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London SW3, King's Road, Chelsea promenades
Window shopping
retail
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The scandal of Marks and Spencer's pricing system:
1. The weight of food, to make it look cheaper, is packaged in the old half-pound system, equivalent to 225 grams
2. The equivalent price per kilo unit is marked in small characters which are barely legible
3. Instead of calling the fruit £ 9/kilo, they chose instead less than a quarter kilo that is 225 grams instead of 250 grams per packet to make it look cheaper 1.99 pounds per packet, equivalent to 8.84 pounds per kilo, call it 9 pounds per kilo.
Who wants to pay 9 pounds for a kilo of tasteless strawberries, artificially ripened after harvesting?
But why be so confusing and underhand?
This should be a matter for the Ombudsmen, to keep the culprits in line.
London SW3, King's Road, Chelsea promenades
Window shopping
retail
Picasso Bar in King's Road "reincarnation"... new facelift and new identity...
The previous Picasso, a small Italian coffee shop boasted the same decor as when it opened 50 years ago. It served everyone from rock stars Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones in the Sixties to recent regulars Bob Geldof and Gordon Ramsay. TV chef Ramsay, who often visited with his children, raved about its lattes and fried egg on toast, while Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole was a regular visitor with his new wife Carly Zucker.
But the café closed in 2009 after serving a final breakfast crowd. Owner Alberto Barbieri said dwindling passing trade on top of a recent rent rise, competition from nearby coffee chains and the congestion charge had killed his business, which has been in the family for half a century.
Set back from king's Road on a redevelopped site belonging formerly to York Barracks this deli shop is more expensive than Harrods.
But it stays open til 10PM and has a captive clientele locally.
Kings Road, London SW3. - 2024
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Taken at the Sheperdswell, East Kent Railway Museum. It is right next to Sheperdswell Train Station, didnt even know it existed until today was a chance visit, also great for bird photography.
Not a family outing to be honest but if you want some peace and a nice cuppa pay them a visit.
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Chelsea Physic Garden
London SW3
July 2010
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he loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) is a fruit tree in the family Rosaceae, indigenous to southeastern China.
Loquats are unusual among fruit trees in that the flowers appear in the autumn or early winter, and the fruits are ripe in late winter or early spring. The flowers are 2 cm diameter, white, with five petals, and produced in stiff panicles of three to ten flowers. The flowers have a sweet, heady aroma that can be smelled from a distance.
Loquat syrup is used in Chinese medicine for soothing the throat like a cough drop. The leaves, combined with other ingredients and known as pipa gao (枇杷膏; pinyin: pípágāo; literally "loquat paste"), it acts as a demulcent and an expectorant, as well as to soothe the digestive and respiratory systems. Loquats can also be used to make light wine.
Like most related plants, the seeds (pips) and young leaves of the plant are slightly poisonous, containing small amounts of cyanogenic glycosides (including amygdalin) which release cyanide when digested, though the low concentration and bitter flavour normally prevents enough being eaten to cause harm.
Arriva London, Wright Wright Eclipse Gemini 3 bodied Volvo B5LH, LK16 BYC (SW3) working service 340 in Harrow. Thu 23.05.2019.
The Sutton Estate, Chelesa. A neaby plaque reads - These dwellings were erected under the charitable trusts of the will of William Richard Sutton of Golden Lane E.C. carrier who died 20th May 1900.
Part of the Walking the District Line set.
London SW3
Chelsea, Tedworth Square
Portaloo is an brand name for a portable loo.
"Loo" is the short for lavatory - the polite term for "Toilet", or WC. This is of course a chemical lavatory.hired for the duration of the works of refurbishing the interior of a building usually gutting it even redesigning the plan inside and reinstalling services before redecorating it. In the process the innards of the building are thrashed as the house is stripped to the bone..
A portaloo is installed for the building cites workers refurbishing a house.
The skip next to it is covered with a tarpaulin: this is to prevent:
1. people scavanging for old bits and bobs and leaving a mess around it
2. other people coming to fill in the skip with their own junk and so save themselves the cost of a skip or the cost of having the Council collect the garbage and taking it to the tip...