It’s another of my series of Islington phone boxes.
(Coordinates 51°53’43.3″N, 0°10’50.1″W.)
This one is just a few metres down from last week’s phone box – the two of them flank a sofa shop. Very pretty, even in the November rain.
Update 5th February 2026: added coordinate link, but in the process I discovered that this phone box has sadly been removed 🙁 (at some point between July 2019 and November 2020 according to Street View).
A nice day today! Mum and Dad popped in on their way back home to Edinburgh after getting off the ferry. Dad was feeling poorly due to some dodgy ferry buffet food, so they stayed for a few hours until he was feeling well enough to drive home, and we had a really good catchup (and Dad mended my broken dressing room stool. Thanks, Dad!).
In the afternoon I did some work for a new client – international relations this time! – and Geth and I listened to all the bands that are playing an upcoming music festival that we’re going to.
SP day today, so I made a nice omelette for tea. Hoping to get a few pounds off at weigh-in tomorrow, as I’ve got a big weekend coming up.
One of those days working for lots of different clients, and hence reading lots of different interesting things. I now know a bit more about astrobiology and financial trading than I did this morning.
Hardly any of the papers I edit for my clients (who are almost all academics) are on topics that I would ever have thought to look into for myself. Nevertheless, I almost always find them interesting, and have added significantly to my stock of useless knowledge through my editing work.
I just need to find a pub quiz that regularly has rounds on sociological theory and statistical equations, so I can put it to good use!
One of the nice things about working from home is that I can have whatever I like on in the background as long as it’s not distracting. Usually, that’s music TV, but when Geth’s on holiday it tends to be whatever he happens to be using the TV for. For the last couple of weeks, it’s been Final Fantasy XIII-2, but today it was the European Championships marathon on iPlayer. Nice and relaxing to have on while I was working.
The next couple of weeks are going to be a bit hectic, so I’ve spent the evening planning my work out to make sure everything will get done. A bit more writing tonight too – I won’t have the chance for the next wee while, sadly!
I had a good long run this morning – 13k round Newcastle – but between that and yesterday’s parkrun, my legs are a bit tired now, so it’ll be good to have a rest day tomorrow.
I spent the rest of the day writing. I have several projects that I’m very excited about at the moment and I’m really looking forward to getting into the meat of them. I’m also already looking forward to this year’s NaNoWriMo – another reason I love autumn.
Back to work tomorrow – I’m working for a couple of new clients this week, so it should be interesting.
*blinks* What’s this? A couple of days where I don’t have to work, and my only appointment is parkrun? It’s been a while since I’ve had this experience.
I really enjoyed parkrun this morning. I wasn’t quite as fast as I have been recently, but I still got a respectable 31:30, my third best ever time. It was nice to catch up with a few people we hadn’t seen in a while, too.
After we got back, showered and breakfasted, Geth fell back into Final Fantasy XIII-2 while I got some novel writing done. Another thing that’s not happened since…actually, I can’t remember.
I do have another run to do tomorrow – and I should probably get some house stuff done, which is another project that’s looming ominously – but I’m hoping to have some writing time again as well. The inspiration is strong at the moment, and I need to make the most of it.
I was meant to go for a long run this morning and then come home and get on with some work to the sounds of Geth playing Final Fantasy XIII-2. Unfortunately, the first thing we discovered this morning was that we’d accidentally left all my essential running stuff in a drawer in Edinburgh at the weekend, so Geth had to get an emergency train up to Mum and Dad’s today and collect it.
As such, there was no run for me, and Geth did not have the quiet videogaming day he was planning. I will be cramming all my running into the weekend instead.
We’re now watching Disenchantment, the new Matt Groening cartoon on Netflix. I’m quite enjoying it!
I didn’t feel like woman of the split second today (I was a bit delicate after a few drinks last night), let alone woman of the year, but that’s the award I got from my Slimming World group this morning!
I sort of feel like I didn’t earn it, because we didn’t vote on it like we usually do. The reason is that I’m the only person in my group who qualifies for the regional competition, because I’ve lost more than four stone. I have to fill in a questionnaire for my consultant to send in along with before and after photos, which is a bit nervewracking!
After group and a bit of email admin, I had a nice afternoon off. Back to work tomorrow!
We move on today to a series of Islington phone boxes from November 2016.
(Coordinates 51°53’40.8″N, 0°10’52.3″W.)
Geth and I have been going to London in November for a few years in a row, due to the Beat:Cancer charity gig taking place at Slimelight. Unfortunately, we’ll be giving it a miss this year, as we already have too many gigs going on in the autumn. As such, I will have to wait until the London Marathon in April before I can start collecting pictures of London phone boxes again!
In the meantime, I have a lot of them to show you. Stay tuned for the next few weeks for more Islington examples.
Update 5th February 2026: added coordinate link.