Another Scottish phone box sent in by Bill today.
(Coordinates 56°68’62.5″N, 5°21’86.0″W.)
A very well-kept phone box outside a B&B. Phone still intact too!
Last phone box of the year next week, and then there’ll be a few weeks of alternative phone box posts to kick off 2021. Watch this space…
In case you missed it yesterday, you can play my new graphical text adventure game here!
Today’s photo is from Hogmanay 2001. Dad is usually to be found playing traditional Scottish tunes at various points during the Christmas period!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Pet Shop Boys – ‘Heart’
Still no running vlog. Sorry I’m behind with that, it’s been a mad few days! I’ll try and have it posted by Wednesday.
I’m taking a bit of time off over Christmas, so for the next couple of weeks, I’ll be posting an old photo every day instead of doing a diary blog post.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Pet Shop Boys – ‘Heart’
Robbie Williams – ‘Time For Change’
Here’s another Scottish phone box sent in by Bill.
(Coordinates 57°68’10.9″N, 4°03’29.0″W.)
The village is very picturesque, and the phone box is no exception!
More from Scotland next week.
I live in vintage ’80s jumpers at this time of year, and this pink and black one – picked up at a vintage fair in late 2017 – is still one of my favourites.
This year, I’ve been wearing it with my Christmas loungewear from Lucy Locket Loves, because it really picks up the bright pink stars in the pattern. Wide trousers are not super ’80s so I tuck them into slouch boots if I want to look period appropriate!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Blondie – ‘Hanging On The Telephone’
Wham! – ‘Last Christmas’
Bill sent in this white-painted phone box from the Halliwell Jones garage in Warrington.
(Coordinates 53°40’20.4″N, 2°59’36.3″W.)
Interestingly, this box has only recently been painted white. In all the Street View images from 2014 to 2019, you can see that it used to be yellow! Either way, it makes a very nice addition to the garage forecourt.
Back to the regularly-scheduled red phone boxes next week.
I’ve had this badge since 1988.
Mum and Dad took me to the ‘Free Nelson Mandela’ march on Glasgow Green. I was only three but I remember the crowds and the chanting vividly, and being able to watch the speakers and performers on the stage from a long way back in the crowd. I have a memory of being up on a ladder in order to be able to see, although I may be misremembering this as I’m not sure we would have taken a ladder all the way from Edinburgh!
I have a lot of badges, but this is the most special one.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Cast of Grease – ‘Greased Lightning’
Duran Duran – ‘Femme Fatale’
Wham! – ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go’
Here’s another phone box from the yard I mentioned last week.
(I won’t post the exact street or GPS coordinates as it looks like private property.)
This box is a K6, and looks pretty dinky next to last week’s K2. There are a lot of vintage postboxes there too, but I’m not in the business of ‘Postbox Monday’ so it was just the phone boxes I photographed!
Further south again next week.
