General Chat

Now if you met one of our giant centipedes or giant weta you might have reason to feel uneasy, although the weta is actually rather gentle, I understand. Some people let them crawl on their face. But the centipede can give a nasty bite and make your whole arm numb for hours. :-)

What a bunch of wimps!!! :-D :-D

Morning Everyone

Good New, Good News

I have now got rid of my "big boy".
Yesterday afternoon, sat at the kitchen table, I put my arm behind me to pick up a pile of crocheting, and happened to turn around. There he was, and I nearly put me hand on him. Yeeks, Yeeks.
Shouted for the OH, and suitably equiped with a small board and a container, he removed him to outside in the garden..
The thought of touching him still makes me cringe.

Julia in Derbyshire

Just had to put this link on here from todays paper :-D :-D :-D


http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/cartoons/mandy/mandy---13th-september-2012-1321426

:-D :-D@ Mr Mau.

Oh thanks Sue feel a tad easier :-) beginning to think they like white :-S...and wish those small house spiders hadn't been so darn sexy ;-)

Just told OH about your remark Island and he says 'ah they must be the brown pidgeon spider found at the coast' hahaha

Mau :-D

Mau,
According to the Natural Museum in Leeds they are spiders that came over from foreign climes years ago on ships and bred with the house spider thats why there are very few small spiders around.
These hybrids come in between August and September to breed that is the reason you are seeing so many.

I hate the bleddy things so mine get massacred as I am the only one in the flat.

These hybrids don't bite so no need to worry.

Hope you don't see many more.

Sue

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That's what I was frightened of Island I felt tickly in bed all night :-S

I've been very brave and peeped on tinternet pages to identify spiders.....first one I saw can bite!! argh wish I hadn't looked :-0 :-(

They might tickle your fancy :-D :-D

Thanks for the offer Mau but you know they have homing instincts? :-0 :-D

yes of course Ann they are animals after all you know....might savage me face orf :-| :-D

spiders are OK - don't bother me at all - I mean what d'you think they are going to do to you FGS? drag you off and savage you? :-D

Joy "come on down"....for now ;-) x

All clear for now *fingers crossed*......had a very restless night's sleep :-(....

Hybrids Sue is that what you call them? lol I have another name ;-) I have never seen any spiders like the 'wooden one' which was the size of a Swan Vestas matchbox ,(even the one I saw in Australia) this looked almost like an ornament.....50? 50? in one night omg I feel faint. :-0

My OH gets up for the loo during the night Marilyn,I keep telling him to wear slippers,but there again the spiders are usually on the walls,and they look even more fearsome as the walls are white!

I'll ask Oh to wrap 'em up and post them to you Island...they're ALL yours;-)
.....and that's why I get OH to catch them Jude for fear they escape:-0

I'm calling them the Sumo team Julia but it's my lovely husband who deserves a gold medal :-D as i honestly don't think I could go to bed with them lurking :-(

'we also suck in quite a few spiders during the course of our lives'..........well i've read that too Wend and I DON'T believe it!! ;-) it's a myth...now if the critters were moths I would be safe....wouldn't I? :-S

I'll be looking at the ceilings again tonight,and that doesn't help my balance problems.....

Wobbly Mau xx :-D

thank you puts on theigh boots ;-)

Course you can Joy



have you got some waders ? :-D

CAN i come down off the chair yet :-D

It's a ploy by spider lovers Wend, garden spiders love to build webs near them :-D

Apparently when we're lying in bed asleep at night and sucking in the curtains, we also suck in quite a few spiders during the course of our lives :-D

If spiders don't like conkers, why are there so many spider-webs in my Horse Chesnut tree? :-S

Oh Mau, I've got one, also.
Saturday afternoon, got a piece of work out my craft bag, in the kitchen, and out he flirted. He crawled up the kitchen wall and clung on to the ceiling. He had vanished after that, but last night he re-appeared on the kitchen ceiling, but has disappeared again now.
I call him he, because he can't be a female with those hips. I think the name Rastas would suit him well, if you know what I mean LOLOL

Julia in Derbyshire

We got lots of littlies in the bathroom, which are sort of fascinating...lol BUT ginormouse ones in the bedroom, you can keep em !!!!
A few years agao sister caught a ginormouse one, put a glass over it and slid card under, as she stood up the card slipped and BIG G ran up her arm.....god how awful...shudders at thought:(((

jude