The End of the Line

Preparing for painters coming to Moonbase I've stripped out some old cables.

I did it with a slight tear in my eye as these were telephone cables to the loft.

Back in 2004 when the attic was made into an Ebay office I installed a landline up there. Rather than get a twin phone set I decided to have as old a phone as I could have from my collection of old telephones.

I opted for a green GPO dial phone on my desk. It was fun seeing it alongside old toys for sale like Masters of the Universe or whatever I had in that day.

To do it I needed cables from the BT point two floors down! So up they went, those cables got tucked under skirting, hidden under carpets, tacked to stairs and walls and eventually ending up in the loft. 

I think I got the phone cables from Wilkos. Great fun installing them.

So it was with sadness that I ripped them all out. I no longer need a landline phone in the loft because I no longer Ebay full time. That ended in 2007. My Power Seller days were over.

Since then the attic has become the traditional family dump for everything needed but unimportant, the exceptions being the Christmas decs and my old toys!

It's always a moment when one technology boots out another. Now it's just a landline downstairs and the ubiquitous all-knowing mobile. Hardly any cables.

I do miss those days in the attic answering toy queries on my dial phone.

Did you have landline phone cables everywhere readers? Did you have an extension phone?