Is that the phone?

Some things,

large or small,

can instantly make you feel happy.

Jog memories.

But how about an old fashioned phone box?
Probably just me on this one but let me tell you anyway...

Now there used to be one of these right outside my house!

I've mentioned before that this is my Grandma's old house,
(would it spoil your illusion if I tell you it's ex-council hee hee
not the thatch farmhouse I would love you to believe)

But the lovely
bright red box
has gone,
gone to telephone heaven

~and where is this telephone heaven?

Well I'm not sure, but I do know there is one in the local demolition yard and I want it!

I want to put it back in my garden!

Imagine the fun the boys could have with it.

Now my Grandparents didn't have a telephone,

they used the red phone box of course,

my Mum would even ring it to speak to them!

Yes you could hear it ringing from inside the house.

My brill Dad

'AKA Grando' 

worked all his life for BT,

but would my Grandma have a phone line fitted?

Nope, not she!

(nor would she have central heating, double glazing, a fitted kitchen

 or any form of hot water that didn't come from the coal fire!)

 Bless her!

I wish she could see the house now,

I'm sure she'd like it!

When I was a girl,

I used to go out with my Dad on 'call-outs'

in his little yellow van.

To remote farms or phone boxes to fix faults.

He would get a phone call and give me a whistle,

we'd jump in the yellow van and off we'd go,

visiting many lovely remote places

and sometimes quite unusual folk!

I was his little mate in that van on those wintery weekends,

or balmy Summer evenings.

All this is leading to a little story BF

pointed out that I may like.

About a village near him

who adopted their phone box and gave it a new lease of life!

As a book exchange!

It's a lovely story,

read about it here!

So???

How about it?

A Red phone box in my garden,

as a hen house maybe?

Tardis?

Den?

Endless possibilities.

Bet they don't come cheap though!

Love Claire. x

P.S.  I'm helping my pal Emma at

Em's shabby shack

to do a swop,

we thought it would be good to share it,

as we haven't done one before.

We have a brill theme organised

so...

watch this space!