I have my grandmother's cornice brush (does anyone have cornices these days? Not sure what they are, but I'm sure the Net will tell me... yes, it does. Now I know...) - which is a soft bristle brush on a 6ft bamboo cane. Good for cobwebs on the ceiling.
I'm still a bit worried that @B3 is dusting the top of the wardrobe - that comes into my category of "if you can't see it from ground level, leave it be"
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I have my grandmother's cornice brush (does anyone have cornices these days? Not sure what they are, but I'm sure the Net will tell me... yes, it does. Now I know...) - which is a soft bristle brush on a 6ft bamboo cane. Good for cobwebs on the ceiling.
I'm still a bit worried that @B3 is dusting the top of the wardrobe - that comes into my category of "if you can't see it from ground level, leave it be"
As my dear late Mother would have said. "Never trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you"
You know when you squirt a squeak with WD40, it works and you go looking for something else to squirt? It's a bit like that. Flick around and find something else to flick. Though I have to admit, standing on the bed for a flick was a bit extreme😳
We’ve got visitors tomorrow and, apparently, visitors have a free pass to run a finger along the top of picture frames looking for dust. I am on dusting fatigues today. Except I have just been interrupted by the Tesco delivery driver who, I discovered while chatting to him, is a furloughed BA pilot.
I’m also busy because the High Sheriff is visiting the village on Monday and I’m delegated to show him round. It therefore falls on me to organise the tea party afterwards and I am treading very, very carefully through the minefield of who gets invited and who does not.
I'm still a bit worried that @B3 is dusting the top of the wardrobe - that comes into my category of "if you can't see it from ground level, leave it be"
That theory only holds good if you don't have a nephew who shot up about 6" in the space of a year, comes to visit, and says to his aunt "Auntie Ros have you seen the amount of dust on top of this cabinet?" Everybody thought it was hilarious, apart from my missus - the auntie. I'd seen the dust but classed it as patina
Yes Dove that's what I had in mind,I have a sheep skin jobbie on a stick.wet it,and wash the ceilings, eh wet doesn't sound like a good Idea. I had a pink feather one,but apparently it was the moulting season.damp dusting here,makes sense, otherwise you just move it around.
@Liriodendron. Is that cornice thing like a toilet brush on a very long stick? My mum has one of those too. Amazing what you can buy for storage too. Banana shaped plastic containers for taking your banana to work. That kind of thing. Lakeland is full of ithinkillbeabletomanagewithoutoneofthose type things.
I must admit I hadn't seen it for ages and thought my wife had bequeathed to her sister in her will - but there it was hanging in the understairs cupboard and in a plastic sleeve! I think we may have the same duster! No how many people can you say that to?! Mine is an Astonish (other brands are available) - and I was suitably astonished whenever I saw it used.
And I did my wife a great disservice as the sleeve has been obviously well used and held together with duck (duct?) tape...she must have been a closet duster. Maybe I'll serendipitously come across her sloe gin stash as well at some point....
Edited to add: Are you ever finished dusting....? What point the sleeve. Be duster proud and show it off to the world.
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I'm still a bit worried that @B3 is dusting the top of the wardrobe - that comes into my category of "if you can't see it from ground level, leave it be"
"Never trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you"
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I’m also busy because the High Sheriff is visiting the village on Monday and I’m delegated to show him round. It therefore falls on me to organise the tea party afterwards and I am treading very, very carefully through the minefield of who gets invited and who does not.
Is that cornice thing like a toilet brush on a very long stick? My mum has one of those too.
Amazing what you can buy for storage too. Banana shaped plastic containers for taking your banana to work. That kind of thing.
Lakeland is full of ithinkillbeabletomanagewithoutoneofthose type things.