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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
London SW3, Chelsea,
Promenades &Streetscapes
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Bricks and more bricks: what is so extraordinary in this wall is not only the variety of different coloured-bricks, varying from pale yellow to dark grey/black, but also the various laying-out method and the mixture of industrial-made bricks with hand-made bricks. Often a building's side elevation is more telling of the construction history, affected by demolition of the adjacent house, or maybe restoration or even bomb destruction, during WWII. All these required part reconstruction with new or reclaimed materials, not entirely but limited to a minimum, for lack of money: a kind of make-do compromise. Mind you, the street main elevation is always treated with greatest attention to the unifying look of the brick colour and texture.
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.
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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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.
A Victorian pub, now closed. (Photo of it when open.)
Address: 25 Tryon Street (formerly Keppel Street).
Owner: Stonegate Pub Company (former); TCG Acquisitions (former); Tattershall Castle Group (former); Punch Taverns [Spirit Group] (former); Courage (former).
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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.