AN VERY BEAUTIFUL OSTRICH FEATHER DUSTER..

She went today to have her hair cut and coloured by a new hairdresser and very successful it was too!

The price was amazing, because a. she is ancient and b. it was a weekday, so the cost was much less than she used to pay Chris @ Smile and even less than she used to pay Irena @ Luigi's.

Irena had started to get 'very' grand with her prices, it is time to look for another hairdresser, she thought and seeing a very smartly coiffed woman come out of a local hairdressers, she asked her "how much do they charge?"

The nice woman immediately spilt the beans and recommended Anita for both cut and colour. We like it when people are generous with information, it is always a surprise when people do not share stuff like this.

Anyway, there she was, wearing a short bob in a pretty colour that looks like a polished conker! (fruit from a Horse Chestnut tree).. 

Off she went to try and sort out a bank who have sent stuff which has not arrived, there is a nasty 
neighbour upstairs and when he is in residence, important mail always goes missing. 

He is a disagreeable man, the other occupants of the house all loathe him, he is rude, unhelpful, always late paying his service charges for the building maintenance and vetoes anything to do with keeping the house in good shape. Sigh.

She thought of going on to Hammersmith to try and find something but the sky was getting darker by the minute and it was beginning to be chilly.

So she caught a bus and got off opposite Harrods. For parcels, on-line orders etc, the sort that nasty neighbour would make disappear, she has a postal box at Mail Box Etc. She walked into the shop and yes, there was a package for her, a long tube!

(Sadly this bank will not send 'important' stuff there, it has, they say, to go to the account holder's home address.. what tosh, her other bank sends this sort of stuff to her local branch and upon showing them identification they hand it over).

I wonder what this could be, she thought and then remembered, that a couple of weeks ago she had cheekily sent an email to a company telling them "Ostriches are bred and you eat bread".

Andrew responded to this email saying thank you for picking up the error and could he have her address as he wanted to send her one in the way of a "thank you" present.

She walked home, luckily she had an umbrella with her as the sky was releasing bath loads of rain. The expression 'bucketing down with rain' would not signify the correct amount of water.

The packaging was very secure! It took a strong serrated knife to open the tube and get the duster out.

And it is a proper duster too, made out of the most exquisite Ostrich feathers. They're the Rolls Royce of dusters as tiny barbs on the feathers collect the minutest particles of dust.

Their eggs and flesh are delicious, their skins are used and, of course, so are the feathers, not one piece of these animals are wasted.

How very kind of Andrew to send her one. The least we can do is tell you about them, isn't it? So here, with no-more-ado, is who they are!

Embassy Feather Dusters are on-line @               www.embassyfeatherdusters.com

And as someone was generous enough to give her the new hairdresser, here are their details as well!

Anita, has a family, so does not work every day.

Hair Perfect, 14 Jerdan Place, London SW6.

Telephone: 020 7386 3999.

That is all from me today folks.. we are off to start cooking an early supper, we got up hideously early this morning, who knows why!

If it is like this tomorrow, cold, dull and wet, then that feather duster is going to see some action! 

GeeGee Parrot.

March 26th, 2014.