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The post office is about life and lifting the lid on Schrödinger's demon tree

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Catching up with some more photos today, this time from a couple of leisurely wanders, through Sutton yesterday and to the nebulous land between Higher Hurdsfield, Kerridge and Rainow today. Getting to Sutton unfortunately requires going up sodding London Road (there are some rough spots in town but words cannot do justice to precisely how shit and depressing that particular part of town is, it's fucking grim ) but thankfully, once we get just past the canal bridges and the car wash, then we can take a detour through Lyme Green, a pleasantly picturesque village, where we are welcomed by the hoofin' great tree near the bus stop. Also of note, work has resumed on The Other Death House, not the Death House that turned up a while back (that has since found a buyer, fair play to whoever has taken that on, they've got their work cut out there!) It's been sitting there with naff all happening for at least a few years and at one point there was an old sideboard effort outside...
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More ghost signs and an attempted rocket

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Also: Farkas. I had to stick the laptop on to charge the DAP, because it said "Please charge, battery low" - a clear sign that it is indeed a Japanese mp3 player (well, that and the fact that the previous owner left their language learning materials on there; one day I left it on shuffle and got ambushed by a really energetic swing beat, a flurry of enthusiastic Japanese, then a load of business terminology in comparatively deadpan English. It was a bit surreal.) If it was a British one, it'd be something like "Oi cunt, battery's on its arse, get it charged." Anyway. While the laptop's on, it's time to catch up with some more photos, and today we have more ghost signs, from about halfway through June.  The first of the ghost signs, previously the Monocle Cafe. The sign just about legible underneath states Kenning Car Hire in a delicious mid-century font. Some quick scouting about didn't turn anything about this specific shop, but my search did br...
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Titus Xylophonicus, listenable things and the third parade of the year

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Things have been A Bit Much lately; getting pulled in a million directions at once, but we're not getting into that; I just want to sort through some recent photos and videos, and get back into the habit of aimlessly writing about whatever has been capturing my imagination.   Starting with the absolute joy that is playing the xylophone. I just kind of stumbled into this endeavour unintentionally and properly caught the bug - they're fun to play, super easy to learn, and the sound of them is just so endearing. I opted for an alto xylophone, with a satisfyingly weighty tone, less bright than a soprano but not quite as a deep as a bass (or a behs - does it still qualify as a behs if it's a xylophone?); the sound is absolutely gorgeous and it's really relaxing to clonk out some tunes on it. The only drawback is that it's a damnsight bigger than I expected it to be, and trying to find somewhere to keep the bugger is proving a challenge. I'll work something out. Ma...
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