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Post by nightowl on Jun 13, 2007 18:08:34 GMT
They've started. Those garden spiders that turn every trip into the garden into a Ghost Train ride of cobweb tangles! The ones who can completely attach your washing line to the flower border before the washing's dry! They can repair a broken web and be sitting ominously back in the centre of it before you can say " Eeurkkkk! pfuthhhh-phleuff -ppputtt! Blooody spiders!" Actually, I'm grateful to them  I got so many webs/spiders in my face last year, and didn't die, that I got desensitised and it cured my Arachnaphobia!!! I can even do big bath ones now!!  |
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Post by Rosefriend on Jun 13, 2007 18:34:02 GMT
There seem to be a lot of spiders here this year. I nearly fell out of bed the other night as one ran across my arm - the noise I made sure woke my OH up anyway.
I can cope with the small ones, it is the big cellar spiders that I hate - great big bodies and long legs - ugh!!
RF
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Post by andy on Jun 13, 2007 18:48:03 GMT
I moved my koi pond filter on Sunday and when i opened the lid, i was greeted by the biggest wolf spider i've ever seen.....i'm sure it would've taken my arm off  ....but there was also a false widow spider in there....one of the nastier spiders i do believe  |
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Post by nightowl on Jun 13, 2007 19:53:58 GMT
I moved my koi pond filter on Sunday and when i opened the lid, i was greeted by the biggest wolf spider i've ever seen.....i'm sure it would've taken my arm off ....but there was also a false widow spider in there....one of the nastier spiders i do believe Ooo, now you've spooked me!  I didn't know we had nasty ones in Britain. Have to look False Widow Spider up so I know what it looks like. Am I right that wolf spiders are the ones I was talking about? Sort of speckledy grey/brown/blackish, and spin the ginormous webs and then sit in the middle of it? Great!!!  Just when I thought I'd got over my fear.  |
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Post by Barbara on Jun 13, 2007 19:58:56 GMT
last week on tv, some one said, the average person swallows 10 spiders in there life time i think in their sleep ;D |
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Post by Barbara on Jun 13, 2007 19:59:24 GMT
last week on tv, some one said, the average person swallows 10 spiders in there life time i think in their sleep ;D |
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Post by MamIDdau on Jun 13, 2007 20:43:27 GMT
that's a myth barbara!
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Post by owainglyndwr on Jun 13, 2007 21:16:54 GMT
What an 'orrible thread (... no pun intended ...) I finally got around to taking my garden shed down tonight ... my life there were some monsters in there. Was a case of taking a mad swing with the hammer and then running away  |
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Post by jean on Jun 15, 2007 21:24:14 GMT
WB I had forgotten how much you dislike our hairy long legged friends  Hope you have eyes in the back of your head otherwise your children will be getting the better of you yet again ;D Now Slugs are an entirely different matter - cats had brought one in this morning - yuk  |
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Post by owainglyndwr on Jun 15, 2007 22:20:23 GMT
WB I had forgotten how much you dislike our hairy long legged friends Hope you have eyes in the back of your head otherwise your children will be getting the better of you yet again ;D Now Slugs are an entirely different matter - cats had brought one in this morning - yuk  <Can'tFind AMadWomanSmiley> Dislike ... Try Loathe, Detest, Abhor ... or in Welsh nghasáu @ the kids' bit. They know if they try that again, they are grounded until the next Century. ;D RE: Slugs. I can't say I'm a big fan of touching them ... uck |
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Post by Shrubrose on Jun 16, 2007 18:26:56 GMT
We have numerous spiders in the garden. I wish I could feel comfortable around them as I'm sure they're fascinating creatures. But they give me goosbumps. Everytime I plunge my hand into the borders to pick out a weed I pray that there isn't a spider lurking. There probably is though.
When I was but a wee thing. I was taking a walk up on the moors with the latest flame. It was a hot day, and we'd walked for hours. I lay down to snooze. I felt 'tickles' on my arms but thought it was the heather blowing about in the wind. 'Latest' said, when I later came to, that he'd watched long legged spiders walk over my arm. He didn't disturb me because he thought I'd be hysterical. I'm so glad he didn't. He was so right ........I would have gone absolutely 'ape'.
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Post by jean on Jun 16, 2007 19:09:23 GMT
A good few years ago I opened the shed door and a huge spider which must have been balancing there landed on my neck - I had the screaming "abdabs" big time. OH caught it and it filled the bottom of a pint pot and trying to show me that there was nothing to be frightened of picked it up in his hand and got bitten can't say I like them, but can tolerate them as long as they don't make me jump and I always pull my collar up around my neck when I go in the shed. |
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Post by Shrubrose on Jun 24, 2007 8:09:14 GMT
oooooh jlottie I'd have been screaming with you. I just dont like them. Dont know where I get this from as my mum's been a gardener all her life and isn't at all 'fazed' by them, so I didn't learn it from her.
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Post by andy on Jun 24, 2007 8:28:43 GMT
They are pretty incredible beasts and of course....one of the gardeners friends !!! Can't say i'm that happy to pick them up if they're too big but i'd never hurt one. Funny how things like this frighten us....my brother in law is a big geordie policeman....as tough as they come, but is absolutely terrified by frogs....and i've just put a pond in for him |
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Post by Shrubrose on Jun 24, 2007 10:58:15 GMT
oh Andy, he's going to be scared lots. Did you warn him? Shrub. |
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I got so many webs/spiders in my face last year, and didn't die, that I got desensitised and it cured my Arachnaphobia!!! I can even do big bath ones now!! 
....but there was also a false widow spider in there....one of the nastier spiders i do believe 
Just when I thought I'd got over my fear. 
Hope you have eyes in the back of your head otherwise your children will be getting the better of you yet again ;D
