So far so good.
I'm single and don't do a great deal of housekeeping but I think I keep a relatively clean house. I mean I'm happy to eat anything that has fallen on the kitchen floor but you might find a bit of dust if you went behind the tv set. That sort of thing.
When I go away to Florida for the winter, I close the living room and bedroom curtains. I'm not quite sure why, but I do. And 6 months later when I open them up again, the living room window ledge is pretty much spotlessly clean (with maybe the odd dead fly or wasp requiring attention) but the upstairs bedroom window ledges are a different matter.
They are always covered in......stuff. I can't be any more precise as that's the point. I donno what this stuff is. It's almost dust like but with much larger grains. It could be dust that has fallen on dust over and over like a snowball rolling down a hill and thus grown into very large.....ahhh dust.
But in my heart of hearts I just know it's poop. Droppings if you like. But from what creature ?
Having ruled out very small sheep due to the fact that they'd never make it up the steep stairs, I'm left with potential culprits like spiders and flies. But I've never seen a fly in my bedroom and only rarely has a spider dropped in on me while I've been curled up in bed with James Patterson so why would they suddenly descend on my bedroom window ledge in such numbers to generate that amount of poop ?
Maybe as I move out for 6 months, they move in but if so, where the hell are they ? There are no bodies, no signs of ANY creature at all - just black soot or dust or droppings all along the ledge.
Before I send samples off to the UK version of CSI, I was wondering if anyone out there in blogland could suggest what my little black stuff might be ?
Until I find out, I'll be sleeping with one eye open, just in case there is a bug party taking place on my window ledge every night and I'm not invited.
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I still say it's mold.
I did think I heard very quiet high-pitched baa-ing sounds once or twice, and then of course there were the tiny ropes all the way up your stairs. I think you have to face it: it WAS the flock of very small sheep. I expect they slipped out when you came back.
It is. We bring them with us when we move in to live rent-free while you're away. Didn't I tell you?
Bat droppings?
You know what they do in all the Good Guy/Bad Guy shows? Someone dips a finger in the 'dust' and licks it. They can usually instantly identify it.
Let us know how you get on with that, won't you?
Well they say we all consume an average 10 spiders in our sleep over a lifetime!
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