A pensioner¹ has found a novel use for an old red telephone box, turning it into a lavatory².

英国一位退休老人近日极富创意地将一座陈旧的红色电话亭改造成一间室外卫生间。

The red telephone box converted into a toilet.

John Long, 73, spent months converting the cubicle³（小卧室，小隔间） into a loo（厕所，洗手间） after finding the disused box in a reclamation⁴（开垦，收回） yard in Carhampton, Somerset.

The retired⁵ salesman, from Taunton, Somerset, fitted the telephone box with a porcelain⁶（瓷质的） lavatory pan, hand basin, high-level cistern⁷, frosted glass panes⁸, a heater and a red tennis ball on the end of the lavatory chain.

He said: ''I've done lots of projects, but this is one of the biggest. It's worked out extremely well – better than expected.

''I've wanted a red telephone box for years and I didn't have an outside lavatory, so I thought I could combine the two.

''To be honest, I probably use it more often than the internal lavatory now. It's just so convenient.''

Mr Long spent months transforming the telephone box and even crept out at night to measure another box down the road to check everything would fit.

''I took a pan to a red telephone kiosk（电话亭） down the road, sat on it, hoping and praying no one would come along and take me off to a nut house,'' he said.

''Because of the high-level cistern（水箱，水池） , the water comes down like an avalanche⁹（雪崩） ."

Despite their decline in numbers in recent years, the red telephone box regularly tops polls as one of Britain's most iconic structures.

The Post Office first introduced red phone boxes in the 1920s designed by Sir Gilbert Scott.