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?!

@Comedycook

Do you have a child who plays football on astroturf? My ds does and I always find little pieces of it around the house!

Oh my god, that bloody stuff!!

It does my head in, I'm always cleaning it up.

@LuluBlakey1 and @IncessantNameChanger my spider also poos out blood. Or at least, the tiny black specks turn red if they get wet. Never seen anything like it before. Glad it’s not just me tho! I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what the tiny specks of blood were until I looked up and saw the egg case.

Anyway, hope your trap has worked, OP.

I too thought it was going to be woodworm but now I just don’t know…

Is that coving - a possible source? Insect under it.
Or if that is a door jamb on the left? the draft from down the side of the door could maybe blow some dust/ bits into the room from the door edge/jamb.

The ceiling light fitting is near the wall and above and slightly to the right of the door. I presume that this is the same door that's next to the bedside cabinet. It looks fairly likely that the small gap next to the cable is where the grit is coming from.

Years ago my mum had bits of black “grit” falling through the cracks round the loft hatch and I was sent to investigate. As I opened the loft hatch I was covered in a shower of thousands of dead wasps. Was like something from I’m A Celebrity.

“Oh that’s what happened to the wasps” said my mum. Who chooses that point to tell me she’d had a wasps nest in the loft and a man had come round some weeks previously to fumigate them. Didn’t think to warn me.

How bizarre! I thought it was going to be some sort of woodworm/creature in the cabinet but clearly not if it's on the paper too. Most odd.

i realise that this is totally irrelevant, but your children look awesome. They appear to be beautiful, fun and slightly random in a totally brilliant way.

We had similar gritty bits on the floor of our pantry. I think it's spider poo. I hoover it up, together with any webs. I also evict any spiders.

I don't mind the odd spider, but won't be housing any nests of eggs!!

Intriguing. I'm just here for today's updates, with nothing useful to add.

Wake up op!!!

Surely spiders can’t poo that much?

I am going to spend all morning worrying about a stranger's bedside table now...

Put some masking tape over any gaps around the light fitting, and periodically peel off the tape and check it for grit. Then you'll either know exactly where it's coming from or rule it out as a source

It might be any kind of insect but it would freak me out. I love your dog, looks exactly like one of mine!

DI Brighton reporting for duty.

Ima grab us some fresh cawfee and donuts from the store, chief

OP, I can’t believe that in the opening post you said this would be boring! I’m riveted!

It's light now, 'Wakey, Wakey!' Come on OP, get the ladder out.

Don’t hoover at each quarter turn of unscrewing the ceiling rose - that would vacuum up all the evidence!! Tights over head are a good idea, though.

@immersivereader

Your son looks like someone famous when they were young but I can't place him.

Adrian Brody?

Invested with absolutely nothing of value to offer

I reckon the Christmas Tree and pickled onion boy are playing tricks on you. They look like they might be tricksters!

This is my favourite thread ever! It’s got it all - a mystery, a cute dog, charmingly quirky kids, pickled onions, spiders that poo blood...kudos OP!

I’m just here to say that a plastic light fixture is not a ceiling rose snd that spiders technically don’t have ‘blood’. Am feeling unnecessarily upset about the ceiling rose post for some bizarre reason. Misses whole point of thread …I do hope you find the culprit though.

This needs a big finish. OP just make up something if needed. A zombie blood pooping spider hiding in the light rose will keep me from sleeping though so can you make it more like "Christmas elfs making toys"

Hopeful