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Reasons to be cheerful 2021

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The sleeve is to stop your duster from getting dusty.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SuesynSuesyn Posts: 664
    My 2 granddaughters and their cousin were playing hide and seek in my house. One way to get the floorboards under the beds dusted but just a bit embarrassed when their mums both laughed. 
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Hostafan1 said:
    Sad that preventing an uplift which could have a really beneficial effect to those pensioners on low incomes is viewed by some as a reason to be cheerful.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    What's the point of s duster that doesn't hold dust! Still feeling cheerful. Just been to my local nursery (,itsd next door to George Orwell's Animal Farm) Got a Fatsia, Spider Web,white astilbe,for my shadey Sissinghurst border. A bright pink Japanese Anemone,and electric blue germanium,for the dry shade,hubby is painting outside of bungalow
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328


    Granny's cornice brush.  It's missing a number of clumps of hair (could it be horsehair?  Not sure.) - perhaps not surprising given its age, which must be at least 100, I should think...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    This is the kind of thing she has. It's great for knocking cobwebs into your hair.


    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    edited July 2021
    Am I a Philistine here? I don't use dusters. I never understood what they did as it seemed to me they (I/he/she/it/they) just shoved the dust off the object and onto the floor or other objects. So I got a couple of attachments for the new hoover (other vacuums are available) that 'do' the dusting (a bit like the Disney (...a lot of men smoke but Walt Disney...) Sorcerer's Apprentice) - I just turn the hoover on and the head miraculously zooms over the surfaces, sucking up the dust. Blinking marvleyous.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Me too but you don't need an extendable stick on a toilet brush. Well we don't anyway.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    edited July 2021
    Dusters waste of time. Okay if you've got fingers across the picture frame visitors,but
    as @steveTu says they just move the dust from one location to another.
    Bucket of hot soapy water and a damp cloth works for me wipe-rinse wipe-rinse wipe rinse wipe-rinse... :D

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

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