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Showing posts with label 'Notting Hill'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 'Notting Hill'. Show all posts
Friday, 18 October 2019

Found lost cat was not lost.

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Cats are never lost, they know exactly where they are. It is their 'owners' who are lost having formed an un-natural dependency upon...
Sunday, 22 September 2019

Unoccupied Social housing in Notting Hill/Ladbroke Grove.

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This part of West London has a serious housing problem. There is not, according to RBKC housing department, enough social housing to meet th...
Tuesday, 4 July 2017

My 'post Grenfell' Utopian dream.

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One result of the Grenfell disaster must be a complete change in attitude to social housing and the people living within it. Grenfell has op...
Monday, 26 June 2017

Scientology and Tragedy and other Grenfell Tower stories.

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There was an extraordinary event yesterday under the Westway. I'll write about it later. What I want to write about now is this: As ...
Thursday, 11 September 2014

Previously unseen Rothko found in West London.

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Arts Correspondent Jan Nieupjur writes: Walk through Notting Hills streets these days and the chances are yo...
Wednesday, 2 April 2014

When a pelican becomes a lemon.

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The Pelican pub on All Saints Road has always been a bit of a lemon. Tucked away behind Portobello Road it managed to avoid attracting too ...
Monday, 29 April 2013

Bess Cavendish at Mau Mau, Portobello Road.

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Bess was captivating! You do not capture a butterfly in a net or a glass jar but in gentle hands that understand every nuance of th...
Sunday, 5 February 2012

Blue door. Portobello Road. Notting Hill. Bollocks!

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In reality the 'blue door' in the film 'Notting Hill' no longer exists; it wasn't on Portobello road but on Westbourne P...
Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Maison du Chien returns to the bumpkin, Westbourne Park road.

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From the 28th of september Maison du Chien begins a residency on the top floor of Bumpkin. Expect the unusual as usual. I'll post more ...
Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Notting Hill Carnival 2011 post mortem.

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FRIDAY. There is a god or at least there is a god of Carnival. A secular god though; keen on a bit of spliff, a drink or two and steel pan...
Thursday, 4 August 2011

The portobello Travel Bookshop is closed.

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The film 'Notting Hill' made it famous, made it a tourist hot spot, filled it with camera happy sightseers with no interest in the ...