I suppose everyone has a drawer full of cables. Quite how I gathered so many I am not sure, I suspect more lie under this desk but I am afraid to look.
Some of these must belong to old computers, others to aged phones or even older computers. The old printer must account for some but there are more than I expected. Some have seen much use, others remain in the plastic bags, unopened and without a reason for existence. Colour coding the cables does not seem to have happened early on, 'you can have any colour cable you like as long as it's black' appears to be the norm. Each new, overpriced, item comes with cables, that explains why so many are still untouched. However if I throw one out it is inevitable that tomorrow I will be looking for one so I had better wrap them nicely and hide elsewhere, possibly in the cupboard outside the door. Actually, that might not be a good idea, I just remembered there is a box full of more such cables and plugs in there! I shall later spend some time untangling these and that makes me think of a great party game, 'tidy the cables!' Have several piles off cables lying there and see who untangles them first. They deserve a prize.
In times past you looked a a large round copper coin and found on one side the King or Queen's Head and on the other Britannia sitting there planning to steal other peoples countries. On other coins such as the three pence piece you would find a portcullis for reasons I do not comprehend, possibly referring to Parliament perhaps. Anyway while Britannia, now decked out in charity shop clobber, still retains her place on some coins there is a wide range of events, books, and cut up flags found elsewhere.
For reasons that escape me Beatrix Potter is found on may coins with her story book characters also to be found. Some of these sell at high prices, not the ones I find, and others just keep doing the rounds passing through many hands and soon forgotten without anyone looking at them. I suppose those who write stories could make a tale about a 50 pence piece and its travels. Some feature the flags of the Home nations, or at least bits of them for reasons that are unclear, artistic perhaps? One or two of the £2 coins have excellent images of Great War Battleships offered in 2014 to commemorate the Great War itself. Very good I say. Now of course I will have to make more effort checking my wealth to see if one of the rare Beatrix Potter characters appears, it might make me rich.
