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Shopping: Win a £100 Ocado shopping spree

Doing your supermarket shop online can change your life. However, you need to be sure that the service you're placing your trust in, fully lives up to your expectations. Since starting up in 2002, Ocado's revolutionary delivery service with its unique partnership with Waitrose, has been coming out top in customer satisfaction ratings, with its high standards, great value and top customer service + Win a £100 shopping spree!
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Shopping: High Street Kensington

If you would like an Oxford Street shopping experience but hate the Oxford Street crowds, then High Street Kensington will be the place for you.
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Get Groomed: Carter & Bond

Gone are the days when men would make do with just a bar of soap for all their toiletry needs. Today no self-respecting man should be without a few luxuries. Carter and Bond is the UK's leading online retailer of top quality male grooming gear, based right here in Notting Hill. The stylish yet simple website features a fantastic range of skin care, hair care and fragrances from the very best brands - all for delivery to your door within a couple of days.
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Shopping: Barkers Arcade

Barkers Arcade is far too upmarket to be called a shopping centre, far too selective to be called a shopping hang out and much too posh for me to be able to really buy anything in it - but God do I love it...
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Shop: MyKensington meets Colette Harkins from Kara Kara of South Kensington
Kara Kara in Pond Place specialise in handmade Japanese furniture, ceramics and glass, as well as selling a variety of exclusive teas. The owner is Nobuyoshi Hamanaka, a Japanese designer and calligrapher who has a number of other shops in Japan. Colette Harkins has managed the shop for just over two years.
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Feature: It's All Greek - Elinor Wynne Lloyd

Elinor Wynne Lloyd is the brains behind It's All Greek, where you can get varied and versatile interior accessories and perfect gift ideas; a combination of timeless elegance and contemporary style. We caught up with her for a few quick questions....
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Shopping: Kensington & Notting Hill Farmers' Markets - Tuesdays & Saturdays
Two rules make the farmers' market unique. Producers only - The stallholders must grow, raise or produce everything they sell. Regional producer - All the farms come from within a defined area (the circle drawn 100 miles from the M25).
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Shopping: Sotheby's Olympia

I've secretly wanted to go along to an auction for years but have never plucked up the courage. Mainly, I felt that I wouldn't fit in, not being super-rich or over 50. Plus there was something about the traditional sale-room itself that put me off; one look at the pin-stripe suited staff and the country house panelled walls made me feel out of my social depth ...
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