Cute or just weird

I love finding places like this. I'm the Loyd Grossman of abandoned buildings. Sort of. 

On a trip to the south of Spain last week, ostensibly to help my mate Mark out with a bit of concreting on his finca, I wandered off up the rambla in search of things to photograph and came across what appeared to be a disused quarry hut. Two rooms, a shower that still worked, a few pieces of furniture slowly taking on a covering of pigeon shit, rotting clothing on hooks on the walls, a bag with a flask, a half-empty bottle... in fact everything seemed pretty much as it had been left by the last quarrymen, and it seemed they left in a bit of a hurry.  The calendar on the wall doesn't have a year, but February begins on a Thursday and the paper is still pretty clean, so in all likelihood it's from 2007. But more interesting than the calendar is the soft porn on the walls. There's always something interesting about rotting, faded, blueing porn, but these were all the more fascinating for the odd rubbing marks around the rude bits. Did the quarrymen touch them every morning for good luck on the way out to work? Or when they had showered off the dust, changed and were on the way home? Did the marks show while the building was still in use, or have they only appeared with the passage of time, the sweat of fingers rotting the paper gradually in betrayal of some secret fetish?