First thing most Saturdays I am round here attempting to find fruit and veg that will keep my slim lithe fifteen and a half stone. I have been attempting to lose weight, especially when it touched 16 stone again recently and have decided a more disciplined routine is required. This means less home made oatcakes, flapjacks and shortbread. The trouble with such goodies is the tendency to be fattening, especially as I tend to eat them all, quickly! So once again I was at the markets best fruit and veg stall seeking the weeks supply. Bananas, apples, small orange things, and so on. Naturally, as I settled down to watch the football on BBC Alba I was stuffing my face with chips!
Well I was hungry......
Wandering about in the early morning sunshine, the wind still from Siberia, I photographed some buildings for the house project. Amongst Grade II listed buildings we find this telephone box. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 and produced by a variety of manufacturers, these are fast disappearing from our streets. The use of mobile phones, plus the majority of homes possessing land lines, such boxes are falling out of use and into disrepair. Many have gone altogether but surely there is a need for a few to remain? This is a very thin picture because the box now sits in the midst of scaffolding as the 'Swan' pub is repainted. Otherwise it would stand out from the pub which may have stood here for seven hundred years.
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