Re: cats & spiders (don't read, !)

[Guest guest]

Not sure if 's back online yet, but....

A few nights ago I went to the loo in the middle of the night. Put

light on &

there was this *enormous* spider on the wall inches away from the

toilet seat.

It had thick hairy legs with a span wider than my palm.

Now I'm not too bad with small spiders, just trap them in a cup and

chuck them

out the window, but this looked like something out of Indiana .

Just

couldn't bring myself to sit right next to it so went and woke poor

old DH and

got him to trap it. As he approached with a beaker, it scuttled along

the wall

for a few feet. Aaarrghhh. It only just fit in the beaker!

Keeping the bathroom window tight closed at night from now on.

Lesley Moor

Pete & Lesley Reader wrote:

> I would pay anything, though for a

> cat which gobbled up all the spiders that come into my house!!!!!!

[Guest guest]

> there was this *enormous* spider on the wall inches away from the

> toilet seat.

> It had thick hairy legs with a span wider than my palm.

We have had about 5 of these in the last 2 weeks - they only just fit under

a pint glass! I'm getting to be a nervous wreck. Yesterday one ran across

the kitchen work surface as I was preparing dinner. I dropped the knife and

jumped about 2 feet saying " F*****ing Hell* and I think my heart rate took a

couple of hours to come back to normal. I *hate* spiders.

Have to go to a committee meeting now.

Helen

[Guest guest]

And you're wondering why your BP is up??????? :-))

Lesley

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Helen said....We have had about 5 of these in the last 2 weeks - they only

just fit under a pint glass! I'm getting to be a nervous wreck. Yesterday

one ran across the kitchen work surface as I was preparing dinner. I dropped

the knife and jumped about 2 feet saying " F*****ing Hell* and I think my

heart rate took a couple of hours to come back to normal. I *hate* spiders.

[Guest guest]

Omigod!

Lesley..........faint!

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Lesley M said...

A few nights ago I went to the loo in the middle of the night. Put

light on &

there was this *enormous* spider on the wall inches away from the

toilet seat.

[Guest guest]

Why are they getting so big? is it global warming, fall out from Chernobyl

working its way through, GM or what?

Lesley the Arachnophobe.

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said......My dh just had to remove the biggest spider we've ever seen

from dd room .

No joke when I say he had to use a pyrex bowl to catch it!

[Guest guest]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 21:54:53 +0100, " Pete & Lesley Reader "

wrote:

>Why are they getting so big? is it global warming, fall out from Chernobyl

>working its way through, GM or what?

Don't know, but there's a GINORMOUS hairy sod (no, not SO!) sitting

not two feet from me right now, eyeballing me. We have a few big

spiders in the house at the moment. They have a fondness for

climbing into the shoes that we keep under a table by the door, then

when you put them on... ARRRGHHHH ! Not joking. One was in

's little trainer the other day.

Anyway, this one here seems to be sitting in a small pile of dead

remnants of other bugglies. Yik. Sorry. :-)

--

Clare Lusher.

SAHM to Ruairí (24.10.99).

www.yum.org/clare

" The newborn baby will have only three demands. They are warmth in

the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the

knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three. "

- Dr. Grantly Dick-Read

[Guest guest]

And you're calmly sitting there typing?????????????????????????

Lesley

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Clare said....Don't know, but there's a GINORMOUS hairy sod (no, not SO!)

sitting not two feet from me right now, eyeballing me.

[Guest guest]

Helen Bates wrote:

> Yesterday one ran across

> the kitchen work surface as I was preparing dinner. I dropped the knife and

> jumped about 2 feet saying " F*****ing Hell* and I think my heart rate took a

> couple of hours to come back to normal. I *hate* spiders.

Watch that adrenaline, Helen, you might go into labour!

Lesley M

[Guest guest]

>Helen Bates wrote:

>

>> Yesterday one ran across

>> the kitchen work surface as I was preparing dinner. I dropped the knife

and

>> jumped about 2 feet saying " F*****ing Hell* and I think my heart rate

took a

>> couple of hours to come back to normal. I *hate* spiders.

>

>Watch that adrenaline, Helen, you might go into labour!

>

>Lesley M

doesn't adrenaline inhabit labour? (or is that just once its got going?)

Angi

[Guest guest]

> doesn't adrenaline inhabit labour? (or is that just once its got going?)

That's what I thought. I saw my homoeopath friend yesterday and she

prescribed me the " homoeopathic equivalent of valium " to stop me worrying

myself into a high bp, so next time I see a spider maybe I won't care!

Helen

[Guest guest]

Who jinxed me??? C'mon own up ! LOL

My dh just had to remove the biggest spider we've ever seen from dd room .

No joke when I say he had to use a pyrex bowl to catch it!

Scary story 'bout spiders! Bear in mind that I am *really terrified* of the

little critters (so much so I can't speak for hours when confronted by one.

When I was pregnant with dd I was packing to go into the hospital (three

days before due date) when one about the size of your fist fell from the

ceiling, onto my head and crawled into the bag! When my sd (sperm donor)

came into the room it had already crawled off - I couldn't speak but he

guessed what had happened and I sat on our hall floor with my dad (who has

no sympathy for me normally)trying desperately to calm me down whilst my sd

took our bedroom apart stick by stick. It fell on me at 7.30 he found it in

the crack of the door at 11.30!

Shivers down my spine just recalling it. Fortunately I didn't really get to

see the size of the one tonight - heard the scream from dd saw the tears -

took a quick glance to tell dh what sort of container to bring up!!