Spiders

Conkers? I'm sure someone said to put a conker on burglar alarm sensors around the house which stops the spiders setting them off.

Someone replied that you can buy a spray in Lakeland Plastics with Eau De conker in it. (I am sure there are other suppliers)

Eau de Conker - really Hadn't thought of the Lakeland site - will have a look later today when I have finished dealing with the current set of interlopers!

It seems to be a bad year for conkers, but yes, they do work. At least since last year's ones finally went wrinkled or mouldy, there have been a lot more spiders in our bedroom. The tree next door is not doing its bit to supply more and I am getting paranoid about what is lurking behind the furniture (although not paranoid enough to move it and clean behind it .)

I had a quick look on the Lakeland site but they only have a spider catcher - I already catch them (admittedly with the vacuum cleaner!) I just want to stop them coming in. I know I could just close the window, but I like lots of fresh air - and I think they would still get in anyway.

No conker tress around me - anyone where can I get hold of some? (conkers, not trees!)

There must be other firms that do conker sprays, and I may have been wrong about Lakeland Plastics, but they seem to sell everything.

How about John Lewis?

They don't like mint, either. Polo's?

Yes, they ^^ are right, it was recommended to put conkers here and there to act as a deterrent.

We seem to have an abundance of quite large spiders at the moment, but Digby has proved himself to be spider catcher extrordinaire!

Was a bit of an incident the other evening though when he caught one on the hearth rug, took it to the other end of the sitting room to play with, where it escaped and ran under the sofa. Digby stood guard for ages, with his nose pressed as far under the sofa as it would go. I sat with my feet on the coffee table!

If they are spinning webs they are garden spiders, which don't tend to come indoors usually. Do you really have round spider webs indoors?
The indoor kind are the ones that hunt by running across the floor. No webs.
Those are the kind I normally have to rescue DH from. "They are our friends" I say piously, "they catch mozzies and flies!"
I was not so happy though when I met one of their Australian cousins - twice the size and the Usain Bolt of the spider world. In the bathroom, 2 a.m.

The ones down here are GINORMOUS!

Garden spiders particularly splendid at this time of year - big fat tummies and huge webs. The end, for them, is nigh.

yes, I do have webs (but not nice round ones - they tend to spread them out across the ceiling or along the walls!). I hoovered them all up this morning and have just checked and there are now two more! jeni is right we seem to have very large spiders - the sort my father used to say you could put a saddle on!

Charlotte's Web is a lovely children's book about a pig and a spider. Helps with the thinking kind thoughts about spiders thing ;)

Living in a rural area, spiders abound. What infuriates me is that when I do some cleaning I will run my feather duster everywhere the spiders websare - and by evening they have respun the wretched things.

We get the occasional very large spider which races all round the room and then disappears. No cats anymore [ deprived emoticon] so they run about unhindered. I was told that they look for mates in the autumn. Anyone know if it's true?

Found a website called Homecare which has a spray which deters them but doesn't harm them - will report how well it works (or not)

Funnily enough OH and I went conker hunting this morning and found only 4 on the ground under two large trees , they will have to do till I find some more, I do the same thing every Autumn put one in the corner of all the rooms and voila!! no spiders... it works for us.

I've not seen any conkers this year (no trees in immediate vicinity). I may have to mug a child playing conkers (if they do play that anymore)

Conker? They're all over our village car-park - well, on the side where there are horse-chestnut trees, anyway! Lovely shiny colour when they are so fresh...

In one of my previous houses we had a big spider that emerged from the hole in the wall where the TV cables came through. It used to stick its legs out and wave them about then retreat - presumably until we'd gone to bed! We called him Henry.

We have a spider in the sitting room..think s/he lives in the log basket but occasionally dashes across the carpet when we are relaxing in the evening. Webs are on lampshades but wispy ones not garden style webs.
In our old house we had a Charlotte who laid her eggs in the porch and we enjoyed that magical time when they hatched into what looked like a yellow ball but when you blew it gently it spread out into 100s of teeny spiders. Happened every year.

barrow come to Portishead usually plenty outside high down school.

Spiders....?

Cookers ![frown] emoticon.