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Previous Articles for May, 2009

» Interiors: Velvet Love

The ‘complete’ Velvet experience, now available in Hove

Recession-busting Velvet has recently opened another floor in their Church Road store in Hove. With all this extra space they have created room for clothing, shoes, gifts and accessories to be showcased directly alongside the furniture. This beautifully-presented welcoming environment, with a department store boutique design, offers everything from birthday cards, jewellery and dresses to armoires and chandeliers. Velvet has created a superstore of affordable luxury, this is the store with everything.
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» Floors outdoors

Latest Interiors take a look at the best coverings for your garden floor, whatever the weather

Summer is on its way, and as the weather warms up, we head outside. Flooring can make or break an area, even out of doors. This week, we show you how clever design and a little landscaping can transform even the smallest outdoors plot into a splendid living space, read on.
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» Mamma Malone

Malone goes back to her home town and finds it a spooky hollow experience

I’ve just got back from London visiting my mother in Shepherds Bush. It was nice to go ‘home’. It felt good to be back where I grew up, that familiar place I know so well and hated, by the time I left. I walked down the road where I used to catch the bus to school every day, and I can’t believe my parents let me on my own! Not sure I’d let my daughter! No wonder my dad always wanted to drive me everywhere. Both the petrol stations have been shut down, boarded up long before the credit crunch, they don’t need petrol in Goldhawk Road, they need shops selling international phone cards and crack. 
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» Distracted Dad

Richard Hearn is dealing with his wife’s pregnancy food cravings, it’s all about fruit

I have become an expert on ‘fruit-inspired‘ food. By that I mean various sugary foods where fruit was somehow involved towards the beginning of the manufacture. Much like sand is used in glass, and recycled plastic bottles end up as a comfortable fleece (apparently, according to one of The Boy‘s factual books Rubbish and Recycling.)
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» Kay Town

Andrew Kay ponders the silly world of celebrity chefs

From time to time the phone rings and it’s BBC Southern Counties Radio’s breakfast show Sussex Breakfast with Neil Pringle. I like Neil and I like his show too. Usually the call is to ask if I will talk about a food news story. More often than not at the crack of dawn.
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» The Landlady

The landlady finds taking her kids away easy, compared to being at home

I have just returned from a five day holiday to Tunisia, which I took with The Big Daughter and The Small Daughter. The Big Son claimed that he would rather gauge his own eyes out with hot needles than go with us, which served the dual purpose of saving me a bob or two and spared us all the vileness of his perpetual farting for a few days.
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