & GAMES You Couldn’t Make It Up Word Power Brain Teasers 60-Second Stand-Up Laugh! 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‘a searing central performance’ (**** Guardian) in Shakespeare’s comic tragedy, which asks us to question our values and consider where happiness really lies n MORE INFORMATION Timon of Athens plays in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon until 22 February For more information and a full performance schedule please visit rsc.org.uk In This Issue… EDITORS’ LETTERS Last October I embarked on an American road trip of epic proportions, passing through four US states in just one week Though the weather was temperamental (in days the 25°C sunshine of Detroit became snow in Wisconsin) the trip offered an insight into the contrasts of life in the Great Lakes You can read about the journey on p82 The contrast had me thinking about climate change, and the dramatic impact human actions are having on our planet Earlier this year I spoke to Will McCallum, head of oceans at Greenpeace, about the way excessive plastic consumption is harming mother nature You can hear our conversation on the first 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Answers on next page BY RO B LUTE S balkanise v.—A: divide into factions B: coat with rubber C: prevent from entering and opportunity C: dance to celebrate life lyceum n.—A: trellised pathway Byzantine adj.—A: artificial B complicated C: dangerous B: hall for public lectures C: an ornate display sybarite n.—seeker of… 10 solecism n.—A: minor blunder A: knowledge B: power C: pleasure in speech B: expression of disgust C: statement of worth lilliputian adj.—A: highly fragrant B: very small C: wondrous madras n.—A: colourful lightcotton fabric B: hearty lentil soup C: large, noisy crowd 11 jodhpurs n.—A: leather boots B: riding breeches C: protective gloves 12 magenta n.—A: light pink B: purplish red C: dark blue Dixieland n.—style of… A: country music B: country gospel C: jazz 13 Boeotian adj.—A: heavy B: witty tabby n.—A: type of silk taffeta 14 fescennine adj.— A: silent B: variety of wine grape C: type of wallcovering B: loud C: obscene C: dull or obtuse 15 canopic jar n.—a jar for… El Dorado n.—A: symbol of peace B: place of great wealth A: preserving food B: embalmed entrails C: keeping medicine FEBRUARY 2019 • 133 WORD POWER Answers balkanise—[A] divide into factions lyceum—[B] hall for public lectures (Aristotle taught in Lyceum, a gymnasium near Athens) The professor feared the lyceum’s scale (the Balkan Peninsula was split into small warring nations) Byzantine—[B] complicated (Byzantium bureaucracy was complex) Jo was confused by the Byzantine map sybarite—[C] seeker of pleasure (the ancient Greek city Sybaris was known for wealth and luxury) A sybarite, Tom favoured costly, rare Italian reds 10 solecism—[A] minor blunder in speech (after the language spoken in Soloi, ancient Cilicia) 11 jodhpurs—[B] riding breeches (they were designed in Jodhpur, India) Lillie wore her old jodhpurs for the race 12 magenta—[B] purplish red (the colour’s dye was discovered the year of the Battle of Magenta, Italy, 1859) At sunset, the sky turned magenta lilliputian—[B] very small (in Gulliver’s Travels, the inhabitants of Lilliput were tiny) madras—[A] colourful light-cotton fabric (the style originated in Madras, India) Elsie couldn’t resist the pricey orange-and-yellow madras top 13 Boeotian—[C] dull or obtuse (Greek Boeotians were labelled bores by Athenians) Mae struggled to explain rap to her Boeotian cousin Dixieland—[C] style of jazz (a 14 fescennine—[C] obscene (the ancient Italian town Fescennia was noted for their use of offensive verse) WORD OF THE DAY* 15 canopic jar—[B] RAGABASH: jar for storing An idle fellow embalmed entrails (it was mistakenly Alternative suggestions: associated with “Attending a costume Canopus, Egypt) King party in old clothes” Tut’s tomb holds four canopic jars “An embarrassed piece nickname for the US south, where the style originated) tabby—[A] type of silk taffeta (the fabric was first made in Al‘Attabiya, Baghdad) Carol wore an elegant tabby scarf El Dorado—[B] place of great wealth and opportunity (the city was said to hold fabulous riches) Eli labelled Silicon Valley his El Dorado 134 of cloth” “When you hit someone over the head with fabric” VOCABULARY RATINGS & below: Wordmonger 10–12: Wordsmith 13–15: Etymologist *POST YOUR DEFINITIONS EVERY DAY AT FACEBOOK.COM/READERSDIGESTUK FUN & GAMES Brainteasers Challenge yourself by solving these puzzles, then check your answers on p138 THIS IS NOT A MAZE This puzzle has six white sliding doors that can each be pushed into one of the two corridors they are straddling, blocking people from walking through How can you close four of them so it’s impossible to get from the entry to the exit? There are eight semiprecious gems in Sven’s collection At current market prices, four are worth £5, three are worth £10 and one is worth £25 He gives them to his three children: Annika, Birgitta and Carl n The total value of each child’s gift is the same n Carl receives exactly three stones n Annika receives the lowest number of stones How are the gems distributed? FEBRUARY 2019 • 135 (THIS I S NOT A MAZ E) DARREN RIGBY; (GEM STONES) M ARC EL DANES I GEMSTONES SIX FIGURES MAKE IT WORK Fill in each cell of this grid with a whole number from through so that each row, column and outlined region contains six different numbers We’ve placed a few numbers to get you started Arrange the whole numbers from to in the three-by-three grid so that all of the following conditions are satisfied: n is positioned between and n n There’s a row, column or long diagonal for which the sum and the product are equal On the left are the names of five boats that belong to the same company Which one of the names on the right would fit in with the rest? 136 • FEBRUARY 2019 n There’s a number in the left column that is three times the number in the lower right corner n The sum of one of the long diagonals is odd n does not share a row, column or long diagonal with UNDER THE SAME FLAG FENIX GALVI 56 YARCA 100 SIIKU BOCDU 400 is between and DIVOY 20 SEVON PIJRA NAXIR 11 GIVET 13 (SI X FI GURES) F RASER SIM PSON; (UNDER TH E SAM E F LAG) DARREN RI GBY; (MAKE IT WORK) ROD E RICK KIMBAL L BRAINTEASERS READER’S DIGEST Test your general knowledge Answers on p142 CROSSWISE ACROSS DOWN 10 11 12 13 15 17 19 21 22 24 27 28 14 16 18 20 23 25 26 Rapid nuclear reactor shut-down (5) Helper (9) Dressing (10) Atop (4) Ministers (9) Bender (5) Sets of equipment (4) Female big cat (10) Herefordshire town (10) Type of heating fuel (4) Reprimand (5) Contented (9) Waist band (4) Volume for preliminary artistic studies (10) 29 Steam locomotive (4,5) 30 One of these means almost cloudless (5) Truce (5-4) Isolated (5) Snow vehicle (7) Notion (4) Fabricated (7-2) Hangman’s knot (5) Emphasise (9) Wig (9) Ignorant person (9) Whipping boy (9) Makes journeys (7) Gaiety (5) Legend (5) Capital of Norway (4) FEBRUARY 2019 • 137 Brainteasers: Answers THIS IS NOT A MAZE £50 PRIZE QUESTION Answer published in the March issue Can you rearrange these letters to form a single word? A NSW E R P E P GEMSTONES SIX FIGURES 6 6 2 6 UNDER THE SAME FLAG Each of the names on the left contains a Roman numeral and a number that matches its value, so NAXIR 11 fits in with the others MAKE IT WORK 138 • FEBRUARY 2019 Annika: one stone worth £25 Birgitta: one stone worth £10 and three worth £5 Carl: two stones worth £10 and one worth £5 THE FIRST CORRECT ANSWER WE PICK WINS £50!* Email excerpts@ readersdigest.co.uk ANSWER TO JANUARY’S PRIZE QUESTION EVASION All the others form another word when the first letter is removed: e/motion, v/indiction, r/evolution, t/reason AND THE £50 GOES TO… Douglas McKinlay, Great Cumbrae 60 Stand-Up FUN & GAMES -Second We chatted to the fabulously energetic stand-up comic, Sindhu Vee WHAT’S THE BEST PART OF YOUR CURRENT SHOW? When I know I’m going to talk about things that are a little bit darker It’s always a moment of uncertainty and magic because I don’t know how the audience is going to take it It’s very valuable talking about things that are serious yet funny—how are you ever going to get over dark things if you don’t laugh? There are very few topics that play in light and dark the way love does, and the show is ultimately about love WHO INSPIRES YOUR COMEDY? My everyday life; I’m not a political comic Both the family I grew up with and the family I’m bringing up inspire me We are all products of our relationships, so there’s that WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE OF YOUR OWN JOKES? When I was growing up in India there was no sex education, so when it comes to sex there’s no theory, you just show up for a practical and wing it We’re innately so talented at this that there’s a billion of us DO YOU FIND ANY PARTS OF THE COUNTRY TO BE FUNNIER THAN OTHERS? Audiences in Scotland, especially Glasgow, are very entertaining Someone was talking during my set when a man from the back told him to shut up I assured them I didn’t care about the heckle, but they started having a fight It was so crazy and I loved it As an Indian, I have a huge appetite for chaos WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE ONE LINER? After 20 years of marriage, my husband and I know each other extremely well In fact, I know him so well I can have a full blown argument with him from start to finish when he’s not even home WHICH SUPER POWER WOULD YOU HAVE? To always be content with whatever I was doing at the time Get tickets for Sindhu Vee’s comedy tour, Sandhog, at sindhuvee.com Tour dates are February until April 3, 2019, tickets on sale now FOR MORE, GO TO READERSDIGEST.CO.UK/INSPIRE/HUMOUR FEBRUARY 2019 • 139 FUN & GAMES Laugh! Win £30 for every reader’s joke we publish! Go to readersdigest co.uk/contact-us or facebook.com/readersdigestuk THEY SAY THAT WHEN YOU FALL in love, you lose an average of two friends So if I ever finally fall in love, I’ll be the first person with negative friends COMEDIAN JAMES KING She stole all my favourite Kevin Bacon films and she stole all my small French cakes On the plus side though I’m now footloose and fancy free COMEDIAN ALF WHEN I GOT MARRIED THERE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE CLAIM THAT IT’S never a question of me taking my wife’s name since it was literally unpronounceable Scott “Bolander” is already bad enough, I didn’t want to be Scott “Unpronounceable.” a lack of vocabulary that makes people swear Rubbish I know thousands of words, but I still prefer “f**k” COMEDIAN SCOT BOLANDER I BROKE UP WITH MY WIFE because she was stealing from me Pucker Up! It’s not just humans who express love with a smooch These cute critters are celebrating the day of love too (via boredpanda.com) 140 • FEBRUARY 2019 COMEDIAN BILL CONNOLLY YOU LEARN A LOT ABOUT HUMANS when you have a baby Girls are so much more advanced than boys I seriously think that girls are born in READER’S DIGEST conversation It’s like they come out of the womb, talking: “Are you my mother? Lovely to finally put a name to a face.” COMEDIAN MICHAEL MCINTYRE THE ONLY HONEST ANSWER YOU can give when someone asks you if you love them is “at the moment, yes”, but try saying that without getting a kick in the chaps COMEDIAN JON RICHARDSON I GET CLAUSTROPHOBIC EASILY and I don’t get why aeroplane toilets don’t have windows I mean it’s not as if anyone can see in Unless of course you are the most determined pervert in the world COMEDIAN BILLY CONNOLLY And that’s exactly why I go and watch the football.” COMEDIAN ROMESH RANGANATHAN THE THING RESTAURANTS ALWAYS boast about now is homemade cooking I don’t want homemade cooking, that’s why I’m here! Because I don’t like the stuff at home!” COMEDIAN LEE EVANS IF ADAM AND EVE CAN’T MAKE IT work in paradise, then how am I going to make it work in Lewisham? COMEDIAN SARA PASCOE PICASSO SHOULD HAVE BEEN A taxidermist “I’ve done your dog It’s got nine eyes down the side, I made his head all square, 15 legs.” COMEDIAN EDDIE IZZARD FOR THE PRICE OF A SINGLE ticket to go and watch a football match, I could take my whole family to a farm park We could go on the donkeys We could get lunch and tea I could go on a tractor All for the price of a single ticket I GOT MUGGED IN LIMERICK The place, not style He didn’t sing, “Hello my name is Pete, I’m standing in the street, don’t be rash, give me your cash or I’ll kick you in the teeth.’” COMEDIAN LEE MACK FEBRUARY 2019 • 141 LAUGH Lonely In Love This Valentine’s Day, these brave tweeters share the reason they’re still single: @AnnieKroth: “I bite into both Kit Kat bars at the same time to avoid leaving a lonely one at the end.” @Derpin_Irwin: “When I had a boyfriend, my Dad pretended to rob us to see if he’d protect me.” RYANAIR HAVE BEEN GETTING A HARD time because they’ve launched a £7 flight to New York Although as always with RyanAir, it does land slightly outside of New York… In Dublin.” COMEDIAN FRANKIE BOYLE I SAW A CLOWN DOING SIT UPS THE other morning Funny how things work out MARI DRURY, F l i n t s h i r e I’VE DECIDED THAT I’M NO LONGER going to date people that I work with It’s not that I don’t believe in office romance, I’m just really tired of dating people with awful jobs COMEDIAN JEREMY RANDALL JOHNSTON @RingsBySpringlu: “One time I told a girl that I thought she was beautiful and after she said thank you I said, ‘Yeah, I’ve been watching you a lot.’” @PaigeSorenson: “I point blank refuse to give up my side of the bed Which is both sides Because I sleep like a starfish.” @LiseFranz: “My step dad tells every guy that I bring home, ‘Whatever you to my daughter, I’ll to you.’” I REALLY WANT TO GET A PHD IN HISTORY so that if there’s ever an accident and someone yells, “is anybody here a doctor?” I can raise my hand, walk over and say, “I’m not going to let you die… ignorant about the Cuban Missile Crisis.” COMEDIAN SAMANTHA RUDDY I RECENTLY HAD TO QUIT DRINKING ALCOHOL I felt like getting drunk all the time was just making me into sombody I wasn’t Drinking makes you outgoing and funny and likeable, and that’s just not me SEEN ON REDDIT CROSSWORD ANSWERS Across: Scram, Assistant, 10 Mayonnaise, 11 Upon, 12 Reverends, 13 Spree, 15 Kits, 17 Leopardess, 19 Leominster, 21 Peat, 22 Scold, 24 Satisfied, 27 Belt, 28 Sketchbook, 29 Iron horse, 30 Tenth Down: Cease-fire, Alone, Skiddoo, Idea, Trumped-up, Noose, Underline, 14 Hairpiece, 16 Simpleton, 18 Scapegoat, 20 Travels, 23 Cheer, 25 Fable, 26 Oslo 142 • FEBRUARY 2019 READER’S DIGEST BEAT THE CARTOONIST! In the March Issue Interview: Neil Morrissey Think of a witty caption for this cartoon—the three best suggestions, along with the cartoonist’s original, will be posted on our website in mid-February If your entry gets the most votes, you’ll win £50 The actor opens up about his life, work and The Good Karma Hospital Submit to captions@readersdigest.co.uk or online at readersdigest.co.uk/fun-games by February We’ll announce the winner in our April issue December’s Winner I Remember: Suzi Quatro CARTOONST: BILL HOUSTON The queen of bass looks back on her fascinating life in music Our cartoonist was left trailing in last place with his somewhat sinister Santa caption: “…and who you think they’re gonna believe? 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