Thanks to Shiraz for this link for the blog:
“The famous phone boxes”: a review of ‘Out of Order by David Mach
Miniature models
I have found myself in charge of a fish pond at the new house and in going into fish, pond and plant shops I came across miniature versions of the classic red phone box:
TV, film and theatre
TV
American Gods
American Gods
Brokenwood Mysteries (New Zealand)
Legion
Timeless
Timeless
Blacklist: Redemption
Blacklist
Blacklist
Waking the Dead
FILM
Imposter (2012)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
(The woman above wears a jacket just like one I remember my Mum had.)
Fire Walk With Me
THEATRE
An Inspector Calls (London Playhouse Theatre 2017)
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Are dogs scared of phone boxes?
I was browsing in a charity shop and came across a book on dog behaviour. I took a photo of the back of the book cover:
Baden Baden
We visited Germany, briefly, on the way to a party in nearby France. I saw no phone boxes in the streets of Strasbourg (where we had been staying prior) – very strange – but here is one from the town of Baden Baden.
Christmas tv viewing
Woody Allen pretends to make a phone call in the tv series ‘Crisis in six scenes‘ and in the New Year’s day ‘Sherlock‘ episode there is a classic London scene with a phone box…
Retail therapy
The Lego store in Leicester Square (‘i’ newspaper 26/12/16):
Remember where it started
I visited the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London recently and was reminded of why this blog exists in the first place:
This is a wonderful museum and I can’t believe I have lived in London for almost 20 years and never visited before!
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