A very Skinny Library by ladymagpie

A very Skinny Library

As a magpie I thought I would fly out to find another geocache, you know us magpies always looking for something shiny or even something nice to eat. Landing in the area I was confronted with a village phone box, obviously not used these days to ring home to say "Mummy I'm going to be late".

So what many of these little villages have done is to use them to hold either a heart defibrillator or, as in this case, the village library. I had to search for a specific book which would have been okay if it had been on the shelves in my eye-line, but it wasn't.

Trying to bend over in such a confined space for me, meant that I kept bashing my aspidistra against a very heavy door, trapping me in the confined space. I'm sure other more slimmer geocachers could possibly swing a hula-hoop in there, but not me I'm afraid.

Anyway the cache was found, log book signed and replaced where it had been. I spent ages then searching for a copy of "50 Shades of Grey", I still haven't read it you know.

View with the black background if you have time.
This is an excellent photo Lady M. I'm impressed that the phone box AND the books on the far side of the phone box are all in focus.
I too would have difficulty looking for a book that wasn't at eye level in a phone box.
November 26th, 2018  
Excellent....these are becoming popular....there is one in the village near to us too.....
November 26th, 2018  
Superman would have trouble in that phone booth (box), but I would think he would get a lot of onlookers
November 26th, 2018  
Bep
A lovely image of this 'telephone library'.
There's one in my village too; it opened in June 2016. http://365project.org/gijsje/365/2016-06-19
November 26th, 2018  
A lovely library. They seem to be getting popular in telephone boxes. Fav!! 😀
November 26th, 2018  
What a great use of our lovely redundant telephone boxes!
November 26th, 2018  
A cool use of redundant ph boxes
November 26th, 2018  
I wouldn't have thought the phone box well sealed enough to protect books - love this idea!
November 26th, 2018  
@koalagardens Oh yes it's very dry and the door is so heavy that when it closes it's a good seal.
November 26th, 2018  
@ladymagpie much better for the job than our old ones here then! thanks for replying :)
November 26th, 2018  
Wonderful capture of this creative use of the old phone box! Now I'm sure your beak would have helped you find the book :) fav
November 26th, 2018  
@gilbertwood I couldn't bend over to get my beak on the book, had to reverse through the door to get bent over and down to it.
November 26th, 2018  
Nice shot
November 26th, 2018  
I love this clear picture and love how you have displayed it! fav
November 27th, 2018  
Wonderful idea Fav
November 27th, 2018  
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