Never will I ever.……….

When I was a child, I wore my wellies to school but forgot to take my shoes to change into. No problem, my teacher told me I could just wear my wellies so I carried on and joined the orchestra at the front of the hall for assembly. As I put my trombone to my mouth, I felt an itch under my foot as if something was moving around. After trying to ignore it while I played my piece, I took my wellies off after we had finished while the Head was saying a prayer. I can still remember the telling off I got for screaming and throwing my wellie to the floor when I saw the enormous hairy spider crawling around inside!

Jane43 after my encounter last week with the spider in my bed it made me consider the bedside glass of water. I now have a tissue over it!

It was only a few days since I’d changed my bedlinen but I stripped all the bed again and vacuumed the bed and room thoroughly. The spider experience was unpleasant but tbh the rodent stories are sending my anxiety levels much higher.

I do normally try to put them outside but once I vacuumed one up with the handheld vacuum then watched as it popped out of the end of the hose.
We repeated the process 3 times until I finally picked it up and plonked it outside in the rain.

I always take a glass of water to bed at night. A while ago I read about somebody who took a drink from their glass of water only to find that they had a spider on their mouth. After that I switched to a bottle with a screw top.

I was told to vacuum up spiders.
Then I was awake, wondering if it might crawl out of the hose.

I got up and put the vacuum outside my door, and found it had been stolen when i got up.

Exactlt this[spider] happened to me a few weeks ago,
Pulled back the duvet to get into ned and a very large spider crept out
The night after , one was actually sat on my pillow
I always check the ceiling as usually if any I see one up there
I always check my bed now before getting in
Spiders on the ceiling I hoover up,and stuff tissue in the pipe,until I can get downstairs and let it out

Two cats. Mediterranean setting. I have stopped counting the live wildlife that I have found scattered about the house. Including a handful of geckos, cockroaches, bats, birds and cicadas. They are always alive and really difficult to catch. One gecko was never found. We have jumping spiders which can give a very nasty nip. We have a gecko that lives permanently in our roof garden. They are your best friend eating unwanted bugs.

I tried the old paper and glass technique on a big spider once.
The spider started jumping around in the glass, and I then realised I couldn't open the door as I didn't have a free hand...
I had to concentrate on opening the door with my elbow, whilst not allowing a gap for jumping Jack flash to escape.

I literally had sweat pouring into my eyes as I kept trying to open the door. Horrible!!!

Several years ago whilst on holiday in Florida a large cockroach dropped from the ceiling above me and down the top I was wearing. Instinctively I jumped to my feet screaming, ripped my top off and stood in the middle of the hotel bar with just my bra on.

And, I’m back! (For more?)
Not looking again ... it’s nearly my bedtime after all.
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In one MissA I carried one reading ... why??

I find myself drawn to reading these things, then I'm uneasy all evening.

I really, really do not like spiders. All those legs!!!

Oh god. I’ve read these and can’t unread them.
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I'd rather find a spider in the bed than cockroaches. I woke up after the first night in a rented apartment in Spain to find squashed cockroaches around/under me. ?

B****y h**l..wish hadn't read this..it isnt s****r season!!!.

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My poor daughter was beside herself this morning as a mouse joined her in the kitchen as she making breakfast. She’s lived in the house 17 yrs and never seen a mouse before so she was shocked to say the least. She’s going to get some humane traps.

Spiders are so sneaky appearing when we least expect them ?

Well, I really wish I hadn't read this! Bed check tonight.

There’ll be a few of us checking tonight!

I had a really restless night last week . Woke suddenly several times overnight and sat up for no particular reason.

When I got out of bed there was a large, dead very flat spider at shoulder level on the bed. I’m trying to erase from my mind that it might have crawled over my face a few times before I finally lay on it!

On a Gite holiday in France we got used to the large beetles,
but on the day we were leaving I stripped the bed - and a large centipede had been slumbering with us under the bottom sheet covering the mattress.

Funny you should say this OP, as when changing the sheets last week, I pulled off the duvet, and there at the bottom, where my feet had been was a good sized spider.It had obviously spent the night there warm and cosy.Since then, when making the bed, I have lifted and shaken the duvet !

I got a toad in the boot too, threw the boot across the room and a poor, rather dizzy toad ambled out.

Shina What on earth!! I thought the perishers had moved out until the autumn. Just think ...... only 8 - 9 months until spider time. Urgh11 Having a G&T to calm both of us.

I'm glad I got the toad and not the rat?