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Pure ground

Pure boutique coffee bar brought cafe society to Glenelg, and is now one of the seaside suburb’s best loved eating and drinking establishments. It brings a much needed coolness and hipster attention to detail, from the coffee making to cocktail mixing, craft brews, and sourcing of ingredients for the contemporary menu. You can chose its urban dark interior for an intimate chat, the

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Bricks and blooms: London gardens in spring

In the week of the Chelsea Flower Show here’s a look at the humble suburban front garden. There’s something of the irresistible force of nature in a London spring. Whereas in winter it’s all brick and bluster, spring’s fecundity of growth and blooms seem to overrun the dreary, built-up up infinity, and the buildings rather

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