What was/is your biggest fear

[lainey lou]

Grass snakes at the lottie, silly I know but I can't help it!!

[Headfry]

chopping a poor little froggy with strimmer or shears or mower!

makes me so sad!

[bluemoon]

Spiders I'm afraid, though I'm getting better when I encounter an outdoor one. If they decide to come into MY house though, I can become quite hysterical. The web in the hair thing I can relate to. One spider last year spun a web every night over the top of the greenhouse door and every morning I walked through it. I could never find the culprit though and after several months of this I would probably have awarded it a medal for its sheer perseverance. I now seem to be developing something of a thing about rats on the lottie too, though I wouldn't run screaming if I saw one I will do all I can to avoid an encounter and have started removing anything which might provide them with a home, which is a shame as it deprives the hedgehogs too.

[moggssue]

Well, having accidentally trapped and rescued two adders from the netting around my plot, I can safely say adders are NOT on the list of my feared creatures .... but strangely, cows are up there hugely! I've always had an irrational fear of black and white ones in particular - no, dont ask!

[SlugLobber]

chopping a poor little froggy with strimmer or shears or mower!

makes me so sad!

I'm the same with worms, HF. Having clay soil means I have to toil the earth more than I'd like and I got some on Saturday. I felt awful.

[di]

Just wasps really!!Me & Andi have differing ways to deal with~Andi does the stay calm etc etc approach,whereas I do the flap about & run approach!!He's been stung several times this and last year!I however~doing everything they say encourages them to sting~haven't been since I was little!There was one at the lottie today just lingering right where I was trying to dig!!,so I moved to the other end& cleaned out the chooks instead!

[janeyo]

Spiders for me too.... I have had 2 lots of different therapy (exposure and hypno)and am STILL terrified, like Rhona I don't wan't to pass this on to my boys. But I am now ok with the weeny little diddy ones so I guess that is progress! HOwevere anythign bigger and I have to get a man in to extermnate. I KNOW I should settle for them being put outside but they come back in so I'm reeeeeally sorry but have to know they are dead. The worst is when OH puts them down the loo and forgets to flush and they are in there all sprawled out and uuurrghhhhhh.

janeyo - shudders just thinking about it and now isn't convinced she will sleep tonight!

[Marthaclematis]

I'm not too bothered about spiders but I HATE slugs... I once put my hand on one and nearly sat on it on a floor cushion in our old flat - they used to come inside (we were in the cool and slightly damp basement, we would wake up to trails all over the floors - every room including the bedroom and once saw a trail up the bedroom curtains... Yep, I HATE them. We don't get them inside this house but they are in the garden and I can't even look at them, I have to call dh to come and get rid. I also have a fear of buzzing insects - wasps make me flap. OMG.. and flying Stag Beetles !! Aaarrgh.. Thing is we've made a woodpile at the bottom of the garden to give them a habitat (and have seen one too on the shed door) - how mad am I?

[lynda66]

usually losing parts of my body over next door hedge

[selfraising]

I hate slugs!! Last year on a summer's evening I took a walk down the garden path and stepped on on bare foot Yuuuuuuuk!

[FionaH]

Ants for me. Not a proper fear of the ants themselves, it's having them in unmentionable places. Yuck!!!

Amazingly I'm not actually scared of spiders, despite various run-ins.

-one ran over my lips and TONGUE when I was a teenager, yawning in bed.
-I put my arm straight into a web full of MILLIONS of hatchlings, retrieving a tennis ball from a conifer tree.
-as a toddler (apparently I was 2), I crawled after a strange cat into our coal scuttle and couldn't get out. I was absolutely covered in webs and spiders and my Mum had the lovely job of getting me out and she HATES spiders!
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ok was just thinking I was getting better with spiders and then I read this! gave me the shivers!

Flap and squeek with wasps, Get hysterical in France with hornets, Rats I hit with a spade if I can get em!

[kirsty b]

Getting very squirmy reading this

It has to be wasps for me, have an irrational fear of being stung. Was trying to get compost out of a bin last year and disturbed a nest that I didn't know was there. The buggers chased me into the greenhouse, and got in, so I belted to my car to hide and one managed to get in there with me. It got very squished. Only got stung once, but damn it hurt!!
Slugs come a very close second, and I have trodden on one in bare feet too, yuck!!

[NOG]

Its got to be the unexploded bomb that is buried under the plot going off.

[LizyDrippin]

I live mid terrace with no fences between me and gardens on either side

My fear is that (very nice man, mid eighties) next door neighbour comes out to tell me that I'm not doing stuff right, and then "fixes" stuff when I'm not looking. Like last year when he trimmed all my onions because I obviously didn't have any bulbs forming and this would help. It was garlic.

I'm waiting for the lecture about the "weeds" I've let grow over the winter. He was looking at the beds last week and then back at the house and shaking his head. It's green manure, but the pigeons got to it before the nets went on, so its a bit patchy

[petal]

putting hands into cat doo doo when hand weeding....