As a general rule cables in our house do not behave like this. They are unruly things that jump out of cupboards and sprawl across the floor. If you leave the lid off a box of cables they start to sneak out. They jumble themselves up, tangle round other things and generally make a nuisance of themselves. We don’t understand how it happens but happen it does. It seems clear that they have minds of their own.

Today we’ve been on one of our far-too-regular-for-our-own-good trips to the dump. Once again, we had a car stuffed to the roof with things that no one has wanted for a lot of years. I’m not kidding, included in the trip were three black sacks full of video tapes. One of VHS tapes and the other two full of Betamax ones. As DM rightly said, everything on them is on youtube and what’s on the tapes after 35 years isn’t likely to be any less mushy than the youtube clips, which were made from someone else’s video tapes. He’s right and wrong in as much as I know from losing hours of my life jumping my way through old music videos on youtube BUT the odd little thing has slipped through the youtube net and of course it’s always the thing you want to see most!

While we were packing up the car to go, there were cables wriggling around everywhere, getting snagged on things and generally making our task more challenging than it needed to be. We did the deed then came home to find that while we were out, a load of cables had jumped out of boxes and were doing spaghetti impressions all over the floor. We’re trying to work out how it happens because we thought (clearly very mistakenly) that they were inanimate objects, simply there to do our bidding, but no,,,apparently not.

When I walked into the dining room that’s still not a dining room or even a woodwork shop, I noticed this mike stand, with a cable very neatly coiled around it and decided that it’d be a good idea to get the shot to use in evidence when, tomorrow, I come home to find more black spaghetti!