Why am I tooting about hoovering. Why did nobody stop me. I’ll stop me now. Before I say anything about that other setting for people who hoover their ears.

The privilege of living in a liveable, bikeable city. I popped the broken hoover telescope into my bike basket and pedalled to the repair café and they let me use the Grown-up Workbench in the back, well, under careful supervision, let’s be honest, they did the drilling through metal bit, but we patched it up and the hoover continues to work as it enters its third decade.

I admire Miele for designing heavy-use products that last 20 years and more. And for which you can always still get spare parts. The only time it wobbled in two decades was a few years ago when a join in the telescopey bit broke. Without warning, it would retract into itself, suddenly becoming cartoonishly shorter as you were mid-hoover.

@FreakyFwoof I've decided not to be embarrassed. I'm just posting my way through it.

@SuneAuken @madsenandersc I've noticed that too. A deluge of negative, nitpicking, moaning, concern trolling, unconstructive replies to every single EU post. I respect the fact that they are here in the Fediverse at all, unlike most official institutions, and that they are trying to do positive things.

@Sarah111well That struck me too. It chimes well with installations like this too, trying to raise awareness about the environmental damage we and our capitalist society are doing to the oceans.

Giant octopus tentacles have been waving from various landmarks around the city during Aarhus Festuge (festival week), trying to attract our attention to the damage that humans have done to the oceans and to marine life.

'Octopus Attack' by artists Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrella.

#Aarhus
#ClimateDiary

#SilentSunday

@HenkvanderEijk Perhaps

@davidtheeviloverlord @cassana

@RolloTreadway @mothninja His sideburns

@icecolbeveridge Whirlygig is a great word. I've only known it in the sense of a carousel, like a fairground attraction, which isn't called for much in general conversation. I love the idea of it being a regular household word. And I can't believe the rest of us have been hanging out the washing on a boring old 'rotary line' when we could've been saying 'whirlygig' all along.

@davidtheeviloverlord @cassana There's a fairytale in that, one of the traditional ones, dark with a macabre ending.

@cassana Yes! I love waterymill. I shall be using that too.

#Windymill #Waterymill

@davidtheeviloverlord @sindarina Yes. Especially now since generative AI has ruined Internet searches so it's hard to quickly find correct information and facts that you can trust are reliable.

@urlyman It was a lucky typo - I am here for #windymill too.

@the_roamer Lady Joan Mastodon and me and you, so. We'll keep the word windymill alive.

#Windymill

@sindarina @davidtheeviloverlord I love that this is how you immediately knew such specific on-sight details about a traditional windmill. I also love that this is The Knowledge. It feels very Fediversey. Lots of people here have The Knowledge about something very niche and help out and share it when the need arises.

@davidtheeviloverlord @sindarina Such an oversight in the curriculum. I bet there's #Windymillology corner in the Fediverse. I shall seek it out to learn more.

#WIndymill

@HollieK72 @mothninja Such a lovely thought!

@mothninja I did not know that - I am pleased to meet Windy Miller. Thanks!