General Chat

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

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

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

They might tickle your fancy :-D :-D

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

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 :-(

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

:-D :-D

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

:-D :-D@ Mr Mau.

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

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

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

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. :-)

Not that I have been bitten by one, but Ruud Kleinpaste, the bug man has. He lets wetas crawl over his face and even into his mouth (ugh). :-|

Morning Julia and Huia

Julia, I hate to say this but a House Spider will not stay in the garden :-D

Morning Island. Yes but how do you know he was a House Spider to begin with.

Anyway, it is very nice in my garden, so he may prefer it. LOLOL

Julia in Derbyshire

PS. Anyway, if he is feeling"nesh" outside, I'll have to crochet him a coat of many legs.

Because he was in the house Julia :-D

Yes Island, he was in the house, but he could have come in from the garden LOLOL

Julia in Derbyshire

Julia, he might want to come back in. If he does, it will be impossible to keep him out.

You need to build him a little spider house, inside your house, so that he has somewhere to stay and won't get in your way.

Does anyone know how to built a spider house?

Or there any spider house kits out there?

That's a good idea :-D - as long as you give the spider the address. :-S

It isn't going to stay home and starve LOL

Huia the Weta is a giant cricket/grasshopper type of insect I wouldn't be frightened of one of those.
It's the huge thick legged spiders I'm scared of :-|

How's the coat of many legs coming along Julia? and will it have a hood ;-)

All clear last night.... phew...just a teency weency one on the kitchen floor.I said good night and let him be :-D

Thinking of inviting Spiderman to stay ;-) :-D

Mau