What's the biggest you've ever seen?

I wonder why they are in some areas and not others? I saw some whoppers when we were staying in Southampton recently, but here by the NW coast I've never seen any half the size.

When DH was a lad, his first job was working for BT (or whatever they were called in those days). He had to shin up telephone poles and check junction boxes. Once he was at the top of a particularly tall one, opened the box and an enormous spider launched itself at him! He fell several feet, but was saved by his harness. He's never been keen on spiders since and it is me who has to escort them outside!

I was told cats caught them, not ours!

My dogs are trained to catch and dispatch spiders!

My husband goes to Germany two or three times a year, one conference falls in September, so he’s not allowed to go, they all think it’s hilarious

Septemeber seems to be spider month.
I have not seen one that big OP . Thank goodness

OMG I am terrified of them,not frightened of wasps or any other creatures but the way they move makes me shriek,yesterday I was in the phone to my friend who is a lady gardener and whom I thought was above such nonsense let out a scream as there on the settee she had got up from 2 minutes earlier sat biggest brown spider .I think we need therapy !!

You do know that if you find one in the bath and wash it down the drain, it will climb back up and look at you through the overflow next time you’re having a bath ??

You know what Incy Wincy does - gets washed down the water spout but climbs up again!

I don't mind them, but couldn't touch one!

We have one called Hugh (meaning Huge!) Sounds just like yours H1964 I keep putting him out and he keeps coming back in to just sit in the sink all day? I live in an old cottage and seem to get loads of cobwebs, but very rarely do I actually see the spiders ... weird ....

I thought I was rescuing spiders by taking them outside. OH now tells me that the colder weather will kill them.

We’ve had a monster one in the bath for several days. Bit of a nuisance having to use the shower instead.

The Practice Manager I worked with took her phobia to the extreme. She was terrified that the spiders had laid eggs in the supply cupboards and the baby spiders would run amok! She was supposed to check the stock levels but couldn’t bring herself to do so.

????? I'm loving this! And can just imagine what was crossing a few minds when they read the title! ?????

They're all trying to get into the house at this time of year, not that it bothers me, I just catch them, (pint glass with paper slid under method) and take them as far down the garden as possible.
They're soon back though!
I always call them Freddie, from when my children were small.
I had one a few years ago who I couldn't catch as he would lurk near the ceiling. Arriving home in the dark, I put on the light and he was sat just above the switch, cringing.
I said, "Oh, sorry Freddie", and walked past him, then had a word with myself about being a bit crazy, talking to a spider.

SueDonim I'm 'out bush' too, not seen a big one yet but I have seen some huge ones previously.
I saw a cricket which was about 5" long today, luckily it was on the outside of the door!

I've got a bit better about them. When we lived in the Scottish Borders they were monsters. They always appeared if DH had gone to bed and I was still up watching TV. One night one that was huge strode across the carpet and I needed stilts to get out of the lounge to get to bed.

Since coming to Brittany (5 years ago today!) the spiders hold few fears. They're whispy, pathetic little things, it's the mice and stag beetles that are stalking me now ???

Oh dear lord, I wish I hadn't opened this thread. I'm currently sitting in a campervan in the middle of nowhere in Australia, which has, as I am sure you all know, the vilest, most poisonous, most loathsome creatures in the world, including those with an unnecessary eight legs!

And now, I've got to go outside in the dark to 'visit the facilities'. If I never post again on GN, farewell, dear friends!

MissAdventure

I feel your fear!

I absolutely hate spiders - petrified of them.

Years ago, working night shifts in a residential home, I had to go and fetch one of the residents to deal with a huge, grey, furry spider that was lurking in the kitchen sink.

They do seem to be at their biggest at this time of the year----fattening up for their winter hibernation, somewhere. They don't scurry across the floor, they march !

I call them all Harry after the advert from years ago. Harry the spider's " coming out party ".

Ditto Maggiemaybe!

You are all completely mad! How could you live in a house with those things lurking?

No Maggiemaybe
For a few months we had one living in our downstairs loo.
It was enormous, we never saw it during the day but at night when the light was put on it would be sitting on the waste pipe and would dash through the space where the pipe went into the cavity wall.
Visitors ,along with family , would say, “ I’m just going to see the spider”.
We never did give it a name.

Was I the only one lured in by the title?

Maybelle

I’d have fainted!

We have a big spider living in the garage. DH calls it Sidney.

I stroked it by accident one day !

Putting my hand on the light switch to turn the light on and it was sitting on the switch, wasn't tell you what I called it then . . .

Massive phobia for me, nervous wreck at this time of year. Just got my husband to do a search of the ladies loos at work, just in case!