As it is Boxing Day, domestic matters tend to dominate, so here’s a vacuum cleaning tip.
Take an imaginary scenario where you are fiddling around in the kitchen when for some wholly inexplicable reason you manage to tip a substantial pile of instant coffee granules onto the floor. A natural reaction is to seize hold of the Henry vacuum cleaner, tow it into the kitchen and vacuum up the mess.
But beware!
When you use the Henry again and before changing the bag because they last for ages, you may notice a surprisingly unpleasant stale coffee aroma from the vac’s exhaust air. It’s rather like, but worse than the aroma of unwashed coffee cups which have been sitting around for too long – say six months.
11 comments:
I detect the voice of experience! Many years ago we had an Alsatian/Doberman cross who made the vacuum cleaner stink. The strange part was that he never smelled in person.
Jannie - it is the voice of experience, next time I'll use a dustpan and brush. Maybe your dog smell came from fur mixing with something else in the bag.
Which of the great laws of life cover Henry?
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/12/25/some-laws-relating-to-speech-are-surprisingly-uplifting/
There is a Henry in the church bell tower, it gets used occasionally, best to put a new bag in first as the old one fills the air with what I think of as the dead insect aroma.
Used dustpan and brush today, then washed dustpan … astounding.
dearieme - we seem to be cursed by Ruckert’s Law at the moment - "There is nothing so small it cannot be blown out of all proportion."
Anon - dead insect aroma sounds okay for a church, a timeless aroma our ancestors would have known, nothing artificial about it.
James - so did I, but I didn't wash it afterwards.
Have you tried it with expensive Waitrose ground coffee? You might be pleasantly surprised....
My vacuuming escapade this morning completely blocked the machine, and I found about a pound of fine dog fur in the tube...
She's an adorable dog, but Black and Decker didn't design their kit with her in mind!
Sam - our nearest Waitrose is about 15 miles away in Derby, but we have some ground coffee which is pretty good so I could try that through Henry.
Scrobs - we used to have that problem with our cocker spaniel, he dropped enormous amounts of hair. The Dyson picked it up okay as I remember.
Amateurs all.
Some friends of ours have one of those robot vacuums that wake up and clean the place whenever the mood takes them.
One night their dog at a bad rat or something, and messed up all over the kitchen in a big way. Then the vacuum cleaner started up and trundled around through the various messes, distributing everything far and wide.
Imagining the resultant disaster scene (not to mention the domestic blame-assigment ensuing) is left as an exercise for the reader.
A true story.
Happy New Year everyone!
Peter - ha ha, sounds like an unexpected problem with a domestic robot. What could possibly go wrong?
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