Static

Sparks in the dark.

Funny old weather we were having.  Every time F touched me she sparked me.  She accused me of sparking her.  What was that all about?

It certainly made her jump.

After my dust bath last week she had to rub and rub to get the dust out of my fur.  That makes sparking but it might have been the last lot of sparking we did.  However in the days prior to that we seemed to spark every time we made contact.

F accused my stripy friend of being the culprit (he's the only synthetic 'thing' around here and I sleep on him a lot), but I've has Stripy Friend for years and we've never created electricity between us before.

F's clothes are cotton, linen or wool (she said she had enough of sparky clothes and sticky-uppy hair when she was a kid; 'kid'  the last time anyone made her wear a petticoat, and they were always made of nylon.  As an aside ...author Philip Pullman cleverly called that fabric 'coal silk'.)

My put it down to those wooly jumpers she wears.  They always rub my fur up the wrong way.

In the end we blamed the dust in the air.  It must be charged.  There is dust everywhere and on everything at the moment.