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Furniture Moving and ........ spiders

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Butternut Mon 25-Jun-12 16:23:56

I knew it was a mistake to get 'into' the corners for a bit of cleaning (not done very often I admit) but once started, decided to re-arrange my old furniture/ikea stuff. The spiders were perfectly happy lurking, but once disturbed bolted for undisturbed areas............ah well!

All re-arranged now, and spiders happily camping ..... grin

Anagram Wed 27-Jun-12 16:51:56

Of course, soop - I misjudged you! There must be some other explanation, then! grin

soop Wed 27-Jun-12 16:45:56

Anagram...hadn't read the Granny-porn until this afternoon. The "under-carriage" wasn't what you're thinking wink it was like a very rotund belly [much like mine] grin

Anagram Wed 27-Jun-12 16:11:44

Too much Granny-porn before bed, perhaps, soop? grin

soop Wed 27-Jun-12 15:57:01

Grief! It was bound to happen...had spider dream last night...the thing had a bulging "under-carriage" and a long nose shock confused hmm

soop Wed 27-Jun-12 14:35:46

grin

Anagram Tue 26-Jun-12 15:34:03

grin

jeni Tue 26-Jun-12 14:59:59

Are you sure they're spiders ?
Sound more like the occupants of grandads shed to me!

soop Tue 26-Jun-12 14:57:04

Our have eight legs and one to spare! shock

jeni Tue 26-Jun-12 14:51:24

What elseconfused

Annobel Tue 26-Jun-12 14:47:52

jeni and soop are you still talking about spiders? confused

jeni Tue 26-Jun-12 14:41:55

soop no, ours are the biggest!

glassortwo Tue 26-Jun-12 14:32:06

We had been up to the house at the weekend and stay in a caravan we have onsite. I was stripping the bed before we left for home,stripping the duvet off and out popped a humongous black fat bodied spider..... had it been in bed with us all night urghhhhhh shock

soop Tue 26-Jun-12 14:32:01

jeni Ours are much bigger!

Annobel Tue 26-Jun-12 14:26:54

jeni wink

jeni Tue 26-Jun-12 14:25:26

We have 8ft spiders round here!

soop Tue 26-Jun-12 14:20:37

I am terrified of large house spiders. Yell for mr soop to remove and deposit incomer in the garden. All started yonks ago. Boy at primary school opened large chest in farmyard. Hooked out ginormous spider with web on a long stick...and chased me until I was exhausted. Spider escaped. For me, it was a near-death experience. shock

Butternut Tue 26-Jun-12 14:02:43

grin gg - I've been out playing this morning - now it's Wimbledon. Perfect day so far!

absentgrana Tue 26-Jun-12 11:03:55

I like spiders if only because I don't like flies.

GoldenGran Tue 26-Jun-12 10:37:32

I can't stand them, not so bad on the skinny bodied skinny long legged ones but the fat bodied ones give me the heebie jeebies.shock Am allergic to cleaning when the sun shines, go out and play Butter sunshine

Yummygran Tue 26-Jun-12 10:05:48

OMG Hunt....I can't think of anything worse! lol. I have got a little better with spiders since having children, trying not to pass my fear onto them. It worked with my younger son, but my big roughy toughy firefighter elder son is as bad as me, if not worse, his wife has to remove them from the house haha.

Hunt Tue 26-Jun-12 09:45:02

If you want to live and thrive, let the spider stay alive. Spiders don't like the smell of horse chestnuts so you could leave some of those in the corners, I think you have to cut them up first( the conkers, not the spiders) A certain wonderful store makes a horse chestnut spray. I love spiders. Just remembered the Zoo does a ''learn to like spiders'' day. You get to hold a tarantular.

Butternut Mon 25-Jun-12 18:25:06

grin grin

Annobel Mon 25-Jun-12 18:18:13

Some of our Cheshire spiders wouldn't fit in the plughole!

Butternut Mon 25-Jun-12 18:13:18

Not down the plug hole, Anno? grin

Annobel Mon 25-Jun-12 18:10:08

After 5 years living and working in Africa, our native varieties don't alarm me in the slightest. Mind you, if I find one in the bath, it's out the window pretty fast.