now then, you know someone is going to post a picture of spider in here now don't you?
and this time, it wont be me
lp
when i lived at home as a teen we had a ginormous one that lived in a hole on our bathroom wall...it lived there fo aaaages.......i called it Boris.
funny how they linger round the same home....kind of like making it their own house.
I've always wondered why they prefer bathrooms lol
I have got two on my landing, one in the bedroom and one in the hallway. I don't mind them being there as long as they stay there! Last night I was cuddled up with my cat on the floor in front of the fire and a huge one went running across the living room floor.. Daisycat just watched it and then went back to sleep..
I managed to catch it, using a glass and a piece of card, and put it outside.. but I expect it will come back... Quite spooky this thread popped up just after it happened!
I have found, since I am in the garden more, I am not so scared of creepy crawlies.. I can pick worms up, and move snails, and slugs don't bother me... Until I took up gardening they did!
This is quite spooky! I went into my downstairs toilet about half hour ago and ended up running very quickly back out screaming.... my son asked what was up and i said to him go look :shock: He came back saying that was the biggest spider he had seen for a while sat at the top of the wall and not even he will attempt to get rid of it! We have thought about the hoover and i said that if it falls then he will be searching for it whilst i go out and dismissed that idea.. well, looks like hubby will have to remove it when he gets in!
Well done DG!
I did a similar thing a few years ago- held a bird eating spider despite being dreadfully arachnaphobic. The only thing is, I knew I'd be able to hold it- but I still won't go near a house spider!
Yesterday, I got griefed into venturing into the butterfly house at Longleat. To make matters worse, it was really packed with people. So there I am, the worlds worst lepidopterophobic, hemmed into a room with dozens of huge, malevolent ugly fecking butterflies- all aiming at my face- and I have no way out.
I was panic stricken, welling up & really, really fecking tetchy. So I did the only thing I could do. I focussed on taking pictures.
I still hate butterflies. I did rather enjoy seeing the look on Mr W's face an hour later though, when we were surrounded by free-flying Egyptian Fruit Bats!
I like bats. :twisted:
I used to have a terrible phobia of Spiders. They made my life a misery. No, that's wrong. My reaction to them made my life a misery. Phobias have their basis in irrational fear. And irrational fear can have its basis in ignorance. So I thought that if I could remove the ignorance (we are often frightened by that which we don't know about) then I might remove the phobia.
So I started to study spiders. Their habits, their anatomy etc. It was difficult at first but I soon began to realise just what magnificent creatures they are. Now, I've gone in the completely opposite direction. I love 'em. My house is crawling with them. In my downstairs loo I've let a colony of Pholcus develop. There are 58 of them sharing a web that measures 3'x4'.
Not all of my visitors like using my downstairs loo!
I used to have a terrible phobia of Spiders. They made my life a misery. No, that's wrong. My reaction to them made my life a misery. Phobias have their basis in irrational fear. And irrational fear can have its basis in ignorance. So I thought that if I could remove the ignorance (we are often frightened by that which we don't know about) then I might remove the phobia.
So I started to study spiders. Their habits, their anatomy etc. It was difficult at first but I soon began to realise just what magnificent creatures they are. Now, I've gone in the completely opposite direction. I love 'em. My house is crawling with them. In my downstairs loo I've let a colony of Pholcus develop. There are 58 of them sharing a web that measures 3'x4'.
Not all of my visitors like using my downstairs loo!
Personally I think spiders are a godsend.
Given that my pooch is prone to visiting the back yard to let nature take its course, and me being the lazy git I am, I don't run out straight after with a scoop. This has the effect of drawing flies. Not long after the flies started a-coming the spiders moved in. Lots of little nests along the top edges of the windows (where the glass meets the beading).
Said spiders have an orgiastic feast every day and I don't get mithered by the bluebottles. So if I see a spider that comes inside I gently pick it up and return it to the general area of the nests.
I do this partly because it's a sort of symbiotic relationship and partly because I don't have the right to kill it just because a) I can b) it's an arachnid that is considered by some to be loathsome, and c) it frightens some people.
Imagine finding this in the bath!
and due to the weather i haven't been able to get it sorted yet but because of this I get a lot of LARGE brown garden spiders... big body... extremely long legs 
in my house. My cat has loads of fun when she finds one. :shock: 
) I managed to catch and release it though... 
