Phone Box Thursday: State of the Phone Box

Bit of a ramble today to update about what will be coming for future phone box posts!

I’m up to date with the phone box logging as it stands, but have quite a few boxes in my notes that for various reasons I wasn’t able to photograph. I have plans to ‘collect’ some of them later this year but for now I have logged everything (bar one or two photos for which I need to do a bit more research).

The long-promised phone box map – if you’ve been following for the last few months you’ll know that all phone box posts are now complete with coordinates, so they’re ready to go once I start working on this project! The question is when I’ll have time to do so, but I might be able to get a better sense of that during an upcoming writing retreat.

After a multi-year break I am back marathoning Doctor Who again, so there will be an eventual return to my sub-series of ‘The Wrong Phone Box’ posts. I also have one or two videogame phone box features in the planning.

I also still need to do this book review I promised over four years ago 😬 plus at least one post about other phone box paraphernalia I have in the house!

Lots in the pipeline, but it will be a bit quiet for the next few weeks. Hoping to keep sharing progress though!

parkrunday: Town Moor #700

It was lovely to be at the celebratory 700th Town Moor parkrun, especially as (a) it was Easter weekend and (b) it’s still the two-lap course 😀

Also back in my fast shoes. Photo from Town Moor parkrun Facebook page.

I did step up the effort level a smidge this time (aided by nylon plate shoes and the fact that it wasn’t blowing a gale like it had been the weekend before; Storm Dave was yet to arrive in Newcastle), but I was pretty surprised at the end to find I’d taken two minutes off my time from the previous attempt! Still a long way from PB shape but we’ll keep chipping away.

parkrunday: Town Moor #699

Broke my streak of weekly improvement at Town Moor today, but given the high winds I’m not too fussed. Keeping a consistent effort week on week.

Celebrating milestones with the club before the start. Photo by Wasif at TMBR.

Expecting to be back on the Moor next week to celebrate the big 700th event!

parkrunday: Town Moor #698

All of these parkrunday posts are going to look the same for a little while. I usually rotate my parkruns even when staying local, but I’m finding that the temporary Town Moor two-lap course is really useful for measuring my progress while I’m coming back from injury, so I’ll be doing it for the foreseeable.

It was my 300th parkrun, so it was nice to celebrate one of those interim unofficial milestones! It was also nice to run in short sleeves – spring has been good to us so far.