Inspired by his South American guinea pig chum, Mr Gnome is trying hard to give a fair-trade focus to some of his Christmas shopping.Fortunately for him, that's not too difficult. He has made several festive forays into Birmigham's splendid Shared Earth shop on New Street.
It's a glittering Aladdin's cave of splendid items, decorative and useful.
Mr G was particularly taken with some small-scale (there's a surprise) nativity sets from Peru. He bought two.
Tiny problem. He likes them so much that he's reluctant to give them away.So much for altruism. Tsk!
