We found another phone box while in Dumfries and Galloway at the weekend!
(Coordinates 54°79’20.9″N, 4°43’32.2″W.)
It doesn’t look like there’s a phone in this one – and it’s fenced off so I couldn’t open it to check. I’m guessing that’s a periscope attached to the roof, but I’ve no idea why!
I took back a bit of the garage today – the bit that was full of empty cardboard boxes being kept in case I needed them. I don’t need them – I’m not moving house any time soon – and there’s no point in them taking up space, even when it’s a ‘good box’. There will always be more coming into the house as that is the way of things, and so there’ll always be one or two around if I do need them for postal packaging etc.
Recycling bin will be nice and full for the next couple of months!
We had a good wander today with Mum and Dad, visiting Torbridge Stone Circle, Druchtag Motte, St Ninian’s Cave and Isle of Whithorn. We even found a previously-unfound red phone box for my collection!
Lovely day for it and it looks like we might have good weather back at home as well. Heading back tomorrow.
I did a 10-miler on quiet country roads this morning. It felt nice and steady and was a real confidence booster for the GNR in five weeks’ time. I continue to be amazed by how well my spondylitis medication is working – all the pain and stiffness that was stopping me from running properly on my long runs (and often my short runs) is just gone. I’m really excited about going forward with my longer-distance running now.
After three good running days in a row I’m looking forward to some gentle one-milers over the next few days.
Ticking off the last of the three parkruns currently available for the southwest corner of Scotland. Crichton is a lovely setting as it’s a big park with lots of old medical buildings dotted around. However, I didn’t really notice any of that as I was going round today, as I was killing myself trying to get sub-30 (paced by Geth)!
Crichton, I would say, has ‘medium undulation’. It’s not insanely hilly but it’s certainly not flat. As such, it felt much harder than doing the pancake-flat Agnew a fortnight ago. I didn’t quite get my sub-30 – I finished in 30:25 – but I’m going to keep trying, as I can feel it’s close now.
The plan is to be back on Town Moor next week, so maybe then…
A really good 24 hours. I found out late last night that I’d come third in the most recent game competition I entered, I finally made it to the social run group I’d been meaning to join this morning and now I’m back in Dumfries and Galloway for some more running adventures here. Looking forward to the next few days!
Today I added coordinates for the nice row of four phone boxes in City Square, Leeds.
Coordinate-finding is coming along nicely. I have about another 30 phone box locations to update with coordinates, and then I should be able to move onto making my interactive map next year.
Another medical saga today, but it’s a bit depressing to go into and it worked out okay in the end. Time to think about more interesting things!
The initial stages of the new game are going well, though I’m taking it fairly slowly this week as I ease back into it. I’ve also got a couple of short games that I plan to play over the next few days, especially as we’ll be travelling again for a couple of days.