Charlottes Web

[rogesse]

This morning I became mummy to millions - well a few hundred.

Being basically lazy I like to pot stuff on in the evening, half watching TV (garden channel is fav.). Last night I left an old pot on the coffee table and came down this morning to a web stretching from the pot to the fireplace smothered in pinhead size baby spiders! I scooped then all up and put them outside - a couple of hours later there was another flush!

I thought it was enchanting - my great big 6 ft+ dollop of a son ran screaming from the room. He doesn't like spiders even if you can barely see then apparently - good job he doesn't know about the huge hairy hunter OH saw in the bathroom this morning..........

[janeyo]

I realised it must have been ages since I dusted as there were several colonies of mini mini mini ones residing in the plant on the windowsill downstairs, the bathroom windowsill between the toothbrush holder and the wall, the bedroom windowsill between the picture frame and the jewel box... I really need to dust more!

[kirsty b]

That is so cool.
Pickle has read the book and seen the film, and when I was dismantling a greenhouse, she found an egg sac. It was duly brought home and placed gently on a stick in a jam jar so she could see the babies when they hatched.
The jar was put in a quiet spot in the garden so they could get out once she had seen them.

[Victoria26]

I'd have been half a mile away - in a field - with no sign of slowing down!

Spiders kill me!!! OMG!!!

[coreopsis]

I went to the sitting room last night to place some trays on the window sill.There were some cobwebs so I thought"I'll give it a wipe".So I did with the kitchen towel.2 mins later felt a pinch on my wrist,spider(fully grown adult)made it to my sleeve and bit me.Needless to say,he finished his life squashed on the kitchen floor.I don't mind spiders outside but inside is another story-I'm just fed up with cob webs everywhere.Neverending battle.

[jackie j]

My eldest son who is over 6ft tall will also run a mile from spiders !!!! he used to shout for his younger brother to get rid of them only he wanted to keep them as pets !!! not in my house thank you.

[janeyo]

It was only the fact here that there had to be seen under a microscope that didn't have me running screaming away in true girlie stylee. I have had 2 lots of therapy for spiders and am not cured yet! Anything bigger than my thumb nail a nd I have to get OH, the cat, the neighbour (anyone passing will do) to get them. Wussy me.
I saw one on 'Lewis' the other night, even though I was hiding under a cushion, I still managed to sneak a peak at the wrong time and didn't sleep a wink!

I am getting better at not being so scared in the garden and greenhouse when I see them. I even have told OH to leave them there - definitely progress for me!

[rogesse]

All the little spiders have gone now but the monster in the bathroom still remains - we've decided to call him Boris

On the flip side, I simpathise - I loathe cockroaches and have been known to stand on a chair and scream very loadly!

[Headfry]

Rogesse - I always call my bathroom spiders 'Boris' too
I love spiders

[Hilary B]

I've never been scared to screaming by a tiny living creature (come to think of it, being scared doesn't get me that way). I could never deliberately kill a spider (might be different if it was the sort they have in Australia, those ones are dangerous) although I do prefer to avoid touching the big ones. I will if I have to, like the time it was the only way to avoid 6 little girls (temporarily in my charge) from screaming in church!
Most of the big spiders you see are female.......

[Glutton4...]

I don't mind spiders at all - it's walking through unseen cobwebs that send me gaga