I mentioned when I wrote about recent housekeeping practices at Nogglestead that I dust upstairs every week (fallen to mostly every week) and the downstairs every two weeks (mostly).
But the practices mean that two things are not dusted often at all.
I use Swiffer Dusters for dusting, which comprise a handle and a disposable synthetic feather duster that’s probably coating everything I own with deadly microplastics and probably only knocks the dust to the floor so that the vacuum can redistribute it at a later time. But: When I’m dusting the upstairs, I close the gate to the lower level so I can dust it, and I can reach the large piece of Ethan Allanesque bourgeois art with the extended handle. And when I go downstairs, I stage the box of dusters on the table down there as I go since all the books and videos down there tend to take two or three (or four sometimes on mostly weeks).
So I tend to overlook the light fixture and the Packers objet d’art on the lower part of the stairwell. Probably for months at a time.
So there you go: Should you happen to visit Nogglestead, now you know where to run your finger to embarrass your hosts.
