Giglamps rambles

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...

It's that time again, finally facing down the terrible demon of legend that is Rose Fossil's dreaded "Sort and back up later" folder. There are a great many things that comprise the body of this haunting gestalt entity; some of the less threatening things are files with recognisable names, that can easily be classified and sent in peace to their intended destination... others are more vague and ominous, though. Strings of letters and numbers; dates; zip folders of fonts I couldn't be arsed to install; fucking WEBP images!!! ; file formats that Windows 11 will randomly decide it doesn't want to work with anymore (RIP.rtf) - the horrors! However, it's in among one of these vaguely named files, that I found treasure... And that treasure is a mid-'90s TV film adaptation of Roald Dahl's tongue-in-cheek version of Little Red Riding Hood, from Revolting Rhymes (a classic, I loved that book when I was a kid.) This film passed me by, though; I didn't se...

There's a mixture of old and new here, some Cats left over from last year, which turned up on an external hard drive, and some new discoveries. Apologies in advance if there are any repeats here; I do my best to avoid that but beyond a certain point, when you see so many odd cat ornaments, then it can get a bit difficult to remember what's been featured and what hasn't. These two are just so done with everything, I rather dig their vibe. This one would probably be genuinely charming if it were in better shape but the rough patches where the paint has worn away give it a bit of an atmosphere, like a haunted object... This one is pretty cool, but it's still bloody bizarre, therefore it fits the bill for these posts. Likewise, this one is kind of somewhere in a no-man's-land between being adorable and a bit frightening. Lovable, but still strange enough to be included here. These ones, however, are just plain off-putting. Someone get this geezer some help. Now, onto th...