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...Notting Hill is particular to its times — the middle and upper-middle classes drawn as much to the melting pot as their own well-to-do heritage. The Curtis generation has reached retirement age....
...Curtis Sittenfeld . . . Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral . . . Clip from Notting Hill I’m also just a girl standing in front of a boy asking to love her. Curtis Sittenfeld . . ....
...@csittenfeld Romantic comedies mentioned: – When Harry Met Sally – Say Anything – Notting Hill – Four Weddings and a Funeral – Dirty Dancing – Jerry Maguire – You’ve Got Mail – Ticket to Paradise...
...My party playlist includes “Got to Give It Up” by Marvin Gaye, “Move On Up” by Curtis Mayfield and “Night Fever” by the Bee Gees. An indulgence I would never forgo is getting a manicure....
...You know those terrible Richard Curtis films that made the English upper crust look witty, adorable and uncharacteristically photogenic?...
...Glyn Cywarch means the Valley of Hemp in Welsh: the area produced rope for the ships that came into Porthmadog, once a major trading port....
...The interiors were all conceived alongside Maria Speake of the north-west London design studio and salvage business Retrouvius, which she co-founded with her husband, Adam Hills, in 1993....
...A wall of fire crept back over the hill. Our building literally burst and we lost about 40 per cent of the vines we’d planted.”...
...From there, the company just kept making hits: Bridget Jones’s Diary, Billy Elliot, Fargo, Notting Hill, Senna, Shaun of the Dead. The list goes on, but we all have busy lives....
...Light flows through 2m-tall paned windows that frame village vignettes and views of the hills above the sea. casamediterraneohotel.com, from €140 On Milos, the tastemakers’ preferred escape And here’s...
...Richard Curtis had yet to transform the ’hood into the star of its own Hollywood movie....
...When I want to feel Notting Hill, it’s Preen. And of course, the queen herself, Vivienne Westwood. I am so grateful I got to work on her last campaign....
...The lighting is made of organically grown mushroom material combined with hemp. The furnishings and the fixtures are minimalistic and evocative of the natural food and wines....
...Mon–Fri; 8am–4pm Sat–Sun) is a great place for either a meal (the oblong veggie burger or grilled barramundi fillet are recommended) or a cake and coffee (I’d go for the arty flourless orange cake over the hemp...
...“I found a John Makepeace chair recently,” says Hills....
...Masterpiece London’s July art fair confirmed their popularity, with a large and opulent wooden example from writer Maria Curti Comerio’s 19th-century holiday mansion in Laino, Italy, complete with seven...
...It is turning an old industrial riverside site in East Sussex into The Phoenix, with 700 renewably powered timber and hemp homes that will store carbon....
...“I was listening to my mom’s Motown, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Natalie Cole and Aretha Franklin LPs. To me, those artists were some of the very first rappers....
...marijuana, which seemingly pervades every street corner, grocery store, apartment building and public park in New York but is barely detectable across vast swaths of London (Camden Market and the Notting Hill...
...Set inside what was once Lavender Hill School, a mixed elementary built in 1891 by T J Bailey, the palatial 2,000sq ft interior in south London is a paean to lateral living....
...While the plaster finishes, linen textiles and hemp carpets do translate, Bowden tends to offset them with harder finishes such as marble and steel....
...And I’m also obsessed with vanilla hemp milk.”...
...John Hill, who runs the town’s butcher, agreed. “MPs are MPs, it’s a job for the boys isn’t it?” he said....
...It is made from prefabricated panels of hemp — a fast-growing, insulating fibre that sequesters more carbon than conventional forestry, say the architects — cultivated on the surrounding farm....
...So it is too in his new series, six chapters zigzagging through time and place: 1990s Moscow, 1950s Notting Hill, Saudi golf courses, hushed server farms....
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