Two Left Minder Feet

As anyone who has seen Mary Poppins will know, chimney sweeping can be very dirty work. But as we've said in our previous posts, Blue Bear is a very careful and tidy worker. He put dust sheets all over the furniture and then, just to make sure, he taped polythene across the fire place, leaving only a slit for his brush and rods.


From his supervisor's vantage point on the mantelpiece, Chelmer looked for any gaps where any soot might escape!

All these precautions were sucessful, and after the sweeping was completed all we we were left with was a pile of soot in the bottom of the fireplace.


Monkey then leapt into action with his dustpan and brush and quickly filled a bucket with all the soot. All that was left was to tidy everything away and re-light the fire, but then DISASTER struck, a clumsy minder tripped over the bucket and the soot went everywhere!


Chelmer swiftly dived into action wielding the vacuum cleaner hose and, in a short time, you wouldn't have known that the accident had ever taken place.


We wasted no time clearing away the equipment and re-lighting the fire before settling down will a well-earned reward, a glass of Wherry.

Love Chelmer, Blue Bear and Monkey xxx