arachnophobes everywhere

Does anyone remember a cartoon type thing called "Spider"? It was music based, (I''m probably not explaining this very well!) and absolutely enchanting!

It was all songs rather than speech, a lot of 12 string guitar, songs included "Spider in the bath", "Hedgehog Hunt", and others! I seem to remember that we had it on video (pre DVD) when Jack was small.

Please, someone else tell me that they remembered and liked this!

I'm only scary cos I'm hairy!
You can see some episodes on Youtube.

Try NLP- Neuro Linguistic Programming. A few years ago I went to a Yoga workshop weekend in Kent with DIL. The person leading it was also an NLP practitioner & at the end of one evening - when it was too early to go to bed -she did a phobia curing exercise on one of the other women there who was terrified of wasps following a horrific event in her early life. I just sat & listened-it was fascinating. At the end the leader of the group just threw in as an afterthought that some of us may find our phobias gone as well.
I never gave it another thought until a few weeks later when there was one of THEM in the bath & I calmly picked it up & genty put it out of the window.
Now I was absolutely terrified of spiders all my life- a really extreme case. I have no fear at all now-I cannot explain it but I went to some other courses with the same women & saw people cured of a variety of phobias. I did another one for fear of being out of my depth in water & that worked too.
It is quite amazing & usually only takes one session.
Might be worth a try.

That's a new one on us country types! They've only just caught up with hypnotherapy here.

Hypnotherapy is good! If carried out by qualified people. If they are doing it without individual support on a one to one basis it can be dangerous!
Mass hypnosis is not good unless in a training situation
with plenty of trained counselers there!

I knowf what I am talking about!
I am a trained medical hypnotherapist.

Have you tried hypnotising the spiders?
I also use the clear plastic tumbler and card method or if it is really scary, you use a broom, squish the spider into the bristles from the other end of the handle of course, take it outside and bang on the ground. If you are not sure the spider has run out, leave aforementioned broom outside for a few days/weeks/months and buy another one.

Jeni - my hypnotherapist has every credential possible - her problem, was me!

Not all people are willing consciously or unconsciousally to submit to hypnosis!
Unlike popular belief you can't be hypnotised against your will!

Completely right - apart from popular belief - perhaps that too is a myth and popular thought is far too wise.

graces mum no! But I can hypnotise a rabbit?

Reminds me of a joke about hypnosis - showman is demonstrating it to a full auditorium by swinging a watch chain in front of them all, saying "You are under my spell; you will do anything that I say." At that moment the watch caught on his sleeve and the showman said "Oh f***!"

Seriously though folks - hypnosis is a good therapeutic tool.

Going off at a tangent - that'll be age of course - the Rat Man came to check on progress under the garden shed and found one corpse which made him very happy, and we all went for a cup of tea and a biscuit. By the time he went we had heard all about local infestations of bed bugs, cockroaches and the like. There's a career path you don't hear too much about in school.