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Can you bear it? Battling with the crowds, the crushing
indecision of present buying, the emptying wallet or purse, freezing
hands, heavy bags ...
Bah humbug ... of course we can.
The shops on Kensington High Street can provide
for your every need. Christmas present buying can be cleared up
in no time (all praise the arrival of Habitat too, somewhere to
put your feet up in a comfy chair when it all becomes too much).
see images of Christmas on Kensington
High Street
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A PUPPET party-fest returns to Sotheby's on Thursday,
November 29, 2020 when A-list celebs, politicians and farmyard animals
(?) unable to attend last year's Spitting Image sale line up to
go under the hammer at Sotheby's Olympia in London for Spitting
Image - The Last Laugh!
Spitting Image creator Roger Law is giving a free talk entitled
'Hung, Drawn and Caricatured' about his work with Spitting Image
on Sunday November 25th at 3pm in Sotheby's Olympia galleries.
For more information on this or other Expert Eye sessions (held
every Sunday), please call 020 7293 6333.
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Notting Hill Farmers' Market
Car park behind Notting Hill Gate Waterstones
Access from Kensington Place via Kensington Church Street
Saturdays, 9 am to 1 pm
Everything at the farmers' market
is grown or produced by the seller. No one is allowed to sell another
farmers' produce. When you buy a processed food, such as cheese,
sausage or apple juice, the farmer not only makes the product, but
also grows the apples, rears the goats for cheese and the pigs for
sausage.
All the farms at London Farmers'
Markets are within 100 miles of the M25. That means produce is fresher
than at the supermarket. It hasn't been sprayed with preservatives
or bruised in shipping. Because produce isn't wrapped in plastic,
you can touch and smell the fruit and veg.
Expect unusual varieties. Our farmers
grow 122 different English apple varieties. Another grows heirloom
tomatoes, another white courgettes and striped beetroot.
At the supermarket, greengrocer
and street market, all the vendor can tell you about the produce
is that it came from a wholesale market. At the farmers' market,
the farmer will tell you how it was grown, how it tastes and how
to cook it.
IN SEASON JULY, AUGUST and SEPTEMBER
This is peak season. In addition to the spring crops, look for slicing
tomatoes, broad beans, beetroots, courgette en fleur, parsnips,
sweet peppers, onions, runner beans, several flavours of basil,
parsley, cut flowers, yellow and purple French beans, round carrots,
cauliflower, swiss chard, aubergines, and kohlrabi. 'Everbearing'
strawberries are still in season, as well as red raspberries and
currants. In August, blackberries come in. If it's been a hot and
sunny summer, the earliest eating apples, Discovery come to market
as early as August. By September, most apples and pears are coming
in.
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Oxford Street without the crowds.
All the main high street shops including H&M, Marks & Spencer,
WH Smith, Benetton and Barkers Deparment store. There are also loads
of places to stop and have something to eat, from cafes to good
quality restaurants.
If you get really sick of shopping you are also a stone's throw
away from two of London's most beautiful parks, Holland Park and
Kensington Gardens.
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