Anyway, after spending some time perusing the products of that nice Mr Oliver, who has his own range at Woolworths, I walked back through the shops to get my bus. Dickson shops is a nice shopping precinct with some interesting clothes and food shops and there was even a man with a banjo singing "And the band played Waltzing Matilda" so it was a suitably Aussie experience.
And then I caught sight of this sign in a shop.
No. I have no idea what it means either. but there seems to be the possibility of an easier trip home than the 32 hour marathon I have to undertake next weekend.
Unfortunately I had no time to go "downstairs" or "to Manchester" as it will now be known, as my bus was due, but I will be back!
Manchester goods = cottons, linens, etc. from the dark satanic mills of Manchester. I've never heard the term used outside of shops. I suppose it's a 19th-century usage stubbornly surviving globalisation.
ReplyDeleteAh, well that makes some sort of sense I suppose although I doubt that anything down there was actually made in Manchester! An odd hangover from an earlier time...
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