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A little bit of travel
Lots of tv viewing lately
Images taken by me.
Some more tv scenes
You can rely on an Agatha Christie production to have a telephone scene.
Images taken by me.
Blog on
I love the little solar panel on this box in Whitstable (hard to see in the photo though).
Images taken by me watching tv:
On the little screen
Images taken by me.
Various appearances
Here’s another story I’ve just come across:
In Vermont, pay phones return free of charge in cellular dead zone
by: AMANDA SWINHART, Associated Press, 22 Jul 2025
TUNBRIDGE, Vt. (AP) — An electrical engineer by trade, Patrick Schlott has spent countless hours tinkering with new and old technology. But it wasn’t until he found himself living in rural Vermont that he realized his penchant for repairing old pay phones could provide a public service.
“I realized, wow, there’s no cell service for 10 miles (16 kilometers) in either direction,” he said. “The community could really benefit from something like this.”
For the full article please go to ABC4 Utah: https://www.abc4.com/news/national/ap-vermont-engineer-revives-pay-phones-for-free-calls-in-areas-with-poor-cell-service
Phone box baby
A man abandoned as a baby in a phone booth 64 years ago is about to meet his birth mother…
Read the full article on the Daily Mail – https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-6079245/Man-abandoned-baby-phone-booth-meet-mother-taking-ancestry-DNA-kit.html
Bits and pieces
Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/35531871/uk-red-phone-box-graveyard/
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Tagged curiosity, Egypt, heritage and history, rural, television, UK, USA
The small screen lately
The above are from Kaos, which I’m doing a binge of at the moment.
The ones below are from the movie Argyll (a contribution from a flight across the globe somewhere), the backyard of The Taskmaster‘s house and Australian comedy Colin from Accounts.
Watching the Box
