From RICHARD JAMES
I was enjoying a relaxing hot bath (Letters, 12 September). It had been
a long hard day at the office but now I was at peace with the world. Then,
something at the far end of the bath caught my attention. Through the misty
atmosphere my eyes gradually focused on two – what were they? – two rusty
wires protruding from two of the six holes of the overflow pipe. But why
were they waving about? After a few moments one of them disappeared. The
another one appeared alongside the remaining one in the same hole. They
continued to wave about and now bend in a curious way. My eyes opened wide.
The black hole suddenly seemed to swell in size – and then with a squeeze
and a heave a big black spider hopped into my bath – and I promptly hopped
out.
Richard James Cambridge
