On Monday, the Fox was standing talking to me as I showed him my
jigsaw, when suddenly his nose started to bleed. He hastily found a tissue.
However, by then a blob of blood had landed on our mid-green carpet. I did my
best to wipe it off with a wet cloth & let it dry.
Come the evening, the carpet had dried but there remained a dark
patch. I thought we were stuck with it.
As I woke on Tuesday morning I remembered I’d bought a book long
ago on how to clean everything. A quick look under “blood” & there was
the answer. For carpets, make a thick paste of an absorbent material such as
cornflour or talc & apply to the area. Once our home care had left on
Tuesday, I put such a paste on, left it to dry, vacuumed it off the next
morning & sure enough the patch is almost the same as the rest. So much so,
if we didn’t know it was there, I don’t think we would even notice it.
When I told my carer what I was intending to do, she looked at
the vintage of the book & commented it wouldn’t work. We inscribe our books
when we buy them with name, date & where purchased. I’d actually bought the
book on our honeymoon nearly 43 years ago. It goes to show some of the old
remedies still work as well, if not better, than some of the new chemicals.
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