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Last week, when we were stuck without a car, my friend kindly added me onto her car insurance so I could borrow her car, as I needed to pick up a lot of things that just weren’t feasible on a bicycle. But she did warn me that her car was very dirty inside – this was enthusiastically corroborated by her daughter even though she had undoubtedly contributed much to the general dirtiness! Anyway I borrowed the car and brought the stuff home, and then I asked Little One if she would help me to vacuum it as a ‘thank you’. This she agreed to do, and carefully sucked up dirt from under the mats, down the sides of the seats etc. But when we moved the front seats to reveal dropped sweet wrappers, sticky ice-lolly packaging and such like she didn’t want to pick it up, and she was particularly disgusted when she found a single forgotten dirty sock, all scrunched up and hard. She didn’t want to touch it but, always inventive, she also found a pencil and a pen on the floor of the car and used them like chopsticks to unravel the crusty bundle. How I laughed! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2025.