:02:19
Of course l've seen her films...
:02:21
and always thought
she was, well, fabulous.
:02:24
But, you know, a million, million miles
from the world l live in...
:02:26
which is here, Notting Hill,
my favourite bit of London.
:02:31
There's the market on weekdays selling
every fruit and vegetable known to man.
:02:35
Rock-hard bananas,
five for a pound !
:02:38
The tattoo parlour
with a guy outside who got drunk...
:02:41
and now can't remember
why he chose ""l love Ken.""
:02:44
The radical hairdressers...
:02:46
where everyone comes out
looking like the Cookie Monster,
:02:49
whether they want to or not.
:02:51
And then, suddenly,
it's the weekend,
:02:53
and from break of day hundreds
of stalls appear out of nowhere,
:02:55
filling Portobello Road,
right up to Notting Hill Gate.
:02:58
And wherever you look thousands of
people are buying millions of antiques,
:03:02
some genuine and some...
not quite so genuine.
:03:07
And what's great is that lots of friends
have ended up in this part of London.
:03:10
That's Tony, for example,
architect turned chef,
:03:14
who recently invested all the money
he ever earned in a new restaurant.
:03:17
And so, this is where
l spend my days and years...
:03:20
in this small village in the middle of
the city in a house with a blue door...
:03:24
that my wife and l bought together
before she left me for a man...
:03:27
who looked exactly like Harrison Ford.
:03:30
And where l lead a strange half-life
with a lodger called--
:03:33
Spike !
:03:40
You couldn't help me with an incredibly
important decision, could you ?
:03:43
lmportant compared to, let's say,
whether they cancel Third World debt ?
:03:46
That's right. l am at last going out
on a date with the great Janine,
:03:50
and l just wanna be sure
l've picked the right T-shirt.
:03:52
- What are the choices ?
- Well, wait for it.