Something strange is happening in my bedroom and I can’t work out why!

[Wendyer]

I’m sorry, it’s not very exciting but I just don’t understand it.

I have a bedside cabinet, and about 6 weeks ago I noticed that there was some gritty rubbley type stuff on it. I wiped it away but later on there was more there. I thought I mustn’t have cleared it up properly so did it again, more thoroughly.

And basically, ever since, there’s nearly always this gritty stuff there! I can’t imagine where it’s coming from - there’s nothing above the cabinet except the ceiling and a hanging light but they don’t seem to be the source. I never hear it dropping onto the cabinet, or see it dropping, it’s just there!

Where is it coming from?!

The lamp is trying to tell you something

Unscrew your light.

At least read the OP's posts people!

@luluBlakey1
I love that you let her be to look after her little brood, that's made my day x

[quote Buggersticks]@luluBlakey1
I love that you let her be to look after her little brood, that's made my day x[/quote]
And we have checked tonight and she does have an actual web- currently has caught 3 small flies. So she has a food supply too and she is near the sink if she fancies a drink

@FiddlefigOnTheRoof

I had this. The heat of the bulb was disintegrating the plastic collar of the lamp that sits around the bulb, and it crumbled around the desk on a daily basis.

I suggested this a couple of times but OP doesn’t seem to have looked into it yet.

@Nasturs

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/636548-A-plate-has-fallen-down-the-back-of-the-loo

Very good thread

THANK YOU!

@Echinops

What's the base of the white lamp made of? I had a bathroom grit mystery and it was the weighted base of the loo roll holder degrading, it was like a lump of rubbishy concrete held in with tape

This happened to me with a sticky tape dispenser! Could not work out where the grit was coming from in the drawer and it turned out to be the bottom of the tape dispenser degrading, hidden by a flimsy layer of felt. Weird.

Any update

@SoupDragon

Put the base of the lamp in something like a freezer bag.

GENIUS

It’s definitely the lamp base I’m sad to say :(. I took it downstairs last night and no new grit on the cabinet this morning. I banged it on the kitchen worktop and lots of stuff came out. I’ve sellotaped it up now so no more leakage.

at least you have found the cause

That's so disappointing! I was sure it was something far more exciting than that 😜

Team base grit FTW!

But HOW does the grit get all over the cabinet when no one is moving the lamp and presumably the surface is flat???

Rats in the attic...

It is a bit of an anti-climax but at least the mystery is solved. Who would have thought.

@Choux

But HOW does the grit get all over the cabinet when no one is moving the lamp and presumably the surface is flat???

I'm with you. I totally believe that OP is telling the truth but I just don't understand the science of how the grit sprays all over the table and not just collecting in a little pile by the lamp base. If someone more knowledgable than I could explain the physics I'd be grateful.

Good question. How does it get everywhere? I think there's more to the story...

I think we are all collectively not ready for this to be the end 😀

Yes it's a weird one how it spread about.

Maybe it's alien sentient grit? It makes it way up the lamp stand into the bulb and throws itself out. This is why it's scattered about the table.

The reason is the alien race it's from wish to communicate with the human race and learn from us. Stuff like what crosses and crabs are (hence the patterns a few wiser posters spotted).

OP has an open-mouthed snoring technique she has failed to mention so far, so ---- side table shoogles on the loud, noisy inhale, spilling the grit, which is spread about by the long and gusty exhale.

@LuluBlakey1

Spider poo? We have a small spider living on the ceiling above our kitchen window. She has laid a small sack of eggs and is guarding them. She poops every night and it falls down onto the same spot on the window sill, one dot of gritty poo the size of a small pin head that I clean up with kitchen roll and antibacterial spray every morning. I am fascinated by her. Not sure how long the eggs take to hatch but it has been a couple of months so I think they might not now.

This is amazing! If they do hatch, please keep us updated

@Wendyer
This is best MN thread I've read in a very long time! The OP and ALL the PP have entertained with the such comedic output!
OP, are you quite sure you've found the source of the grit? Please go check around your whole house and report back as to whether anymore of your lamp bases could be a source so that this thread can continue...maybe you could scope out some kind of infestation in your Christmas tree ( the actual tree, not your lovely DD)

@AlCalavicci

Thought you might enjoy this thread😂