Hoovering

It's never been my favourite of all the housekeeping duties but I discovered today that the powers of the vacuum cleaner are vastly under-rated. The headboard for my bed appears to have developed some kind of excema and the paint has flaked off - now all sucked up. A family of spiders had been festooning my ceiling with silky webby garlands - and unfortunately for the spiders, after 10 minutes of climbing over my bed like some kind of domestic Ghostbuster I now have clean lines in the corners all ready for painting. I even used it to dust my shelves and drawer units. Why did not I think of doing any of this beforehand?

The saddest part of today was having to vacuum up the remains of my beloved Dior mannequin which met an untimely end during a furniture rearrangement exercise. May she rest in peace.