The picture above was taken in Longsight, one of our favourite areas of Manchester. Within easy reach of Hyde, where Mum lives, it's a bustling multi-racial area with quite a number of Muslim shops. We've bought our Christmas turkeys from shops there since 2005, the December we took Fithri with us. In fact, it turned out to be the only place we saw any Internet Cafes, but we found them too late on the trip to put them to active use. Still, we made a note for the future.
We didn't notice the full glory of the shop sign above until just before Christmas, when we were picking up some Christmas wrapping (cheap!) from a store across the road. I suggested to Noi that it might be a good thing to demand that all shops display similar lengthy statements of their underlying philosophies. Perhaps doing so might render the world of retailing just a little less bland? Anyone capable of seeing paradise in Longsight would get my custom.
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