We didn't have a set plan for our walk today. Sometimes, we end up, where we end up! Typical of us to end up walking around a local graveyard!
I have a few rules when I take photos in graveyards. As a child we were told not to walk on graves out of respect. It has stayed with me till this day.
I don't publish gravestones that are quite recent or take photos of mourners, unless they're very blurred in the background.
I tend to stick to where the really old graves are. Their history fascinates me.
Just around the corner from the church is a disused phone box. Like other villages it's been transformed into a little library.
You can help yourself to a book and then take it back when you've finished it. These iconic phone boxes need to be preserved so it's a great way to utilise them.
I found an overgrown footpath at the side of the church. It leads to somewhere but that's to find out where, on another day.
#wednesdaywalk initiated by @tattoodjay.
Photos by @ellenripley - Julie S. All rights reserved.
This is where all the previous doctor whos have been buried.
Ha ha. Yes, I knew there was a connection somewhere. 😀
Wow! The place and atmosphere were just right for a
Miss Marple’s kind of solving a mysterious case of crime in a village. Very nice walk to explore the local surroundings!
Yes, it's exactly that sort of a place!
I have the same rules for myself when in a graveyard
How cool they turned the phone box into a library
Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :), I truly enjoy exploring the world virtually each Wednesday seeing walks from all around the globe and feeling I am there and experiencing it all myself, such as I did in your post just now :)
Even I have some morals. 😊😇
Or perhaps more shocking I do have morals lol 😂
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That's nice to see the transformation of the telephone booth into a little library. These seem to be popping up all over in the most interesting places. There's a little bit of everything for any taste by the looks of it.
Yes, it's a really good idea for the community. They sometimes put heart defibrillators in there as well.
Those books must have some shocking revelations haha
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I really like the idea of using a phone booth. That's great!
Recycling at its best!
Oooeee @ellenripley you've bought me to another mysterious and intriguing destination. I love your walks!
And that phone box. What a brilliant idea!
I'd love to see something like that- except our phone boxes- what left of them are nowhere near as colourful and charming as yours there, plus I'm sure ours would trashed every 5 minutes by the local 'wildlife'...
Thank you. Sometimes people leave vegetables in them to help yourself! You can also buy old red phone boxes for your garden but they can go for a couple of thousands of pounds, depending on the condition
Actually that's a great idea too- the fruit and veg honesty boxes...Well a telephone was was always used as either an honesty box or a lie detector box...🤣...yes mum I'll be home before bedtime....🤣
But I think it's a brilliant idea to use as a seedling greenhouse in the garden too!
I would love to have one or two in my future garden!
Oh, the times I've said that to my parents in my youth! The veg came in handy during lockdown, straight from people's allotments. 🙂
yes you see free ranging veg out here in some small country towns but not so much these days and certainaly not in telephone boxes...lol...
And how many times did those telephone boxes save you in those days too...oh yes I did ring from the phone box but no-one answered...or mum, can you come and puck me up from the pub please...(at 3 am...🤣..) Oh the things that I put my poor mum through so dad wouldn't find out...
We used to be able to tap the receiver several times to get free calls! We were very switched on kids!
I think we could both write a book about telephone boxes.
Haa that's funny!
I used to have a phone box that wood call everywhere for free so every Sunday night at 6pm I went there to call Mum from my new home in Newcastle which was 8 hours away and then one day the man came to fix it...so sad...so rude of him! lol..