I’ve just started subscribing to the beautiful Cabinet magazine on the advice of my pals from Arika. Issue 35 is titled Dust, and here’s a fine extract that proves my money has been well spent: Translated international variants of the term ‘dust bunnies’.

• English: dust bunnies
• Finnish: wool dog (villakoira)
• French: sheep (mouton)
• German: wool mouse (wollmaus)
• Italian: dust cat (gatto di polvere)
• Norweigan: student apartment bunny (hybelkanin)
• Swedish: dust rat (dammråtta)