Guy Fawkes Day, although we forget about it until evening when we can hear the sound of fireworks - but are not really tempted to go out and follow the sound to the source.
In the daytime we make a foray up Green Lanes Road. It's Turkish territory, with plenty of little restaurants, some the subject of excellent reviews. And there are numerous Turkish food shops as well as a few travel agencies and social service facilities with a Turkish clientele. We're here for Sama, a warehouse like wholesale/retail place that's a wonderful trove of Turkish and Middle Eastern foods. It's pretty unprepossessing from the outside but inside the shelves stretch back laden with dried figs and apricots, sundried tomatoes, bottles of oil, dried peppers, dates, two foot long honeycombs in wooden frames, J's favourite dried red pepper flakes, and a whole aisle full of olives. So we're well supplied with snack food for the duration.
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