The weather isn't very British; the shrubs aren't very British; but what's that? Nothing could be more British than a red telephone box!
I saw this one in Malta and there were plenty of others there - here's two . . .
Of course we still see them in Britain. Occasionally. They are strategically left for tourists to take pictures of them, or rather of themselves beside them.
Perhaps it is a strange thing that places that in other ways have gladly shed their connections to Britain have kept connections with things that Britain has itself abandoned. If it isn't the telephone boxes it is a random London red double-decker of a kind almost untraceable in London today.
It illustrates how differently we choose to keep rooted or at least referenced. In London we don't keep red telephone boxes or open back buses, in former connected countries they don't keep the Queen's head on stamps and currency.
In church worship you are more likely to sing an old evangelical hymn during a High Mass or prior to a liberal Bible-denying sermon in a church that kept the hymnbook but gave up trust in the Bible than you are to sing such a hymn in churches that have kept their simple trust in the Bible but given up the hymnbook.
Of course we still see them in Britain. Occasionally. They are strategically left for tourists to take pictures of them, or rather of themselves beside them.
Perhaps it is a strange thing that places that in other ways have gladly shed their connections to Britain have kept connections with things that Britain has itself abandoned. If it isn't the telephone boxes it is a random London red double-decker of a kind almost untraceable in London today.
It illustrates how differently we choose to keep rooted or at least referenced. In London we don't keep red telephone boxes or open back buses, in former connected countries they don't keep the Queen's head on stamps and currency.
In church worship you are more likely to sing an old evangelical hymn during a High Mass or prior to a liberal Bible-denying sermon in a church that kept the hymnbook but gave up trust in the Bible than you are to sing such a hymn in churches that have kept their simple trust in the Bible but given up the hymnbook.
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