Christmas is a lovely time of year and also a busy one there are menus to plan cards to be written last minute shopping to do mince pies to bakethe list goes on and on never mind itll all be worth it and anyway theres the christmas tree to decorate and thats a nice relaxing family tradition except when it comes to the lights no matter how carefully you put them away on twelfth night by the following december theyve mysteriously tangled themselves into a spaghetti like bundle