Tuesday 17-10-2006

Now here’s a funny thought.
Who was the very first person to whip a feather out of an ostriches bum and wipe it over the mantle piece? thus creating the dawning of the golden age of the feather duster.
I ponder this question because one of the big problems of living in a partial desert area like this one of ours is, of course, it does tends to get dusty, especially if you disturb the ground with a car by driving over a rough camino, or worse still ,by flattening a site with a ruddy great JCB in readiness to build a house. I can wash the car in the morning and by driving around here it can be covered in dust again by the same afternoon. I don’t mean just your little itsy-bitsy dust as in the UK, after a week or two slovenly house keeping, I mean you can spoon this dust off the back windscreen wipers and bumper after only a very short space of time or any journey along a camino. The dust even sticks to your own finger prints on the car. The inside of the car is not too bad but every few days one needs to de-dust this also, and the very best of tools to do this de-dusting with is an ostrich feather duster. Everyone uses them here because they are so very efficient.
One presumes that an ostrich’s nest and cage are dust free areas? One can also imagine hundreds of ostriches walking around with no bum feathers to protect their modesty.
It was just another of the funny little thoughts I have from time to time that keep me amused.
The pictures today were going to be of me dusting with my ostrich feather duster, but the Spanish sensor but a ban on them ;-)))