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I’ve been exploring forbidden places — underground tunnels at a great place called Sleepy City.
I am posting some photos to show where I was.
And it was a blast, by the way. I love this kind of shit, the grimier the better.

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Question: do we love and even identify with abandoned places because we feel abandoned ourselves?
Or are we just reacting against the consumer culture that presses the shiny, plastic and new onto us so aggressively?
Personally, I think old things need new friends and defenders, and I’m prepared to be radical about this.
As the team at Sleepy City are.

A neat thing with the website is the way it’s organised — I do love a good tag cloud, and intriguing words hook me in every time.

Interesting people there too (what people there are).

Had a chat with the guy you’re looking and he was pretty cool. His name is Greg and he lives down there in the summer.

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The tunnel comes out near my current digs in Royston Vasey, where Cloggo also lives.

In fact he found this place for me and partially furnished himself before I even arrived, knowing my love of deep red, velvet, wood and objects with a past.

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I will tell you more about this place and my thoughts on RV soon but you can go into the room without me and when you do Cloggo will be there to explain the period during which I was transformed from underground explorer to high-flyer (by RV standards, ha ha).

Say hello to him!

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