my pa has a little steam cleaner that looks exactly like an aardvark, sitting on its haunches, nose poised and with glassy eyes and a little mouth. in his enthusiasm to use it on everything he decides that robert dudley and bear are full of germs and need to be steam cleaned. i was most doubtful. a jet of steam at 180degrees celsius is enough to disintegrate a little bear who is in essence beans and cotton. i let him try it out on my precious zabutons first. they didn't seem the worse for wear, so we called it a sauna and let the bears under the nozzle. they seemed to enjoy it very much, so su-lin brought fitzie and jude to be steamed too. i think fitzie wants to blog about his experience, so we'll leave that to him shall we.? .