The Pakistani labourer who works for our contractor is very eager indeed to show me his friend’s warehouse of second-hand housewares, especially the lights. I must say, I’m sceptical, both that the lights will be any good and that the GF will approve, but I might go take a look. Not sure if there is something in it for the young man, but especially if there is, I feel obliged to go and see and hopefully buy something at least.
He is very much straight from the village. I forget sometimes that Lahore is a fairly cosmopolitan place as these things go. He is from Gujranwala which is the nearest town to Lahore, but is clearly very unexposed. I suspect he is one of the people who tried to go Europe and found themselves having to make a go of it in Turkey.